Education Awards 18 april 2024

The Education Awards recognise members of staff – both academics and those in Professional Services – who truly embody the spirit and values of the University.

This year we received over 600 nominations for the 2024 Sussex Education Awards, with more than 450 of those submitted by students. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students, Professor Kate O'Riordan chaired the panel of student reps, academic staff and professional services who reviewed all the submissions and chose the winners in each of the five categories.

The winners were announced on Thursday 18 April in a ceremony at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.

Our hosts for the night: Professor Kate O'Riordan, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students, and Professor Michael Luck, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost.
The ceremony started with the screening a short film about six inspiring tutors at Sussex, entitled For a Better World.

The Teaching to Disrupt award recognises academic staff who dare to be different in their approach to teaching. The winners are:

Dyuti Ailawadi (Global Studies)
David Berry (Media, Arts and Humanities)
Pablo Iglesias-Rodríguez (Law Politics and Sociology)
Warrick Roseboom (Engineering and Informatics)

Other awardees in this category include Elizabeth Mills (Global Studies), Lucila Newell (Global Studies) and Nat Arias (Global Studies), who were not able to collect their award in person.

The World Readiness award is a category that recognises those who help prepare and empower students for life after graduation. The winners are:

Carole Becker (Mathematical and Physical Sciences)
Luke Mitchell, Graziana di Pede, Kathryn Mountford and Luis Ponce Cuspinera. Helena Joyce was also awarded a World Readiness award as part of the team.
Careers and Entrepreneurship Life Sciences Curriculum Development Team
Paul McConnell (Media Arts and Humanities)
Helen Power-Hosking, Rebecca Nash (Estates and Facilities). Mirela Barbu (Business) was also awarded a World Readiness Award for her work in collaboration with Estates and Facilities.

The Better World Award is for staff who are actively engaged in efforts to make a positive impact in the local community – and wider world – in creative and entrepreneurial ways. The winners are:

Atusa Saeipour (Psychology)
Chemistry Technical staff, Life Sciences
Janine Thorogood (Student Experience)

The Learning Together award celebrates collaborations between staff and students working together on a research project or on redesigning the curriculum. The winners are:

The Informatics Peer Assisted Learning team, Engineering and Informatics
Doran Amos won the award with Apichaya Luathairattanametha, Kiran Lalli, Milly Rose-Wheatley, Nik Mylona, Soliana Markos and Sophie Thorne (Life Sciences).
Engineering and Design Mentors, Engineering and Informatics
Two students from Rebecca Prentice's module 'The Anthropology of Work and Labour' (Global Studies) collected the prize on behalf of the group.

The Inclusive Sussex Award recognises those members of staff who put into practice at least one of our five core values of kindness, integrity, inclusion, collaboration and courage, within the context of teaching and learning at Sussex. The winners are:

Victoria Marrache (Student Experience), who passed away earlier this year, was posthumously awarded an Inclusive Sussex Award. Victoria’s partner accepted the award on her behalf.
Amanda Griffiths (Counselling Wellbeing and Residential Life)
Ayomikun Idowu (Business School)
Ambra Moroncini (Media, Arts and Humanities)
Joanne Chee (Student Advice and Guidance)
Konstantinos Koumatos, Antoine Dahlqvist, Michael Taylor (Mathematical and Physical Sciences). James van Yperen was also awarded an Inclusive Sussex Award.
Sarah Ison (Student Experience)
Xiangming Tao (Tommy) (Business School)
Karen Okuefuna-Budd (Education and Social Work)

Other winners in this category who were not able to attend the ceremony include Emily Baker (Media, Arts and Humanities), Karis Jade Petty (Global Studies) and Rosie Jones (Student Experience).

Winners, nominees and attendees celebrating at the ACCA café after the ceremony
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2024 Sussex Education Awards