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The Teaching Excellence Awards
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Message from the Vice Chancellor
Presenting our 2023 Teaching Excellence Award recipients.
It is very important to me that we reflect on and recognise outstanding contributions to teaching and learning at Southern Cross. This connects in a very deep way to our purpose as an institution and has profound and ongoing impacts on the lives of our students.
These Awards celebrate our academics’ commitment, achievement and contribution to an exceptional student learning experience. These colleagues, as you will see below, have made a genuine and very positive impact on the University.
They are, in every way, outstanding and inspiring educators.
Professor Tyrone Carlin
Our teachers
Southern Cross University academics are committed to an inspiring student experience. Our teachers make a big impact on students, fostering their yearning for knowing more and a focus on learning for life. They are curriculum innovators, educators and scholars of teaching.
Outstanding Teaching Awards - 2023
The Outstanding Teaching Excellence Awards are presented to current continuing, fixed-term and casual academic staff from each Faculty and College who are recognised in the top 5% and 10% of teachers based on student feedback. These outstanding teachers have received consistently high student feedback across the previous 12 months.
Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples
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SCU College
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Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
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Faculty of Education
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Faculty of Health
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Faculty of Science and Engineering
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The Hotel School (Educational Partnerships Board)
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Clare du Plessis
Teaching Associate
The Hotel School
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Dr Mo Kader
Teaching Associate
The Hotel School
Inspiring Educators - 2023
Nominated by the University’s Deans, these select awards of recognition go to our colleagues who stand out and inspire others at Southern Cross for the quality and impact of their teaching.
Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples
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Dr Kelly Menzel
Senior Lecturer
Over the course of 2023 Kelly Menzel has consistently delivered high-quality teaching across the Gnibi units she has engaged with. Kelly engages with Gnibi’s high-volume units and as her feedback indicates, Kelly is consistent with her support. While maintaining her engagement with the students, Kelly maintains her research outputs. As a dedicated member of the Gnibi team, Kelly has received the highest feedback scores for 2023.
SCU College
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Dr Rikki Quinn
Lecturer (Teaching Scholar)
Rikki is nominated for her commitment to consistently look for new ways to inspire and motivate her students to engage in maths and science across the Preparing for Success Program and diploma units. She implements innovative curriculum and pedagogy initiatives that students recognise as highly valuable to their learning experience, and as indicated by student feedback.
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Ros Walpole
Associate Lecturer (Teaching Scholar)
Ros teaches across English Language, Preparing for Success and Diploma programs in the College highlighting her ability to effectively engage with students from diverse backgrounds and at varying stages in their learning journey at SCU. Ros is an enthusiastic, creative teacher committed to using innovative pedagogy to motivate and inspire her students and colleagues.
Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
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Mekhala Adhikari Egodowale
Teaching Associate
Mekhala successfully teaches business technology and entrepreneurship at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Her student feedback reports commend her content knowledge, communication skills and enthusiasm for teaching. She consistently motivates and inspires her students. She shows initiative and has improved the management discipline's curriculum, assessment, and teaching standards.
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Linda Wasiela
Teaching Associate
Linda successfully teaches aviation management, economics and entrepreneurship at the undergraduate level. Her student feedback shows that she utilises various methods to motivate students and can simplify complex topics. Students report this approach as increasing their engagement with their studies and leading to academic success.
Faculty of Education
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Dr Lisa Siegel
Associate Lecturer
Lisa is an inspiring educator and consistently delivers on the Faculty’s vision to disrupt and transform education. Lisa transformed EDUC1006 from a low-performing unit (first offering) to a high-performing unit (second and subsequent offerings) as evidenced by the unit/teaching feedback data. Lisa transformed EDUC1006 by building the theory-practice nexus in this 1st year unit, ensuring that students critically engage with transdisciplinarity in education.
Faculty of Health
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Dr Lily Guo
Lecturer
Lily is an outstanding educator who has provided an exceptional first year student experience by transforming the teaching and learning of anatomy and physiology. Her unwavering dedication, passion, empathetic support and leadership has resulted in improved student confidence, success and satisfaction, in a foundation unit. Lily has also provided exceptional leadership to the teaching team.
Faculty of Science and Engineering
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Dr Vinh Bui
Lecturer
Vinh consistently invigorates the IT curriculum by embracing new technologies, such as GenAI, H5P and Puzzle-based learning. Vinh has won the most thought-provoking award in 2021 SOLT for using VR in teaching technical units.
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Dr Adam Canning
Lecturer
Adam brings together excellent foundations in Science, Indigenous Knowledge and alternative farming practices in a holistic manner to nurture transformative learning. This will the future of agricultural practice and farmscape management. Adam has uplifted units to better adapt units to the SCU model, enhance quality & increase student satisfaction.