SACAs 2014 - Winners Announced!

The ceremony for the 2014 Student Academic Choice Awards - SACAs - was held in the Union Concert Hall on the evening of Thursday 15 May.

Over 140 students and staff attended the ceremony, which celebrated the hard work & achievements of the 200+ members of staff and graduate teaching assistants who received nominations.

Eight prizes are awarded on the night, with the winner, selected by an all-student panel, announced live on stage.

For the first time, this year's SACAs featured video testimonials from the students who nominated the shortlisted candidates.

The winners were as follows:

Best Supervision
Prof Mark Sephton , Earth Science & Engineering

Best Tutoring
Dr James Wilton-Ely , Chemistry

Best Graduate Teaching Assistant
Mario D'Auria, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Best Teaching for Undergraduates
Prof Omar Matar , Chemical Engineering

Best Support Staff
Victor Boddy, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Best Innovation
Dr David Dye, Materials

Best Feedback
Dr Jane Saffell , Department of Medicine

Best Teaching for Postgraduates
Dr Mike Tennant , Centre for Environmental Policy

Closing the event, Prof James Stirling, Provost of Imperial College London, said "I'm glad that the Student Academic Choice Awards have become a firm part of the Imperial calendar, it represents a great example of how Imperial College Union is amplifying the student voice at the College."

Thank you to all students nominators and staff nominees, and congratulations to our SACAs 2014 winners!

 

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The Student Academic Choice Awards enable students to celebrate and reward excellence and innovation amongst Imperial’s academic and professional staff. We believe teaching and supervision are skills of equal worth and value to research, and we aim to build a community in which academics, staff and students all feel empowered to bring forth new ideas.

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