The 2015 SACA Shortlists - revealed!

The Student Academic Choice Awards - or SACAs for short - are Imperial College Union's flagship event for empowering students to recognise, reward and celebrate excellence amongst College staff.

This year, all the SACA records were smashed - 586 students sent in 808 SACA nominations were received, for 407 members of staff - an increase of two-thirds on the 2014 SACAs. Nominations were received from every part of College, including every faculty, department and campus.

Since nominations closed, panels of student Academic Representatives have been sifting through the 80,000 words of nominations sent in by students - and they have selected the six best nominees in each category, who are now the 2015 SACAs Shortlistees.

The SACAs are there for students to say thanks to the best lecturers, demonstrators, administrators, technicians and researchers they encounter at Imperial - and we make sure every member of staff who is nominated gets recognition.

  • All nominees receive the famous SACAs Mug, (now a must-have fashion accessory for academics!)
  • All Shortlistees also win a framed certificate
  • The eight SACAs Winners receive a trophy on the night.

All 48 Shortlistees will be invited to the 2015 SACAs Ceremony, held in the Union Building on the evening of 11 May, where the winner of each category will be revealed!

Full details of each Shortlistee can be found on the pages for each SACA Category.

Did your SACA Nominee make the 2015 Shortlist? Spread the word - using the #icuSACAs hashtag!

And the 2015 SACAs Shortlistees are...

 

Best Feedback

Dr Panagiotis Angeloudis
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Professor Barbara Bain
Department of Medicine
Jason Bennett
Department of Medicine
Jeremy Fernando
Imperial College Business School
Dr Paul Mitcheson
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Dr Soraia Pimenta
Mechanical Engineering

 

Best Innovation

Professor John de Mello
Chemistry
Dr David Dye
Materials
Dr Joshua Edel
Chemistry
Dr Elizabeth Hauke
Horizons & Science Communication
Dr Andrew Horsfield
Materials
Professor Sebastian van Strien
Mathematics

 

Best Teaching for Undergraduates

Dr Steven Cook
Life Sciences
Professor Amparo Galindo
Chemical Engineering
Dr Steve Koury
Medicine
Liam Madden
Bioengineering
Dr Timothy Simpson
Life Sciences
Professor Ramon Vilar
Chemistry

 

Best Graduate Teaching Assistant

Giulia Ferretti
Chemical Engineering
Niall Jackson
Chemistry
Paul Judge
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Andris Piebalgs
Chemical Engineering
Claudia Schulz
Computing
Sara Tallett-Williams
Civil & Environmental Engineering
 

Best Support Staff

Fiona Bibby
Department of Medicine
Lisa Cheung
Physics
Dr Tom Ellis
Bioengineering
Inkeri Hibbins
Mathematics
Anup Jethwa
Northwick Park
Dr Andreas Kogelbauer
Chemical Engineering

 

Best Tutoring

Dr Nick Brooks
Chemistry
Dr Tom Ellis
Bioengineering
Dr Colin Hale
Chemical Engineering
Martin Holloway
Bioengineering
Dr Sohag Saleh
School of Medicine
Professor Pietro Spanu
Life Sciences

 

Best Teaching for Postgraduates

Dr Filippos Filippidis
School of Public Health
Professor Jonathan Haskel
Imperial College Business School
Dr Michael Jones
Department of Medicine
Gareth Mitchell
Science Communication
Dr Ambrus Pal
Mathematics
Dr Edward Segal
Mathematics
 

Best Supervision

Dr Christopher Cordier
Chemistry
Dr Luca di Mare
Mechanical Engineering
Professor EJ Milner-Gulland
Life Sciences
Dr John Pinney
Life Sciences
Professor Alan Spivey
Chemistry
Dr Robert Vollum
Civil & Environmental Engineering
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