UWI/Guardian Life 'Premium' Teaching Awards 2004

Feature Speaker: Prof. Graham Gibbs

Topic: Assessment

Graham Gibbs is Director of the Institute for the Advancement of University Learning at Oxford University. He was previously Professor and Director of the Centre for Higher Education Practice at the Open University and Professor and Director of the Oxford Centre for Staff Development at Oxford Brookes University. He is the founder of the International Improving Student learning Symposium and the International Consortium for Educational Development in Higher Education. He has published widely and been involved in many national and international scale teaching improvement initiatives. He is best known for his work on study skills, teaching large classes, training of university teachers and the development of university strategies to improve teaching. His current work concerns the way assessment dominates students’ study lives and how to change assessment so as to support learning well.

Judges

Chief Judge, Dr. Dale Roy is Executive Director, Centre for Leadership in learning, McMaster University, Canada. His association with the Centre dates from 1979, first as an Educational Consultant and later as Director. He is particularly interested in helping lecturers, in documenting good teaching and in teacher through inquiry.  Dr. Roy was Coordinator of the 3M Teaching Fellowships Program for 15 years. This programme has been heralded as a unique project by universities in New Zealand and the United Kingdom precisely because of the joint cooperation between academia and the corporate world.

Prof. Stuart Bunt is a Professorial Fellow in Teaching and Learning at the University of Western Australia. He is Scientific Director of SymbioticA, the first art and biology lab situated in a science department. Prof. Bunt has consulted and lectured on the nexus between Art/Science and Technology, exhibited in Arts Electronica and collaborated or helped produce a number of biotech art pieces revolving around emergent technologies in the biosciences. He is also Senator at the University of Western Australia, Chief Executive of a biomedical software spin off company, Paradigm Diagnositcs, and founder of the Image Acquisition and Analysis Facility, UWA. Prof. Bunt is also President, UWA Academic Staff Association, Vice President, National Tertiary Education Union, UWA branch and Member of the National Research and Teaching committee of the NTEU. Prof. Bunt has had numerous papers on nerve regeneration published in international journals. Along with other scientists, Dr. Bunt is continuing his research in finding a cure for spinal and other central nervous system injuries and is motivated by the hope of getting people out of wheel-chairs.

Dr. Rakesh Bhanot is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) at Coventry University. He is mainly responsible for contributing to the postgraduate programme of courses in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and works with the University Centre for Lifelong Learning as a Curriculum Development Advisor. Dr. Bhanot has reviewed educational development programmes and courses in a number of UK universities and is External Examiner for the University of Nottingham and University College, Worcester. He has presented papers, delivered keynote address, run workshops/seminars and participated in conferences in over 25 countries.  This honorary lifetime member of the All Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE) also served as the Staff Development Advisor to the National Disability Team.