Innovation in Education and Teaching Awards

On Thursday, the Faculty gathered to celebrate the first recipients of the Innovation in Education and Teaching Awards (4 September 2015).

The Faculty Executive launched this new series of annual staff awards to recognise innovation, giving up to seven awards, each year, to individual staff members or teams with prizes up to £1000.

The winners were:

Supporting learning in practice Award
Mentor Matters (the Faculty’s termly newsletter) – Caroline Hunter, Irene Zeller and Sarah Curr

Research-led education Award
Voicing the Silence: an animated educational resource on the maternity care experiences of women who were sexually abused in childhood – Dr Elsa Montgomery

Teaching and learning Award
Inter-professional Pain Education – Dr Emma Briggs

Technology-enhanced learning Award
Keeping patients safe from medication errors – Riaz Toorabally, Elena Hernandez-Martin and Philip Blake.

Assessment Award
An electronic practice assessment document for pre-registration nursing – Angela Parry, Ehsan Khan and Philip Blake.

Service user/patient involvement in education Award
Annual student-led International Day of the Midwife Conference – Sophie French

Professor Stephen Tee, the Faculty’s Dean of Education said: “Florence Nightingale was a great innovator therefore; it is only right that we celebrate the innovators within our Faculty who focus on new and original not just on ‘business as usual’.

“Congratulations to all our winners for contributing to the Faculty, so that we continue to position ourselves a leading pre-eminent nursing and midwifery institution, in the UK and internationally.”