Swansea Excellence in Teaching and Student Support Awards 2026

Excellence in Learning and Teaching Award 2026

Are you taught by a truly innovative, excellent teacher? Someone who creates a supportive and personal learning experience that allows each student to excel and reach their potential?

This award is to recognise individual members of teaching staff - such as lecturers, technicians and tutors - who strive for and achieve teaching excellence. 

The awarding panel will consider, but is not limited to, the following criteria:

• Impact on students’ learning
• Supportiveness of students and their learning
• Enthusiasm for teaching, learning and subject
• Use of appropriate methods and/or innovation

The more information you can provide in your nomination, the better. Nominations that have depth and examples of excellent teaching will score more highly.

Before you nominate …

• If you haven’t already done so, check our list of previous winners to see which lecturers are not eligible this year – they can’t win if they’ve already won in the last 3 years
• Your lecturer will stand a better chance of winning if you can include specific information in your nomination. Check out our Nomination Advice page to find out how to produce a well-written nomination.

Excellence in Student Support Award 2026

Is there a staff member in a support role (i.e. non-teaching) or support team that has contributed significantly to your experience as a student and positively impacted your time at Swansea ?

This award is designed to recognise and celebrate those staff members, and what they do, by highlighting their work and the vital contribution they make to creating an excellent student experience here.

This could be anyone from the administrators in your department, to librarians, to IT support staff, to the technicians in your lab.

Please note: This is not an award for academic teaching staff. Any staff employed as lecturers / seminar leaders / tutors will be automatically removed from this award classification.

The awarding panel will consider, but is not limited to, the following criteria:

• Positive impact on students and / or the student experience
• Working above the expected level
• Excellence in “customer” service
• How, or why, this person or team has special qualities

The more information you can provide in your nomination, the better. Nominations that have depth and examples of excellence will score more highly.

Before you nominate...

• If you haven’t already done so, check the list of previous winners to see who is not eligible this year – they can’t win if they’ve already won in the last 3 years
• Your lecturer will stand a better chance of winning if you can include specific information in your nomination. Check out our Nomination Advice page to find out how to produce a well-written nomination.

Excellence in Team Teaching Award 2026

Are you taught by a truly innovative, excellent teaching team?

This can be a whole course team, or more than one lecturer collaborating on teaching a single module. A team who create a supportive and personal learning experience and encourages and allows each student to excel and reach their potential ?

This award is to recognise teams of teaching staff - such as lecturers, technicians and tutors - who strive for, and achieve teaching excellence.

The awarding panel will consider, but is not limited to, the following criteria:

• Effective teamwork and collaboration.
• Teams working together to support student learning.
• Opportunities for students to be involved in their own learning.
• High quality teaching and / or student support.

Please note: This is not an award for individual members of academic teaching staff. Any nominations made for individual members of staff will be automatically removed from this award classification.

The more information you can provide in your nomination, the better. Nominations that have depth and examples of excellent teaching and team-working will score more highly. Please remember to consider the judging criteria as you write your nomination.

Before you nominate...

• If you haven’t already done so, check our list of previous winners to see who is not eligible this year – they can’t win if they’ve already won in the last 3 years
• Your lecturer will stand a better chance of winning if you can include specific information in your nomination. Check out our Nomination Advice page to find out how to produce a well-written nomination.