You can nominate in one, two or all three categories. There is a nomination period for Teaching Block 1 (nominations are open between November 2026 and January 2027) and there is a nomination period for Teaching Block 2 (nominations are open between March 2027 and May 2027).
The Excellence in Learning and Teaching Award (ELTA) is an award for individual teachers, including support staff who teach. You may make up to two nominations of individual teachers, but if you want to make more than one nomination, they must be one from teaching block 1 and one from teaching block 2. If you’re only making one nomination, it can be from either.
The Excellence in Student Support Award (ESSA) is awarded to individual members of support staff, or entire support teams. You may nominate one individual or team for this award.
The Excellence in Team Teaching Award (ETTA) is awarded to teams of teachers, including support staff who teach. You may make up to two nominations of teaching teams, but if you want to make more than one nomination, they must be one from teaching block 1 and one from teaching block 2. If you’re only making one nomination, it can be from either.
Please Note: If an individual or team has won in the last three years, they cannot win again this year. Please check the list of previous winners before placing your nominations.
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:
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 …
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:
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...
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:
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...
