The Department of Law and Criminology has achieved outstanding results in the College Teaching Prizes for 2021
Each year, Royal Holloway, University of London awards a series of teaching prizes to acknowledge and properly support the amazing work done by staff in the previous academic year.
Applications for this year’s prizes were submitted by teams and individuals, including teaching staff, postgraduate tutors, and learning, administrative and technical support staff, for their contribution to student learning within their professional roles.
The aims of the College Teaching Prize scheme are:
- to raise the profile of teaching and to underline the College's commitment to it by recognising initiatives which have had a beneficial impact on student learning;
- to share good practice by publicising initiatives which have the scope to influence support for student learning more generally.
The Department of Law and Criminology is very pleased to announce that some of their staff were awarded prizes under this scheme.
Dr. Rita D’Alton-Harrison (Senior Lecturer) - together with other researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London - were awarded an Excellence Team Prize for their case study on The Professional Self-Toolkit: Digital Innovation in Employability and Wellbeing. The award was granted on the basis that this is a key development of app-based technology to support inclusion and well-being but also with a fascinating developmental aspect. The project is a fascinating blend of creative thought, technology and research-informed pedagogy. More information on this project is available here.
Nicola Antoniou (Senior Lecturer) also won an Excellence Prize for her co-ordinating and leading role in the project run by the Legal Advice Centre: Empower, Enhance and Encourage. The student-led Legal Advice Centre which was established in January 2020 by the Director/Supervising Solicitor, Nicola Antoniou. It provides the student volunteers with an opportunity to 'learn by doing', providing free legal advice and information services to the local community and beyond. The student volunteers, under supervision, have been able to develop their practical legal skills beyond their legal textbooks, and help those whose community needs are often unmet. In addition to the students giving back to the local community, they have developed their practical legal research and writing skills, as well as interviewing clients, providing students the opportunity to gain meaningful understanding and make a real difference to our clients. This is the second prize won by the Legal Advice Centre in few days, as its volunteers won a prize in the Royal Holloway Volunteering Awards 2021 in the category “Outstanding Community Action Volunteer (Internal)”. Such prize is awarded to a student or group of students that have engaged with one of Royal Holloway Volunteering's internal community partners. More information about that prize is available here.
Last but not least, Dr. Alexander Gilder (Lecturer) and Nicola Antoniou (Senior Lecturer) - together with other researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London - were awarded a Team Commendation for their project on Inclusion, international collaboration, and peer learning: A student-created legal advice website on human rights and peacebuilding with the University of Hargeisa (Somaliland). This project sought to promote deep peer learning by supervising students creating an innovative legal advice website on human rights and peacebuilding in the Horn of Africa. More information is available here.
Congratulations to all our staff for these amazing achievements, as well as for their well-deserved recognition of the impact and importance of their work! We look forward to celebrating many more success stories in the near future!
