Our national teaching awards

We are proud of our achievements and innovations in university teaching and learning. Recent awards show that Flinders offers some of the best university teaching in Australia.

ALTC Awards for University Teaching

Flinders has been recognised regularly in the national ALTC Awards for University Teaching since 2001. Most notably, in 2004 and 2006 we won the Prime Minister's Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year, the nation's top prize for tertiary teaching. This is an extraordinary accomplishment, and it places Flinders as one of Australia's pre-eminent universities.

Here is a summary of the ALTC Awards for University Teaching awarded to Flinders University staff:

2008

This year, the University received two of the 14 national ALTC Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning. Flinders was successful with its Postgraduate Critical Care Nursing Program and the Inspire Peer Mentoring Program. Read more..

The Flinders winners of 2008 ALTC Citations are: 

Professor Rosalind Murray-Harvey, Ms Kerry Bissaker, Ms Alissa Zhao and Ms Courtney Roe, for exemplary practice in developing and delivering programs that provide highly valued holistic educational experience for offshore students.
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Dr Karen Orr Vered, for innovation in student-centred learning and formative assessment practices in the field of screen studies.
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Dr Kathryn Schuller, for leading a cultural transformation in teaching and learning in the Faculty of Science and Engineering through her work with both colleagues and students.
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Associate Professor Mark Staniforth, for his leadership in building an integrated maritime archaeology program and for teaching excellence in using an innovative curriculum including work-integrated learning.
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Ms Lyn Wilkinson, for sustained excellence in the specialist area of literacy curriculum teaching that supports undergraduates as learners and inspires them as beginning teachers.

Summaries of ALTC Citations awarded to Flinders University staff 2006-2007

ALTC Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning: The Flinders University Parallel Rural and Community Curriculum Program received a program award in the Educational Partnership and Collaborations with Other Organisation program category.

ALTC Awards for Teaching Excellence: Professor Wendy Rogers won an individual award for her teaching in the biological sciences, health and related studies field.

2006

In 2006 only one university in Australia received more ALTC Awards for University Teaching than Flinders. Professor Iain Hay won the Prime Minister's Award for University Teacher of the Year in 2006 for his work in social sciences.

2004

Professor Mark Israel won the Prime Minister's Award for University Teacher of the Year in 2004.

2003

ALTC Awards for Teaching Excellence: Professor Lesley Cooper

2002

ALTC Awards for Teaching Excellence: Professor Craig Simmons

2001

In 2001 the Flinders Foundation of University Teaching program won the Institutional Award in recognition of our innovative and practical approach to provision of services that enhance the quality of teaching and learning.