Carrick Awards: AMC academics rewarded for excellence in teaching and learning

Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching (CAAUT)

Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning:

• Australian Maritime College
  Dr Giles Thomas, Mr Paul Furness

• For the creation of team-based projects, integrated with industry partners, for the teaching of ship design.

AMC congratulates Dr Giles Thomas and Paul Furness on their achievement.

The Carrick Awards

The Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching are highly competitive and involve an intensive selection process to assess the achievements of applicants.

They are awarded in eight categories:

• Five discipline categories;
• Biological Sciences, Health and Related Studies (including Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Medicine, Nursing etc);
• Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies;
• Humanities and the Arts;
• Physical Sciences and Related Studies (including Architecture, Building and Planning, Engineering, Computing and Information Science);
• Social Sciences (including Education);
• Indigenous Education, for receipt of the Neville Bonner Award/s;
• Early Career; and
• Priority Area

Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning - 210 awards of $10,000

Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning recognise and reward the diverse contributions that individuals and teams make to the quality of student learning. The 'Carrick Citations' are granted to people who have made a significant contribution to the quality of student learning in a specific area of responsibility over a sustained period, whether they are academic staff, general staff, sessional staff or institutional associates. People who are awarded Carrick Citations are widely recognised for their achievements within the nominating institution and have received strong institutional endorsement.

The full list of 2007 Carrick Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning was released on Friday 10 August, and can be found on the Carrick Institute site: http://www.carrickinstitute.edu.au/