The Graduate School is delighted to learn that Professor Nicola Shaughnessy (School of Arts) has been nominated as Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year in the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2018.  Professor Shaughnessy was nominated by the Graduate School, with valuable help from Michelle Ulyatt (Corporate Communications), after she won our prize for a Research Degree Supervisor this summer.

Since her appointment to Kent in 1999, Professor Shaughnessy has nurtured several generations of neurodiverse postgraduate students to success through creative and interdisciplinary approaches. This includes offering twice-monthly shorter tutorials and making use of Skype, interactive and open space technologies. Over the years, she has also developed a network of postgraduates working across disciplines and institutions on autism and gender. This online community offers cross-disciplinary research exchange and peer support.