{"id":1806,"date":"2015-10-30T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2015-10-30T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:19:54","slug":"outstanding-teaching-celebrated-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2015\/10\/30\/outstanding-teaching-celebrated-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Teaching Celebrated in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1805\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2015\/10\/Barbara-Morris-Prize-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1805 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2015\/10\/Barbara-Morris-Prize-2015-1024x781.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Morris Prize 2015\" width=\"474\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2015\/10\/Barbara-Morris-Prize-2015-1024x781.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2015\/10\/Barbara-Morris-Prize-2015-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winners of the 2015 Barbara Morris Prize.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The University\u2019s annual Teaching Prizes recognise the standard and levels of teaching for which it has an outstanding reputation. And for 2015 Staff from the faculties of Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences received their prizes from Vice-Chancellor Professor <em>Dame Julia Goodfellow<\/em>. The ceremony in October was hosted by <em>Professor John Baldock<\/em>, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning.<\/p>\n<p>The recipients of the <em><strong>2015<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Barbara Morris Prize <\/strong><\/em>for learning support, include<em>\u00a0<strong>Laura<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Garc\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Blancas<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>(Centre for Journalism)<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>who was recognised for her outstanding work as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, particularly in relation to the provision of opportunities for students to experience authentic journalistic practice. The Medway-based interprofessional team consisting of\u00a0<strong><em>Louise Frith<\/em> (School of Music &amp; Fine Art\/SLAS), <em>Frank Walker<\/em> and <em>Moses<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>Malekia<\/em> (School of Music &amp; Fine Art), <em>Gerard McGill<\/em> and the <em>Wellbeing Team<\/em>, and <em>Sally Apokis<\/em> (Medway Chaplain) <\/strong>received the award for their collaborative project developing meditation resources and participative events to help students combat stress.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this innovative project, see the following related stories:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1703\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1703<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1310\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1310<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1265\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=1265<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/kentlife\/7338\/outstanding-teaching-celebrated-at-kent\">http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/kentlife\/7338\/outstanding-teaching-celebrated-at-kent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Click the video link to find out more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2015\/09\/Meditation-Mix-2015.mov\">Meditation Mix 2015<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The University\u2019s annual Teaching Prizes recognise the standard and levels of teaching for which it has an outstanding reputation. And for 2015 Staff from the faculties of Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences received their prizes from Vice-Chancellor Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow. The ceremony in October was hosted by Professor John Baldock, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Teaching and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2015\/10\/30\/outstanding-teaching-celebrated-in-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Outstanding Teaching Celebrated in 2015<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81427,24626,1252,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}