Bristol Teaching Awards
The Bristol Teaching Awards (BTAs) recognise and celebrate individual staff and teams (both academic and professional services) who have make an outstanding contribution to teaching, the provision of support for students' learning, and/or enhance the student learning experience.
Award categories and criteria
Nominations for the 2025 Bristol Teaching Awards will open from the 17th March until midnight on the 6th April. Award categories include:
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Empowering Student Academic Voices Award
An award for someone who encourages and listens to student feedback - ensuring students have a voice in decision making.
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Inspiring and Innovative Teaching Award
An award for someone who inspires students and their innovative teaching style fosters an active and inclusive learning environment. Postgraduate students who teach can be nominated in this award category.
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Inspiring and Innovative Teaching Team Award
An award for a team who inspires students through their innovative teaching and fosters an active and inclusive learning environment.
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Outstanding Dissertation Support Award
An award for someone who enables undergraduate or postgraduate taught students to develop as researchers by providing excellent dissertation advice, guidance and support.
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Outstanding Personal Tutoring/Academic Support Award
An award for someone who provides students with the opportunity to thrive both academically and personally through offering them dedicated time and space to develop themselves.
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Outstanding Research Supervision Award
An award for someone who encourages and supports postgraduate research supervisees, by providing advice and guidance that enables students to succeed in their research.
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Outstanding Support Award
An award for someone who enables excellent teaching, learning and/or pastoral care through their high-quality advice, guidance and support.
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Outstanding Support Team Award
An award for a team who enables excellent teaching, learning and/or pastoral care through high quality advice, guidance and support.
Nomination principles
- Nominations are anonymous
- Self-nominations are not eligible
- Winners from the past 3 years are not eligible for shortlisting
- Duplicate nominations will be ignored
- Read Guidance for nominators for more info
Previous winners
See how winners felt about being given a Bristol Teaching Award.