Celebrating excellence with a new nomination process
Back in 2022 the Students Association launched the Tutor Awards, an award dedicated to OU Tutors, decided by OU students.
This year, we introduced some exciting changes designed to improve the experience for everyone involved. For the first time in three years, nominations were submitted via the OU Students Association website, replacing the previous Microsoft Forms submission process. This change contributed to a streamlined, engaging and transparent nomination experience.
Alongside this change, we also made the judging criteria available during the nomination process based on feedback from participants of the 2023 awards. This change addressed the need for clearer guidelines on how the nominations would be judged and ensured everyone had a clear understanding of what the judges were looking for, such as: impact on progress, initiative and creativity and personal skills and attributes allowing nominators to better tailor their submissions.
Participation and nominations
Nominations for the 2024 awards opened in April and closed in May. In total, we received 155 nominations with 138 tutors nominated. Additionally, 54 nominators expressed an interest in volunteering to be part of a judging panel when they placed their nomination.
In June and July 2024, four panels of student volunteers met to consider the nominations and made a recommendation of one winner and one runner-up in each faculty. Each judging panel was chaired by a Student Leadership Team member.
2024 Tutor Award winners and runners-up
The moment you have been waiting for!
We are pleased to reveal the winners of the 2024 Tutor Awards, who the judges believed have gone above and beyond in their role as an OU tutor.
Choosing the winners this year was no easy task, with so many outstanding nominations, judges faced the difficult decision of narrowing down the finalists.
After careful consideration by our esteemed panel of judges, here are this year’s winners followed by our deserving runners-up:
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Dr Myrto Efstathiou
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Faculty of Business and Law: Sara Davies
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Dr Tim Van Peer
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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies: Claire Chambers
Students who nominated in the 2024 Tutor Awards are invited to the online awards ceremony on Friday 27 September. We would like to thank all students who nominated and volunteered in the 2024 Tutor Awards.
If you’d like to get involved with other volunteering events at the Students Association, see our current opportunities here.