President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Key information

There are five award categories: Academic Staff, New Lecturers/Tutors (with less than 3 years teaching experience) Teams, Academic Support Staff and Doctoral Supervision.
Staff nominated under the Academic staff category may, after an initial evaluation of nominations, be invited to augment their nomination(s) by completing a Google Form.
Staff nominated under the New Lecturers/Tutors category will also be invited to augment their nomination(s) by completing a Google Form.
Teams nominated will be asked to complete a Google Form.
A nomination can be made for an individual member of staff or a team.
An individual or team may be nominated more than once.
Nominations can be made by an individual member of DCU staff, DCU students, DCU alumni, or any combination of these.
DCU students cannot nominate in the Team category.
Nominations will be considerably strengthened if they include student testimonials.
Evaluations will be conducted by a panel comprised of a subgroup as identified above.
Awards for Teaching Excellence will be made in the form of a teaching enhancement grant, to be used to further enhance the winner's teaching practice and/or student learning: Academic Staff - €2,500, New Lecturers/Tutors - €1,000, Team Award - €1,000, Academic Support Staff - €1,000, Doctoral Supervision - €1,000.
Winners will also receive a commemorative President's Awards medal.
Awards will be presented by the University President at an awards ceremony.