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We’re delighted to announce that this year we have received a total of 12 submissions for the Developing Excellent Practice Awards, recognising and celebrating outstanding staff development individuals or teams.
The SDF Developing Excellent Practice Award reflects the 2024 Festival of Learning and Development’s overarching theme of Transform, Empower and Balance: Moving towards an adaptive mindset in times of disruption.
We’d like to thank the nominated institutions for their submissions. Find out a bit more about them.
De Montfort University, Leicester
- Project Name: BIM in Leicester 2025 conference(s) and BIM in Series Charity
- Name of nominee(s): Victoria Farrow, Associate Professor, Subject Lead in Architecture
- Project Name Architecture Plus
- Name of nominee(s): Victoria Farrow, Associate Professor and Subject Lead in Architecture & Dr Alona Martinez Perez, Senior Lecturer
Durham University
- Project Name: SharePoint Training (Best practice, Use it Safely)le Institution approach
- Name of nominee(s): Nick Turner – Organisational Development Business Partner. Nomination is for the Digital Capabilities Project Team
King’s College London
- Project Name: Developing a thriving staff community at King’s
- Name of nominee(s): Kirti Swift – Deputy Director Organisational Development, 21 team members ranging from L&D leads, staff experience & engagement leads, digital skill trainers and our apprenticeship team.
University of Southampton
- Project Name: Career & Skills Development map
- Name of nominee(s): Lucy Marr, Library Learning & Development Lead
Ravensbourne University London
- Project Name: Creating an impactful Teaching and Learning ecosystem around the PGCert provision
- Name of nominee(s): Virna Rossi – Associate professor and PGCert Course Leader. The Director of Teaching and Learning and the learning technologists.
Leeds Beckett University
- Project Name: “Beyond the poster on a wall” – Connecting Colleagues to our University Values
- Name of nominee(s): Georgina Wood – Organisational Development Advisor. The Values Project team comprised members from HR and our Marketing service. Members of HR include Heather Paver, Executive Director of Human Resources, Sarah Swales – Deputy Director (HR), Cate Querin – Learning and Organisational Development Advisor, Libby Page – Business Partner, Sarah Davies – HR Adviser plus colleagues in Marketing (names can be provided if required).
Imperial College London
- Project Name: A net that works – A collaborate approach supporting new academics to become excellent leaders
- Name of nominee(s): Stefanie Edler-Wollstein, Consultant Early Career Researcher Institute, Jenna Collinson, Project Manager
Warwick University
- Project Name: University of Warwick Internal Coaching Scheme (ICS)
- Name of nominee(s): Pippa Simpson Learning and Development Business Partner, Anna Chapman Leadership and Management Development Manager, Kevin Hamer Learning and Development Business Partner
- Project Name: Operational Coaching Skills for Managers
- Name of nominee(s): Kevin Hamer – Learning and Development Business Partner, Anna Chapman (Leadership Development Manager); Pippa Simpson (L&D Business Partner)
University of Huddersfield
- Project Name: Women Advancing Together – a leadership programme for women
- Name of nominee(s): Helen Connor, People and organisational Development Manager, Christian McGrath, People and Organisational Development Manager; Dr. Georgina Blakely, Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning, Human and Health Sciences
The University of Liverpool
- Project Name: The Prosper PI Network
- Name of nominee(s): James Reynolds, Communications Manager, Prosper, Fiona McBride, Senior Researcher Developer; Stefania Silvestri, Researcher Developer; Candice Booth, Researcher Development Coordinator; Kerry McElroy, Stakeholder Development Manager
Presentation to the winners will be made on Tuesday 12th November at 2:00 pm during Charles Knight’s keynote at the SDF Festival of Learning and Development.
Dr. Rossana Gent, SDF Chair