Distinguished Collaborative Education Excellence Fellowship

The Distinguished Collaborative Education Excellence Fellowship is awarded to teams who have a track record of supporting learning in HE and can demonstrate a team-based initiative that demonstrates highly effective problem solving or innovation that benefited from the team approach and has led to positive impact on L&T. In particular, the collaboration will be directly related to the Principles that underpin and the Qualities that feature Ulster's learning, teaching and the student experience.

The purpose of the award is to recognise, reward and celebrate staff teams who support learning excellence and to create a proactive learning community within Ulster.

Up to three awards are normally available and the award of £1500 to successful teams should be used to support the recipients’ CPD in teaching/learning support.

Distinguished Collaborative Education Excellence Fellows will be expected to share their experience and practice with colleagues at Ulster supported by the Learning Enhancement Directorate.

The Assessment Panel will be looking for the team’s ability to:

• Demonstrate Collaborative Excellence: Show evidence of a team-based initiative that demonstrates highly effective problem solving or innovation that benefited from the team approach and has led to positive impact on L&T and aligns to Ulster LTSE principles and qualities.
• Demonstrate evidence of: a clear set of aims, objectives and rationale for the team’s approach and how the group constitutes a team and developed as a team, working collaboratively and how collaborative working has been an advantage, demonstration of direct involvement of students with the team.
• Support the claim with independent evidence of how the collaborative work has enhanced student learning, such as testimonials (particularly from key stakeholders e.g., students, colleagues), supporting data and/or evidence of effectiveness and impact – (evidence should be integrated throughout the claim and contributes to the word count.)
• Demonstrate clearly how the initiative adds something novel, enhancing, or innovative to supporting learners in their area.
• Be underpinned by relevant reference to the professional knowledge base in HE learner support practice.
• Include reflection on or evidence of how their intervention has begun to have impact within the broader L&T community that is beyond the team’s local area.