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Monday, 5 November 2012

A senior diversity officer, a lawyer, a mathematician and an architect from UWA have won national Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.The award winners were:

Malcolm Fialho , for leadership and innovation in implementing a Universitywide cultural competence program to engage, sustain and deepen an actionorientated conversation around cultural diversity, racism and community harmony;

Assistant Professor Ambelin Kwaymullina (Law School), for excellence in teaching and innovative curriculum development in the area of Indigenous peoples and the law;

Winthrop Professor Cheryl Praeger , for developing the gold standard in mathematics research supervision and more than 30 years of nurturing a research community where undergraduate and postgraduate mathematics research flourishes. Professor Praeger is an ARC Federation Fellow and Director of the Centre for Mathematics of Symmetry and Computation; and

Winthrop Professor Richard Weller , Director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre, for sustained commitment to inspiring and enabling students to engage creatively and critically with complex design problems. The OLT took over the operations of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council last year and has reduced the number of citations awarded nationally.

Published in UWA News , 29 October 2012

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