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Teaching in physical education, criminology, paediatric rheumatology, and engineering were among those recognised at the 2009 UWA Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

Kerry Smith from the School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health won a UWA Award for Excellence in Teaching for sustained commitment to excellence in work-related learning, clinical training and remedial physical education.

Neil Morgan from the Law School also won a UWA Award for Excellence in Teaching for inspiring law and criminology students across cultures, backgrounds and levels of study through scholarship, fun and real world relevance.

The UWA Award for Excellence in Teaching (Innovation) went to Prudence Manners (School of Paediatrics and Child Health,)for developing paediatric rheumatology teaching over decades, culminating in an online pioneering program achieving virtual clinical teaching, suitable for clinical teaching in the twenty-first century.

The UWA Award for Excellence in Teaching (Postgraduate Teaching) was awarded to David Plowman (Business School) for sustained and energetic innovations in student learning at the discipline, university and wider community levels.

Angus Tavner and Lynn Kirkham from the UWA Motorsport Program won the UWA Award for Excellence in Teaching (Program). The Motorsport team, part of the School of Mechanical Engineering, designs and builds a small racing-car to take part in an international student engineering competition, Formula SAE.

The program gives students the opportunity to engage with a real large-scale engineering project, allowing them to develop their technical, time management and interpersonal skills, as well as developing experience in organising and running an engineering enterprise.  This experience would not normally form part of their degree programs.

The UWA Awards for Excellence in Teaching were introduced in 2008. These awards are competitive University-wide and are selected from the UWA nominees for the Australian Learning and Teaching (ALTC) Awards.

They acknowledge UWA's outstanding teachers and support staff, and complement the faculty-based awards.

Award categories are selected each year and may include such areas as postgraduate supervision, early career, team/program, and teaching and learning support.

In addition, the 2008 Faculty Teaching Award Winners were announced at the ceremony last week. The Faculty Teaching Awards are a way of recognising and rewarding outstanding teaching within the Faculty, whether this be on campus, in research, in practice or in placements. It is an opportunity to acknowledge those teachers who make a real difference to the learning experience of students.