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UWA's Professor Geoff Meyer has been awarded a 2009 Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Teaching Fellowship.

Vice-Chancellor Alan Robson congratulated Professor Meyer on his achievement, saying the ALTC Teaching Fellowships were highly competitive and very prestigious.

"For a staff member at The University of Western Australia to be awarded such a Fellowship is an outstanding result," Robson said.

"The award is a significant recognition of Professor Meyer’s teaching reputation and it reflects highly on the University. It is particularly apt that Professor Meyer’s ALTC Teaching Fellowship is announced at this time, being the UWA Teaching and Learning Month."

Professor Meyer, who works in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, has a number of research interests, including ovarian function and steroidogenesis, morphological studies, and corpus luteum development and vascularisation, as well as developing appropriate teaching and assessment strategies for online education

The ALTC itself says: “Teaching Fellowships are awarded to undertake discipline-based or inter-disciplinary fellowship activities that promote excellence in learning and teaching.

"Teaching Fellows are prominent scholars and educators in their disciplinary fields recognised by their home institutions for their capacity to make significant contributions to educational leadership into the future. [They] undertake a program of activities with the goal of enhancing disciplinary or inter-disciplinary teaching and learning within their institution and beyond.”

UWA Teaching and Learning Month is about discovering, discussing, pursuing, celebrating and valuing excellence in teaching and learning.