Congratulations to all winners!
Teaching Excellence Awards 2015
Nominations for the awards were considered by a Selection Panel chaired by the President and Vice-Chancellor. Members of the Panel comprised Professor Ian Michael HOLLIDAY, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), Professor Grahame Tony BILBOW, Director of the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Mr Matthew Robert PRYOR, recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Teaching Award, Miss Arika HO Ka Yin, a student representative nominated by the Students’ Union and Professor CHNG Huang Hoon, the external member. The University is grateful to Professor Chng, Associate Provost (Undergraduate Education) of the National University of Singapore, for providing expert advice in situ during the final selection process.
The Panel was deeply impressed by the awardees’ dedication to their students, their creative and tireless efforts to make learning enjoyable and challenging, and the impact they have made on their students’ learning. The Panel was confident that all award recipients will continue to contribute significantly to the enhancement of teaching and learning at HKU.
Outstanding Teaching Award and Teaching Innovation Award Presentation Video by 
University Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor Joseph CHAN Cho Wai
Department of Politics and Public AdministrationJoseph regards teaching as a noble vocation, one that shapes the character, calibre, and future of an
individual. He teaches with a sense of mission and dedication, with the ultimate aspiration to teach
not only a subject but also a person. Read on
Professor Richard Anthony GLOFCHESKI
Department of LawSince joining the University of Hong Kong in 1989, Professor Rick GLOFCHESKI has distinguished
himself as an exemplary teacher in tort law, labour law, and higher education generally,
in particular as a pioneer of assessment for learning. Read on
Outstanding Teaching Award (OTA)
Dr CHUI Chun Kit
Department of Computer Science‘Empowering creators of our future’ is the teaching philosophy that guides my path in leading computing education at HKU. Read on
Ms Katherine Louise LYNCH
Department of LawI focus my energy and enthusiasm on active student-centred, problem-based, interdisciplinary, experiential and collaborative learning to help law students. Read on
Dr Julian Alexander TANNER
School of Biomedical SciencesBuilding bridges between disciplines: Creative research is most often transdisciplinary, and this also holds true for creative student learning. Read on
Miss Nicole Judith TAVARES
Faculty of EducationStudents are at the very heart of my teaching. My conviction is that every learner has the potential to excel if individual differences are well respected, attended to and catered for. Read on
Dr Marco WAN Man Ho
Department of LawMy teaching aims to cultivate skills in interdisciplinary analysis. Read on
Teaching Innovation Award (TIA)
Dr Michael George BOTELHO
Faculty of Dentistry
Recently I have extended the Communal Consultation videos to
include the capturing of clinical competency skills assessments or Key
Skills. These recordings reveal the dialogic exchange of students’ case
presentation before the skill performance and afterwards during their
self-evaluation. Students have found these invaluable in preparation
for the competency test in opening the black box of assessment and
in highlighting assessment standards through the use of exemplars.
Read on
- To read the full stories about the winners of the Outstanding Teacher Award, please download the Programme Book of the Award Presentation Ceremony for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Knowledge Exchange here.
- The Vice-Chancellor’s announcement of the winners of the Outstanding Teaching Award (OTA)
- Learn more about the Teaching Excellence Awards
- Learn more about the UGC Teaching Award