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Teaching Awards and Recognition

Faculty Teaching Awards
Professor Gregory Hancock, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and IT recognised excellence in teaching in the School of IT. In 2008 Dr Irena Koprinska was presented a Faculty Teaching Award outstanding teaching, including new curriculum design. Dr Tara Murphy and Dr James Curran were also recognised for their innovative Advanced first year unit, INFO1903 Informatics.

CORE Teaching Award
Associate Professor Judy Kay was awarded the 2008 CORE Teaching Award. The annual award is presented by the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE).

The award recognises Judy’s long term contributions to teaching, including her initiatives in undergraduate teaching, such as the mentor program, e-Learning and other novel teaching approaches.

The award also recognises excellence in postgraduate supervision, which is reflected in her collaborative work with students, and acknowledges her contribution to scholarship in teaching, which has influenced other computer science educators.

IBM Faculty award
Associate Professor Joseph Davis was the only Australian academic to win an IBM Faculty Award in 2008.

This highly competitive worldwide program fosters collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and IBM and promotes courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM.

Winners of the IBM Faculty Award have an outstanding reputation for contributions in their field.

Carrick Institute grant
Associate Professor Joseph Davis is also participating in a project funded by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. The Institute is Australia’s key government agency responsible for promoting and supporting strategic change that enhances learning and teaching in Australian universities. Funding from the Institute is extremely competitive.

The grant Associate Professor Davis is working on is titled “Curriculum renewal in postgraduate information technology education: a response to growing service sector dominance”. It is a 2-year, multi-institutional grant for $218,500 involving the University of Sydney, UNSW, University of Queensland, and University of Melbourne.

Federal funding for teaching
In 2009 the University of Sydney received over $5 million from the federal govenments Learning and Teaching Performance fund.