The ALDinHE Award
The ALDinHE Annual Award was launched in 2020 to celebrate great practice and dedicated practitioners in the learning development community. The awards are open to everyone working in learning development.
Nominations are invited from colleagues by sending a brief (300 words) account of a practitioner’s contribution to learning development. Tell us how they have made a difference to students and we will celebrate their achievements.
The call for applications is now closed.
Congratulations to Angela Rhead, the winner of the 2023 ALDinHE Award.
Our previous winner and nominees can be found here for: 2022, 2021, 2020
Nomination guidelines:
- You can nominate a colleague at your own institution or a different one. You can nominate yourself!
- The nominations will be reviewed by a small group of our previous Award nominees
- The committee will be looking for a link to the five ALDinHE values and the contribution made to learning development
- We will publicly recognise all nominees and celebrate the shortlisted nominees.
- Neither you nor the person you are nominating are required to attend the conference
- Members of the ALDinHE Steering Group are not eligible for nomination
The LD Team Award
The LD Team Award was launched in 2023. Often our best work is achieved in collaboration with others, and a good team is far greater than the sum of its parts. We want to celebrate those who have gone further together, whether that relates to project outcomes, reach, or innovative working practices.
If you know or are part of a Learning Development team that deserves recognition, nominations are now open. Please send us 300 words outlining how this team has lived the ALDinHE values and made a difference to students, and we will celebrate their achievements at the conference and on our website.
The call for applications is now closed.
Congratulations to the Personal Learning Advice Team, Student Support Services; The Open University, the winner of the 2023 ALDinHE Team Award.
Nomination guidelines:
- You can nominate a team at another institution. You can nominate your own!
- The nominations will be reviewed by a small group of previous ALDinHE Award nominees
- The committee will be looking for a link to the five ALDinHE values and the contribution made to learning development
- We will publicly recognise all nominees and celebrate the shortlisted nominees by publishing on our website
- Neither you nor the team you are nominating are required to attend the conference
JLDHE Reviewer of the Year Awards
We are thrilled to announce that this year we are launching the annual JLDHE Reviewer of the Year Awards to recognise and celebrate excellence among our peer reviewers.
Every year we select two top reviewers who made exceptionally helpful contributions to the Journal in terms of the quantity, quality, and timeliness of their reviews, as well as their generosity in sharing expertise, their scholarly rigour, and their kindness.
While honouring only two colleagues in this way, we also want to acknowledge – as we do in our editorials – that many other reviewers regularly provide outstanding support for the Journal. We are immensely grateful for their hard work, for their time, and for helping us to foster this unique community of Learning Developers committed to excellence in research.
Our winners of the Reviewer of the Year Awards for 2022 are: Dr Robert Ping-Nan Chang and Dr Virna Rossi
Warm congratulations to both winners and a heartfelt thank you to all our reviewers for everything you do.
Dr Robert Ping-Nan Chang is an Academic Support Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. He has been working in the field of learning development since 2017, with all his relevant work experience at specialist HE institutions in London. He is a CeP holder and a member of the ALDinHE Events Group.
Reflection/statement:
In my opinion, learning developers are also competent reviewers, given our understanding about major issues of tutor feedback and our experience of supporting students’ academic literacy, especially academic writing. My first reviewing engagement with JLDHE dated back to 2019. I thoroughly enjoyed the process of reviewing each manuscript. Each reviewing task allowed me to access first-hand research which had not yet been published, as well as to learn about interesting and important topics I am always an expert of. More importantly, through writing, I was able to communicate with and share my ideas and observations with the authors and hopefully helped them to improve their papers. I feel really honoured to be selected for the JLDHE RoYA 2022.
Dr Virna Rossi is Associate Professor at Ravensbourne University London where she leads the PGCert. A passionate teacher since 1999, she has worked in all educational sectors and has been a teacher educator since 2009. Her research focuses around the challenges of implementing more inclusive learning design. She is the author of an innovative book: Rossi, V. (2023) Inclusive Learning Design in Higher Education. London: Routledge, and its companion website: https://inclusivelearningdesign.com/.
Reflection/statement:
Reviewing articles for the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education is such a pleasure – the whole process is very well set up and there is a long list of reasons why I would encourage others to get involved:
Reviewing develops my own writing and research as it makes me think critically about academic outputs.
Reviewing is a professional service and a way of ‘giving back’.
Reviewing provides ‘advanced’ access to emerging ideas and trends within T&L.
It is wonderful to see papers go through various iterations while progressively improving and knowing I have contributed to that enhancement which ultimately benefits very wide, global audiences.
Thank you for this very unexpected award. I am very honoured and hope to keep contributing to the journal.
Congratulations to ALDinHE members who received formal recognition of their specialist knowledge and practice in learning development in 2022-23.
The following members were awarded Certified Practitioners (CeP) and Certified Leading Practitioners (CeLP) in Learning Development:
CeP
- Bernard Aidoo
- Sarah Erskine
CeLP
Jenny Hillman
Kevin Brazant
