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2022 AAUT Career Achievement Award

28 October, 2022

This year the AAUT will continue to recognise individuals who have devoted their life making outstanding contributions to learning and teaching, with their achievements having a major influence and leaving an enduring legacy on the higher education sector. This will be recognised and celebrated through the Career Achievement Award. Nomination period: 31 Oct - 18 Nov via your institution Vice-Chancellor.

1997-2021 Australian University Teachers of the Year booklet

5 October, 2022

We're delighted to share the fourth edition of the 1997-2021 Australian University Teachers of the Year booklet. Thank you to all recipients for their profile contributions to this valuable resource for leaders and principal drivers in the Higher Education sector.

Phase 2 Nominations extended to Friday 23 September

9 September, 2022

The Awards Portal is now open for Institutional Contact Officers (ICO) to upload their nominees' submissions and photos. The closing date for Phase 2 Nominations has been extended to Friday 23 September. We encourage you to upload the submissions and photos as early as possible.

The Australian Awarded University Teachers’ Network (AAUTN) provides support, promotion and networking opportunities for Australia’s award winning teachers, in order to champion excellence in learning and teaching.

The Network is comprised of outstanding university educators, all of whom have received Australian University Teacher of the Year Awards, Awards for Teaching Excellence or Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

This website is designed to showcase and promote these teachers and provide them with an online resource for networking, professional development, mentoring and career support. It is also intended to be a resource for aspiring award applicants, providing information and advice on preparing for and developing an award application.

For more details on Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT), please visit AAUT-UA website.

Professor Katerina Teaiwa is a visionary teacher, mentor and leader, who has made an outstanding contribution to Pacific studies in Australia and globally. She contributes magnanimously to many aspects of Pacific affairs, climate change, the arts, and environmental justice, in and beyond the classroom. Katerina gives students opportunities to connect with Pacific Studies partners and networks to experience critical, engaged and Indigenous Pacific centred teaching and learning. She insists on cross cultural collaborations to foster students leadership capabilities, ensuring a creative, unique and meaningful experience. Students are encouraged to embark on a metaphorical voyaging canoe to gain a sense of the Pacific’s vast and diverse social and cultural dimensions where no one gets left behind. Through holistic methods, Katerina inspires students to explore Pacific histories, regionalism, politics, arts, media and environments to understand how each facet contributes to Pacific and Australian identities, pasts and futures. Katerina convened the innovative Pacific Islands field school 2010-2019 and the ANU Asia Pacific Week 2020 and 2021. Using diverse, and engaging approaches, activities and platforms, Katerina inspires both teachers and students to appreciate the knowledges, depths and strengths of Pacific peoples and islands representing some of the most resilient and vulnerable areas of the world. Katerina’s commitment to teaching and engaging with the Pacific can be described as one of Australia’s national prides.