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Awards Ceremonies

18 June, 2021

We are delighted that the following institutions have hosted a joint state-based ceremony to celebrate the successful citation recipients in 2019-2020.

Date	State/s	Host by	Venue /Virtual Event
16 March 2021	WA	Murdoch University (For 2020 recipients) *WA Ceremony photo link*	Fraser Restaurant, Kings park
3 June 2021	SA/NT	SANTPEN (Joint ceremony for 2019 and 2020 recipients) *SA Ceremony photo link*	University of South Australia
7 June 2021	QLD	The University of Queensland (Joint ceremony for 2019 and 2020 recipients) *QLD Ceremony photo link*	Brisbane Customs House
17 June 2021	NSW/ACT	Australian Catholic University (Joint ceremony for 2019 and 2020 recipients) *NSW/ACT Ceremony video link*	Virtual Event

Associate Professor Jack Wang's Award Acceptance Video Speech

15 June, 2021

Watch Associate Professor Jack Wang’s speech for accepting 2020 Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year at Universities Australian Conference 2021

2021 AAUT Briefing Session: Creating Winning Applications

7 June, 2021

We are delighted to have Prof Shelley Kinash, Director Advancement of L&T from USQ as our guest speaker for this week AAUT Briefing session on ‘Creating winning applications.’ Presenting on Thu 10 June.

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.

Associate Professor Jack Wang challenges his students to become citizen scientists in the digital age, who learn through creating, analysing, and communicating scientific findings to the masses. Jack embeds disease outbreak scenarios into his teaching, which are brought to life through interactive classroom discussions, audio-visual stimulus, and hands-on Undergraduate Research Experiences. His students are involved in innovative blended learning activities - they participate in crowd-sourced citizen science research projects to discover novel therapeutics against global pandemics and create videos and podcasts to explain their original findings to the general public. To deliver individualised feedback for these multimedia-orientated assessment tasks, Jack developed a new learning analytics platform, which identified consistent gaps in students’ technological and digital literacy. He is a strong advocate for student digital equity, and serves on an interdisciplinary panel promoting sector-wide support for digital literacy. To further this cause, in 2015 Jack launched the Communication Ambassador Program – a nationwide initiative providing multimedia and communication training for early-career scientists. Jack’s work has been funded by faculty, institutional, and external grants, and disseminated through scholarly publications, invited presentations, and peer-mentoring of academics through Advance HE. Jack Wang is a recognised leader in Science Education, and has transformed learning for thousands of graduates.