A SENIOR lecturer from Redditch has been shortlisted for a prestigious award for his innovative teaching style.
Dr David Lewis, who teaches neuroscience and scientific ethics at the University of Leeds, is in the final four of the the Society of Biology’s Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award.
On receiving news of being shortlisted, Dr Lewis said: “I’m delighted to be recognised by the society for my innovative teaching and public engagement activities.”
The Society of Biology offers the annual award to teachers who have shown an outstanding contribution to higher education.
The scheme rewards lecturers who have developed innovative and inspirational teaching methods, as well as having supported colleagues and undertaken professional development.
The winner, announced on May 6, receives the Ed Wood Memorial Prize of £1,000 to spend as they wish, a year's subscription to an Oxford University Press journal, and one year's free membership of the Society of Biology.
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