Promotions to Professor
Laura Bear (Anthropology)
Dr Bear was awarded for contribution across courses in the department (including large core courses AN100 and AN400), the development of innovative approaches to teaching anthropology (such as filmed resources for developing ethnographic analytical skills and ‘flipped’ lecture elements) and consistent delivery of high quality teaching, as reflected in student feedback and attainment across this range of courses.
Riccardo Crescenzi (Geography and Environment)
Dr Crescenzi was awarded for contribution across the department (such as on GY100) to core course teaching and as MSc programme director, a PhD supervisor and a mentor to colleagues. Also for his development of links with alumni, which enabled the founding of a forum through which students can explore practitioner applications of substantive taught content.
Christian Hilber (Geography and Enviornment)
Dr Hilber was awarded for contribution on courses across the MSc REEF programme, including the proposal and successful delivery of a new course (GY458). Dr Hilber has also served as MSc programme director, acted as a mentor to junior colleagues established a ‘Real Estate Club’ for students to apply their course learning in a more informal environment and introduced new approaches to course teaching.
Lea Ypi (Government)
Dr Ypi was awarded for contribution across courses in the department and beyond (LSE100, the Guerrilla Lecture series), the development of departmental provision for PhD students, academic leadership (teaching committee service and research seminar redesign and integration into PhD programme) and for developing an extremely successful approach to interactive lecturing.
Promotions to Associate Professor
Julia Boettcher (Mathematics)
Dr Boettcher was awarded for successfully developing departmental provision to encompass coding (through the redesign of MA407) and successful delivery of the course to diverse student groups (in terms of differential knowledge and experiences of coding and of mathematics).
Neil Cummins (Economic History)
Dr Cummins was awarded for the imaginative use of primary source materials to develop his students’ analytical skills as Economic Historians, contribution to the redesign of EH238, EH438 and EH465 and the production of excellent teaching materials for these courses.
Devika Hovell (Law)
Dr Hovell was awarded for developing a mixed seminar / lecture model of teaching that combines disciplinary tradition (Socratic method / ‘mini-moots’) with newer approaches (case / problem based sessions incorporating alumni and practitioner contributions) and for delivering consistently high quality teaching.
Thomas Reader (Social Psychology)
Dr Reader was awarded for contribution across a wide range of courses in the department, his term as programme director for the MSc Organisational Behaviour, during which the programme was redesigned to include new approaches to large seminar teaching and assessment methods that combine rigour with developing practitioner skills and awareness.
Paul Stock (International History)
Dr Stock was awarded for innovative use of primary source documents to develop analytical skills associated with the discipline and for the successful development of departmental provision in terms of both period (19th Century) and area (social history).