Grier Palmer wins Warwick Teaching Excellence Award

The Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) are given annually to faculty across the whole of the University. Each year, five members of staff are given an Award, with a further five commended. Grier Palmer, Assistant Dean, Teaching and Learning and Principal Teaching Fellow is one of this year's Award winners. WBS Professorial Teaching Fellow Peter Corvi was a WATE winner last year.
Grier holds an MBA from WBS, and in 2005 he was the first Warwick academic to gain the University's Masters in Higher Education. He currently holds an Institute for Advanced Teaching & Learning (IATL) Academic Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Studies, which he is using to lead a multi project initiative 'Working Capital', together with Professor Jonothon Neelands, to boost creativity in teaching at WBS.
He commented, "Of course I'm delighted to be a WATE winner, especially set against so many innovative and committed colleagues across the University - the panel evaluated my work as 'of an exceptional standard'. My collaboration for WBS with the Capital and Reinvention Centres, the Teaching Grid, and now IATL, which was my concept originally, is reflected also in the Award, both working out from WBS and bringing into it innovative ideas for our teachers and students."
Grier will be presented with his award in the Graduation Ceremony in July, when most of his personal tutees over the last four years will be graduating at the same time. After the ceremony, he is off to Harvard Business School where he has been selected to join a week-long Global Colloquium on 'Participant centred learning'.
The link below gives details of other winners across the University.