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Martin Price - Perth College |
Perth College UHI lecturer,
Director of the Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth College UHI has been voted the most innovative lecturer award by students at UHI, the prospective University of the Highlands and Islands.
Voters credited Professor Martin Price with his “very impressive interactive content”, with one stating: “Martin certainly helped me to achieve an "A" with distinction for this module.”
Martin, Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development, is one of seven winners in the first ever teaching awards organised by UHISA, the UHI students’ association, recognising most inspiring lecturer; best dissertation supervisor; greatest expertise in video conferencing delivery; most engaging online tutor; best assessment feedback; best student advisor, and most innovative lecturer.
Martin has been with Perth College UHI since 2000, and lives in Perth. He was previously at University of Oxford and specialises in mountain people and their environments. He said: "I am honoured to have won this award, and am very grateful to my students who took the time and effort to nominate me for it.
“The module that I teach, on Environmental and Societal Issues in Mountain Areas, in the MSc Managing Sustainable Mountain Development, is the only module I have ever developed and taught. As my career has mainly been as a researcher than an educator, I took an on-line course in on-line education from the Institute of Education in London before developing the module. I tried to take the best of the approaches I learned then and apply them to my 'mountain module' - and I am glad that my students appreciate the result."
UHISA officer Lindsay Mitchell helped to judge the teaching awards and said Martin was a worthy winner of his category. “We have some excellent tutors in the UHI network and this scheme was a great way for students to give them the recognition they deserve.”
The MSc Managing Sustainable Mountain Development was also recognised in 2009 as an innovative course by Universities Scotland.
More than 8,000 students are studying on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, or undertaking postgraduate research, with UHI through a partnership of colleges, learning and research centres across the Highlands and Islands.
UHI is one of eight higher education institutions in Scotland working with the Higher Education Academy and the National Union of Students (NUS) to introduce student-led teaching awards.