LSE Class Teacher Awards

Department

Winners

Accounting

Chris Constantinou and David Trodden

“…a committed, hardworking and enthusiastic teacher, approachable and with a passion for educating and looking after students. No other person takes as much care to understand and address the needs of our students and is able to make accounting issues comprehensible for all students… more than happy to commit time to students who need more attention and assistance and demonstrates a collegial outlook, always pleased to take on extra classes or help his colleagues at short notice”

Anthropology

Anjana Bala and Imani Strong

Highly Commended: Lars Aaberg, Dominique Dillabough-Lefebvre, Angela Giattino, Anishka Gheewala-Lohiya, Tierra McMahon and Daniel Oldfield 

Economic History

Nick Fitzhenry

Highly Commended: Andres Guiot-Isaac, William Mitchell and Sabine Schneider 

Economics

Sreevidya Ayyar, Thomas Glinnan, Animesh Jayant, Marta Morando, Enrico Turri, Sarah Winton, Cecilia Wood and Alfred Ruoxi Zhang

Highly Commended: Julio Brandao-Roll, Felix Iglhaut, Hugo Reichardt, Emiliano Rinaldi and Jack Shannon 

European Institute

Vesna Popovski

Highly Commended: Cristóbal Garibay-Petersen, Sarah Gerwens, Jacob Lypp and Marta Lorimer

Finance

Bijan Aghdasi, Yang Guo, Xinchen Ma, Mark Morley, Oliver Ashtari Tafti, Yuan Tian, Song Xiao, Zheyuan Yang and Jianing Yuan

Gender

Nour Almazidi, Milo Miller, Sharmila Parmanand and Senel Wanniarachchi

Highly Commended: Hasret Cetinkaya, Niharika Pandit and Maria Rashid 

“In her seminars, she walked students through different concepts that were discussed in lectures, deepening their understanding by encouraging them to apply these concepts to their everyday life…. students found the seminars not only engaging, but also a  ‘safe and inclusive environment’ in which the students were eager to share ideas and discuss class content and materials.”

Geography and Environment

William Mitchell and Line Relisieux

Highly Commended: Cornelia Agyenim-Boateng, Laura Antona, Antonio Avila, Pooya Ghoddousi, Yoonai Han, Ran Wei and Yang Zheng

Government

Nick Lewis, Nadia Ma and Christine Stednitz

“one of the most accomplished teachers and well-deserving of an award. He is very well prepared for classes, responsive to students and creative in his design of class activities. Students also rate him very highly. They almost without exception give him the highest of ratings in satisfaction and communication. Several note that he is the best teacher they have had in their time at the LSE!”

Health Policy

Valentina Iemmi

International Development

Karen Iversen, Stephanie Levy, Jen Melvin, Hassan Ould Moctar and Greta Seibel

International History

Agis Papageorgiou

Highly Commended: Nailya Shamgunova 

International Relations

Kira Huju, Sophie Kaldor and Eva Sørensen

“I was impressed with the environment she had created in the classroom, which was highly conducive to the class conversation. She also clearly established a great rapport with her students and is willing to go the extra mile for them. Her student feedback scores and comments confirm this: the students were clearly impressed by her teaching. And, we need to remember, this is her first teaching experience!”

Language Centre

Florian Fischer

Highly Commended: Stephanie Beltrando and Margarita Rois-Quiroga

Law

Shukri Bin-Ahmad-Shahizam and Valeria Ruis Perez

Highly Commended: Sebastian Lewis, Grace Mary Sweeney and Sara Jorge Nogueira Silva

LSE100 

Rian Mulcahy and Emma Taylor

Management

Aaron Aujla, Raquel Campos Gallego, Alexandra Kirienko and Ledia Pelivani

Highly Commended: Sazid Ahmad, Lazaros-Antonios Chatzilazarou, Lisa Di Natale, Naireet Ghosh, Francesco Gualdi, Magda Hercheui, Luis Emilio Lastra Gil, Antti Lyyra, Georgia Meyer, Atrina Oraee, Malavika Raghavan, Sharon Raj and Luc Schneider

Mathematics

Erin Hales, Calum Robson and Niccolò Salvatori

Highly Commended: Ivan Solonenko, Yueying Sun and Tony Whelan

“Clarity of explanation and energy… she can be easily approached and she is happy to explain any questions in class. She is also always looking for ways to include students in class discussions."

Media and Communications

Alessandro Castellini and Claire Forbes

Highly Commended: Suzanne Temwa Gondwe Harris, Afroditi Koulaxi and Philipp Seuferling 

Methodology

Michael Ganslmeier, Ruxandra Serban and Alexander Stoffel

Highly Commended: Eileen Alexander, Patrick Gildersleve and Anne-Laure Mahe

“He truly elevated the teaching this year… generous with his time, energy, and intellect, helping to guide the students through challenging material… he entirely re-designed and then led exceptional seminars that were met with great enthusiasm by the students. The seminars were truly a highlight of the class, and were simultaneously innovative and pedagogically sound… he deserves recognition!”

Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Charles Sherwood

Highly Commended: Andreas Achen, Dmitry Ananyev, Lea Bourguignon, Eva Read, Lorenzo Sartori and Adam Wingårdh

“a superb teacher: a natural. He communicates ideas and concepts clearly and effectively. He offers nuanced and vivid ways of framing the content, which demonstrate a huge amount of knowledge of the field, combined with a great sense of how to explain that knowledge to undergraduates. One particularly impressive aspect of his teaching is that he is able to relate the content to other areas outside of philosophy (including everyday life), helping to show the wider relevance and significance of the content, and making it feel more accessible."

Psychological and Behavioural Science

Deema Awad, Atrina Oraee and Ana Sabherwal

Highly Commended: Nils Mallock and Giulia Serino

School of Public Policy

Tim Dobermann, Omar Hammoud Gallego, Tom Monk, Frank Muci, Canishk Naik, Ekaterina Oparina and Jay Seetharaman

Highly Commended: Daniel Brieba, Johannes Matt, Pol Simpson and Caterina Soto-Vieira

Social Policy

Thelma Obiakor and Eugenia Bilbao-Goyoaga Zabala

“She makes the content engaging for students through interactive activities like crosswords, taboo games, quizzes, and debates… showing students how the content of the course goes beyond academic life and links to their everyday life by relating class content to podcasts, songs, films, images, or new articles… diligently prepared her classes each week, drawing on the course archive, but adding her own twists.”

Sociology

Limichi Okamoto and Matt Reynolds

Highly Commended: Daniela Perez Aguilar, David Kampmann and Yasmine Kherfi 

Statistics

Zezhun Chen, Yudong Chen, Sahoko Ishida, Anastasia Kakou, Anica Kostic, Mingwei Lin, Xinyi Liu, Tao Ma, Xuzhi Yang and Kaifang Zhou

Highly Commended: Qin Fang and Shakeel Gavioli-Akilagun

Department

Winners

Accounting

Ebrahim Mohamed

Charlotte Bartels

Anthropology

Thom Herzmark

Rebecca Bowers

Imani Strong

Mayanka Mukherji

Highly Commended: Fuad Musallam, Elena Liber, Yathukulan Yogarajah 

Economic History

Yitong Nora Qiu

Mario Cuenda-Garcia

Highly Commended: Stefania Galli, Mina Ishizu, Safya Morshed

Economics

Tom Glinnan

Evgeniya Kudinova

Gabriel Leite Mariante

Miguel Fajardo-Steinhauser

David Ren

Ragvir Sabharwal

Chiara Sotis

Yannick Schindler

Highly Commended: Ina Drouven, Ghassane Benmir, Ignacio Banares Sanchez, Jack Thiemel, Chloé De Meulenaer, Ananya Kotia

European Institute

Eray Çaylı

Highly Commended: Cristóbal Garibay-Petersen, Joseph Ganderson

Finance

Oliver Ashtari Tafti

Elizaveta Smorodenkova

Xinchen Ma

Mark Morley

Nicolas Garrido Sureda

Christopher Greiner

Gender

Milo Bettocchi

Highly Commended: Niharika Pandit

Geography and Environment

Manuel Linsenmeier

Iris Lim

Sanchayan Banerjee

Highly Commended: Margarida Bandeira Morais, Zsofia Zador, Julien Picard, Melissa Weihmayer, Elisabetta Pietrostefani, Bea Jambrina Canseco, Lukas Makovsky, Meredith Whitten, Louise Bernard, Yarden Manelzon, Jonathan Mille, Till Meissner, Gabrielle Piazza, Ina Drouven, Lindiwe Rennert, Kavita Dattani

Government

Christine Stedtnitz

Luis Bosshart

Highly Commended: Federico Fuchs, Ceren Asli Cinar

Health Policy

Valentina Iemmi

International Development

Madhuri Agarwal

Ian Madison

International History

Katherine Arnold

Highly Commended: Rowena Binti Abdul Razak, Giorgios Giannakopoulos

International Relations

Irene Morlino, Sophie Rosenberg, Elisa Gambino

Highly Commended: Jacklyn Majnemer, Meg O'Mahony, Agnes Yu, Chris Deacon

Language Centre

Roser Martinez-Sanchez

Law

Hannah Gibbs

Jacob Van De Beeten

Highly Commended: Diana Filatova, Ayesha Riaz, Sara Jorge Nogueira Silva, Shingira Masanzu, Sarah Court-Brown

LSE100 

Dan Frost

Catherine Duxbury

Management

Hugo Esteves-Vilares

Maximillian Heitmayer

Dzhamilya Nigmatulina

Highly Commended: Aurelie Cnop-Nielsen, Claire Heard, Karin King, Natalia Krasnikova, Luis Emilio Lastra-Gil, Fabrizio Leone, Antti Lyyra, William Matcham, Milena Tekeste

Mathematics

Rowland Bennett

Erin Hales

Laurence O'Toole

Niccolò Salvatori

Aled Williams

Highly Commended: Amedeo Sgueglia, Ruilan Wang, Tony Whelan

Media and Communications

Suzanne Temwa Gondwe Harris

Pablo Morales

Kate Gilchrist

Highly Commended: Claire Forbes, Alessandro Castellini

Methodology

Oriol Bosch

Highly Commended: Poorvi Iyer, Ellen Watts, Ruxandra Serban, Patrick Gildersleve, Ivan Deschenaux, Cohen Simpson, Marion Lieutaud, Kate Summers

Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Charles Beasley

Ze-ev Goldschmidt

Highly Commended: Bele Wollesen, Andrea Petrou, Fabian Beigang, Amedeo Robiolio

Psychological and Behavioural Science

Adam Davidson

Highly Commended: Maximillian Heitmayer, Deema Awad, Lea Ruesch

School of Public Policy

Polly Simpson

Rebecca Cruz

Highly Commended: Martina Zanella, Tim Dobermann

Social Policy

Diwakar Kishore

Highly Commended: Chiara De Poli, Sam Mohun-Himmelweit, Iva Tasseva, Lucy Bryant

Sociology

Victoria Gronwald

Highly Commended: Sacha Hilhorst, Will Kendall, Jack McGinn, Rémy-Paulin Twahirwa

Statistics

Anastasia Kakou

Gabriel Wallin

Camilo Cárdenas Hurtado

Highly Commended: Gianluca Giudice, Stephen Bell

Department

Winners

Accounting

Gulnaz Khamidullina

Finia Kuhlmann

Anthropology

Jasikiran Bhogal

Leo Hopkinson

Economic History

 Hanzhi Deng

Highly Commended: Alex Green, Nora Qiu

Economics

Daniel Albuquerque

Alix Bonargent

Arnoud Dyevre

Shadi Farahzadi

David Ren

Jack Shannon

Aditya Soenarjo

Highly Commended: Fabio Bertolotti, Thomas Brzustowski, Jakub Drabik, Michelle Rao, Hugo Henriques De Almeida Esteves Vilares, 

European Institute

Cristobal Garibay-Petersen

Matilde Rosina

Highly Commended: Valerie Belu, Jimena Valdez  

Gender Studies

Emma Spruce

Highly Commended: Milo Bettocchi

Geography and Environment

Sanchayan Banerjee

Lucrecia Bertelli

Kavita Dattani

Nora Sylvander

Highly Commended: Kate Dawson, Lois Liao, Felicia Liu, Martina Manara, Yarden Manelzon, Davide Rigo, Megan Ryburn, Matthias Tager, Melissa Weihmayer

Government

Max Afnan

Wang Leung Ting

Highly Commended: Luis Bosshart, Christine Stedtnitz

Health Policy

Laia Maynou-Pujolras

Highly Commended: Valentina Iemmi, Ilias Kyriopoulos

International Development

Eyob Gebremariam

Geoff Goodwin

Greta Seibel

Highly Commended: Anna Bridel, Alessandra Radicati

International History

 Molly Avery

Highly Commended: Alex Mayhew, Anwesha Roy

International Relations

Seebal Aboudounya

Pilar Elizalde

Ellen Holtmaat

Tristen Naylor

Highly Commended: Shruti Balaji, Sarah Bertrand, Emmanuelle Blance, David Eichert, Jonathan Hall, Emma Saint, Alireza Shams Lahijani, Enrike van Wingerden

Language Centre

Simon Mathews

Fang Pan

Highly Commended: Liijing Shi 

Law

Ilan Gafni

Highly Commended: Benjamin Goh, Andrea Peripoli, Ayesha Riaz, Francesca Uberti

Management

Antonin De Laever

Elisa Pannini

Mathematics

Siri Kouletsis

Asuka Kumon

Niccolo Salvatori

Amedeo Sgueglia

Aled Williams

Highly Commended: Laurence O'Toole, Kieran Ryan 

Media and Communications

Meghanne Barker

Highly Commended: Alessandro Castellini, Kate Gilchrist, Junyoung Yu

Methodology

Marnie Howlett

Poorvi Iyer

Highly Commended: Edward Ademolu, Sian Brooke, Daniele Fanelli, Martin Lukac, Ruxandra Serban, Kate Summers, Joshua Townsley, Ellen Watts  

Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Dmitry Ananyev

Cecily Whitely

Psychological and Behavioural Science

Miriam Tresh

Highly Commended: Frederic Basso, Matteo Galizzi

School of Public Policy

Dzhamilya Nigmatulina

Highly Commended: Nicholas Chanut, Tim Dobermann, Martina Fazio, Nicola Fontana, Akash Raja, Martina Zanella

Social Policy

Mary-Alice Doyle

Highly Commended: Victoria Donnaloja, Orsola Torrisi

Sociology

Benjamin Brundu-Gonzalez

Highly Commended: Özgün Aksakal, Gabrielle Harris, Sacha Hilhorst 

Statistics

Rowland Bennett

Daniela Escobar

Highly Commended: Qin Fang, Shakeel Gavioli-Akilagun, Eni Iljazi, Anastasia Kakou, Jose Manuel Pedraza Ramirez, Siliang Zhang 

Department

Winners

Accounting

Bian Tan

David Trodden

Anthropology

Megan Laws

Highly Commended: William Matthews

Economic History

Guillaume Yon

Highly Commended: Maanik Nath, Mario Cuenda-Garcia

Economics

Tilman Hoenig

Evgeniya Kudinova

William Matcham

Derek Pillay 

Chiara Sotis

Highly Commended: Anna Bartsch, Fabio Bertolotti, Loughlan O’Doherty, Victor Quintas-Martinez, Jack Shannon, Aditya Soenarjo

European Institute

Cristobal Garibay-Petersen

Highly Commended: Marta Lorimer, Ivor Sokolic  

Finance

Zhongchen Hu

Debapriya Jojo Paul

Alberto Pellicioli

Marco Pelosi

Gender Studies

Daniel Luther 

Highly Commended: Walaa Alquaisaiya, Ece Kocabicak, Emma Spruce

Geography and Environment

Alexandra Sotiriou

Jayaraj Sundaresan

Xiaolun Yu

Highly Commended: Sanchayan Banerjee, Jason Wong

Government

Joseph Greenwood

Phedias Theophanous

Highly Commended: Tom Bailey, Yonatan Levi

International Development

Ian Madison

Rishita Nandagiri

Highly Commended: Tom Kirk, Jon Lunn

International History

William King

Highly Commended: Sarah Ashraf, Marina Perez-de-Arcos

International Relations

Pilar Elizalde

Alice Engelhard

Highly Commended: Yuna Han, Tristen Naylor, McKenzie Ratner, Johanna Rodehau-Noack 

Language Centre

Lourdes Hernandez-Martin

Highly Commended: Larisa Leifland Berntsson

Law

Agnieska Ason

Anca-Gabriela Bunda

Highly Commended: Mattia Pinto, Mary Stokes 

LSE100

Ivan Deschenaux

Marina Franchi

Joanne Kalogeras

Jessica Simpson

Management

Rebecca Campbell

Raquel Campos Gallego

Karin King

Will Matcham

Highly Commended: Aurélie Cnop, Roger Fon, Adrian Gauci, Ruth Reaney    

Mathematics

Siri Kouletsis

Laurence O'Toole

Niccolo Salvatori

Highly Commended: Asuka Kumon, Danny Scarponi, Tony Whelan 

Media and Communications

Ramnath Bhat

Zhongwei Li

Polly Withers

Highly Commended: Jessica Fuk-Yin Kong

Methodology

Kate Summers

Highly Commended: Edward Ademolu, Sarah Jewett, Ruxandra Serban, Ellen Watts  

Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Nick Makins

Highly Commended: Sophie Kikkert

Psychological and Behavioural Science

 Bradley Franks

Social Policy

Grace Chang

Highly Commended: Vanessa Hughes, Liz Mann, Amelia Peterson  

Sociology

Sacha Hilhorst

Highly Commended: Kristina Kolbe, Maria Kramer, Naomi Littlejohn  

Statistics

Philip Chan 

Anastasia Kakou

Highly Commended: Qin Fang, Yirui Liu, Jose Pedraza