Excellent teachers recognised
WINNERS: Some of the winners in the different categories with Acting Dean of the Faculty, Prof Penelope Engel-Hills.
Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Videos, peer education and online platforms are just some of the innovative tools the excellent teachers recently honoured by the Faculty of Health and Wellness Sciences use in their classrooms.
A number of outstanding teachers were honoured during the Faculty’s annual Teaching Excellence Awards.
Five departmental winners were recognised while Ryan Matthews from the Department of Emergency Medical Sciences (EMS) scooped the overall Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.
The five departmental winners are: Dr Lisa Graham, (Biomedical Sciences) Dr Kathleen Grant (Biomedical Sciences), Nkosikho Sogwagwa (Biomedical Sciences), Llizane McDonald (EMS) and Valdiela Daries (Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Sciences).
This year the Faculty also introduced a number of new categories.
The winners in these categories are:
- Outstanding Workplace Learning Engagement Initiative: John Meyer (EMS)
- Service Learning – Saaiga Ismail (MITS)
- Language initiatives – Dr Lisa Graham (Biomedical Sciences).
- Outstanding Research Awardees: Prof Peter Clarke-Farr (Ophthalmic Sciences), Dr Hilda Vember (Nursing) and Dr Glenda Davison (Biomedical Sciences)
- Outstanding Teaching with Technology initiative: Dr Lisa Graham (Biomedical Sciences).
- Outstanding First-Year experience and Orientation Initiative: Wendy Solomon Biomedical Sciences)
- Outstanding Curriculum Development: Marlene Bezuidenhout (Dental Sciences)
Acting Dean of the Faculty, Prof Penelope Engel-Hills, said celebrating success in the workplace was important and thanked the winners for going the extra mile.
Written by Ilse Fredericks
Email: Frederickskennediji@cput.ac.za
News categories
- Advancement 13
- Alumni 77
- Awards 42
- Campus Life 20
- Community Engagement 158
- Disability Unit 12
- Applied Sciences 93
- Business & Management Sciences 91
- Education 97
- Engineering & the Built Environment 134
- Health & Wellness Sciences 90
- Informatics & Design 69
- Fundani CHED 25
- Funding 19
- GBV 16
- Graduation 80
- HIV/Aids Unit 39
- Know Your CPUT 65
- Libraries 18
- News 3733
- RTIP 286
- Residences (Accommodation) 14
- Staff 632
- SIIP 38
- Students 1290
- Student Health 43
- Sport, Arts & Culture 117
- SRC 4
- Student Affairs 11
- University Leadership 17
- Varsity Shield 17
- Vice-Chancellor 24
- Work-Integrated Learning 21
- THENSA 10
Latest NEWS
Intensive workshop on Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks
Monday, 06 July 2026
Read more