ICE Professor wins prestigious University teaching prize

We’re delighted to announce the Institute of Continuing Education’s Professor Clare Morris as winner of a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence 2021.

Clare, a Senior Teaching Associate for Medical Education, joined ICE in 2014 and has led, created and delivered the Postgraduate Diploma and MSt since 2018 and 2019 respectively. The medical education portfolio is now recognised as a regional beacon and a leading national provider. 

A role model for clinical educators

Clare is a skilled builder of inclusive communities of learning, enabling post-registration medical and healthcare professionals to learn from her expertise and, vitally, to learn from their peers and extend their professional networks. Clare’s knowledge base, professional experience and superb approach to team-based teaching demonstrates to professional students the range of educational approaches available to healthcare professionals who themselves are educating and training the next generation of clinicians.  

“I work with the most extraordinary students on the medical education programmes” Clare commented, “they are generous with their thoughts, ideas and experiences. It is such a privilege to be part of their learning community, even more so to be recognised for the part I play in supporting their development as educators.”

Dr James Gazzard, Director of Continuing Education, commented, “Clare richly deserves this recognition. Clare is a continuing educator to her very bones, and we at ICE are fortunate to benefit from her dynamism, professionalism and wisdom.” 

The Pilkington Prize awards were endowed and inaugurated in 1994 by Sir Alastair Pilkington (Cambridge alumnus, engineer and inventor of the float glass process) to acknowledge excellence in teaching. Only 12 prizes are awarded each year across the University of Cambridge, with ICE nominating an awardee biennially. Clare will be presented with her prize by the University’s Vice-Chancellor on 29 June. 

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