RATE Shortlist 2026

Check out who has been shortlisted for the 2026 RATE Awards!

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Thank you to everyone who nominated staff members to the RATE Awards, and thank you to the students who volunteered to shortlist staff.

Teacher of the Year (Arts & Humanities)

  • Dr Ellie Macdonald
  • Dr Sean Kippin
  • Dr Tracy Kirk

Teacher of the Year (Health Sciences & Sport)

  • Debbie Brown
  • Dr Katherine Pachkowski
  • Dr Tom Di Virgilio

Teacher of the Year (Natural Sciences)

  • Dr Kirsty Wiseman-Gregg
  • Dr Neil McDonald
  • Dr Verity Flower

Teacher of the Year (Social Sciences)

  • Dr Ashley Rogers
  • Mark Anderton
  • Natasha McMillan

Teacher of the Year (Stirling Business School)

  • Dr Konstantinos Gavriilidis
  • Dr Fairouz Mustafa
  • Dr Kevin Campbell

Teacher of the Year (International Study Centre)

  • Deborah Wood
  • Emma Scott-Smith
  • Dr Timothy Jones

Outstanding Personal Tutor

  • Dr Adrian Hunter
  • Dawn Neill
  • Dr Steve Rolfe

Postgraduate Research Student Teacher of the year

  • Craig Ferrie
  • Emilia Vassiliades
  • Mariana Canto Sobral

Outstanding Professional Services and Support Staff of the Year

  • Louise Dixon
  • Kevin Holmes
  • Pauline Lockie

Outstanding University Team, Service or Department

  • Accessibility & Inclusion
  • University of Stirling Collections
  • Library & Information Services

Outstanding Programme

  • MSc Housing
  • MSc/LLM Human Rights & Diplomacy
  • BSc Paramedic Science

Outstanding Feedback or Assessment

  • Alan Somerville
  • Dr Brad Duthie
  • Dr David Cairns
  • Emma Scott-Smith

Outstanding Commitment to EDI and Social Justice

  • Dr Elaine Cameron
  • Fiona Dixon
  • Dr Neil Crawford

Outstanding Commitment to Sustainability & Biodiversity

  • Dr Carmen Rosa Medina-Carmona
  • Dr Krista Bondy
  • Dr Martina Quaggiotto

Outstanding Postgraduate Research (PGR) Supervisor of the Year

  • Dr Anna Bobak
  • Dr Magdalena Ietswaart
  • Prof Michael J Roy

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