Vice Chancellor’s Awards (PELT)

Applying for an Award

The Vice Chancellor’s PELT Awards recognise and reward staff, as either individuals or as a small team, for the excellence of their teaching and/or for making a significant and innovative contribution to students’ learning or learning experiences.

Recommendations and Nominations to be advised

Academic (including Sessional staff) and General staff who have been at Notre Dame for a minimum of three years are eligible to be nominated.

The purpose of the awards is to:

  • Build on an already strong institutional culture of high expectations for teaching performance, high quality student learning experiences, supervision and pastoral care of students
  • Acknowledge the role of academic staff and general staff who have played an important support role in contributing to excellence in teaching, learning and pastoral care of students
  • Celebrate, showcase and share excellent practices as an engaged learning community

Nominations can be made:

  • Or by self-nominating as an individual or a team

Staff who receive a recommendation are free to accept, defer or decline this invitation to proceed with their nomination.

All interested staff (whether they have been recommended by others or are self-nominating) need to complete a formal nomination form prior to progressing their Award application. Nomination forms need to be signed by the relevant Dean or equivalent and submitted to curriculum.quality@nd.edu.au no later than Friday 18 December 2023.

Refer to the VC Awards Policy and Procedure below for the full information.

Key dates

October Call for recommendations and nominations
August 2023
Information session recordings (from 2021) - Please note the dates in the nomination video are wrong Am I ready to nominate for an Award? Writing your Award application
October 2023 – February 2024 Nominees progress their applications
24 November 2023 Deadline to recommend a staff member
18 December 2023 Deadline for completed nomination forms
5 February 2024 Deadline for completed application forms
February 2024 Selection Advisory Panel meets for selection process
March/April 2024 Award recipients announced

Policy, procedures and forms for nominees:

Resources available to nominees: