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John Cairns
The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards recognise the achievements and celebrate success across the collegiate University, from academics and researchers to professional, technical and support staff.
There were 170 award entries across the 13 categories this year, with over 1,000 individuals included in the nominations.
Helen Higham, as part of OxCRED (Oxford Crisis Education), was announced as winner in the Making a Difference Globally award category for delivering Oxford-designed online education to university students in crisis-affected areas of the world.
OxCRED (Oxford Crisis Education) is an education-in-crisis initiative based at Oxford Lifelong Learning, offering a flexible and scalable model of online education that enables students affected by crisis, whether through conflict or displacement, to continue their learning and academic engagement.
During its pilot year, OxCRED has focused on addressing urgent healthcare education needs in Gaza. Colleagues in the Medical Sciences Division, OxSTaR, OxPAL, the Bodleian Libraries, and Oxford University Press, worked to develop and deliver two online courses for trauma and orthopaedics.
Members of OxCIN, as part of the Graduate programme in brain imaging, were highly commended in the Teaching and Learning Award for delivering world-class MRI training, cultivating leaders in cutting-edge brain imaging research.
The MRI Graduate Programme is a set of courses designed to teach new researchers the theory and practice of MRI neuroimaging, from introductory courses on neuroscience and statistics, to MRI physics and analysis.
The volunteer-led team from OxCIN includes Tom Okell, Kamila Szulc-Lerch, Rick Lange, Rezvan Farahibozorg, Marieke Martens, Paul McCarthy, Ben Tendler, Wenchuan Wu, Jesper Andersson, Ludo Griffanti, Mark Jenkinson, Rogier Mars, and Gwen Douaud.
A full list of winners and highly commended nominations can be found on the awards webpage.