Queen Mary has recognised the work of colleagues from the School of Business and Management, awarding three awards to academics Dr Xue Zhou and Dr Georgy Petrov.
Dr Xue Zhou won two President and Principal's Prizes. The first recognised her leadership of three student led projects that developed students’ employability. The second recognised her work with the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) team, which has introduced a sector-leading approach to delivering sessions across various subjects at QM.
The PLTL project saw students providing academic support to their peers. Peer leaders were recruited and delivered sessions aimed at developing statistical and/or numerical skills in SBM students. This new and experimental initiative was a great success, with 96 students participating in workshops and a further 44 students expressing interest and registering on a waiting list.
Dr Xue Zhou said: “I am a strong advocate for knowledge co-creation and believe that this is one of the most effective educational approaches for student development, agency and innovation. The three student-led pedagogical projects, including the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) project in SBM, Digital Ready Future Business Leader (DRFBL) and the Collaborative student-led online symposium demonstrated this excellence. Through these projects, students developed their ownership of learning, applied their knowledge in practice and developed their employability.”
Dr Georgy Petrov won an award for an innovative module for BSc Business Management focused on current challenges in business and management. The module is structured around the School's mission themes of good governance, social justice, and sustainability, with the value of ethics as a key thread.
Dr Georgy Petrov said: “I am very delighted to receive this award and would also like to congratulate my teaching team, Dr. Fadi Safieddine and Dr Aigerim Umbetbayeva, who have been involved in the delivery of the module. On this module students work on authentic tasks, designed in partnership with employers and through working in small project teams on real challenges faced by employers they apply their newly acquired knowledge to the real world of work, and begin to develop essential employability skills early on in their degree programme.”
View the full list of winners via he Queen Mary news feed.