UK NATIONAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION 2002

Professor Martha C. Pennington, a linguist and teacher educator (BA Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania) who holds the Powdrill Professorship in English Language Acquisition at the University of Luton, has been named one of 20 recipients of a UK National Teaching Fellowship. The fellowship recognises achievement in university teaching and learning by an award of £50,000 for a specific research project to be carried out by the recipient.

Martha went through three stages of application for the fellowship. At the first stage, she was selected as the candidate for the University of Luton. At the second stage, she competed against the candidates selected from other universities in the UK and was chosen as a finalist from the UK university group. The final stage of the competition required the candidate to develop a detailed proposal and budget for a research project to spend the £50,000 award money. The TAD Website is Martha’s winning project.