Pilkington Prize award winners honoured
Published on June 17, 2026
Pilkington Prize award winners honoured
Paul Seagrove
The prizes, which have been awarded annually since 1994, recognise individuals who make a significant contribution to teaching at the University of Cambridge. The awards were presented by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Deborah Prentice, who praised the winners for their transformative and visionary approach to teaching. She told them "you all share a gift for explaining complex subjects lucidly".
This year's winners are;
Professor Julian Allwood (Department of Engineering/St Catharine's College)
Dr Monique Boddington (Judge Business School)
Professor Nicholas Butterfield (Department of Earth Sciences/Selwyn College)
Professor John Carr (Department of Plant Sciences/Corpus Christi College)
Dr Fiona Cooke (School of Clinical Medicine/Girton College)
Professor Orietta Da Rold (Faculty of English/St John's College)
Dr Oleg Kitov (Faculty of Economics/Selwyn College)
Dr Rachel Leow (Faculty of History)
Professor María Noriega-Sánchez (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics/Sidney Sussex College)
Professor Dhruv Ranganathan (Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences/St John's College)
Klaud Simpson (School of Clinical Medicine)
and Professor Edgar Turner (Department of Zoology/Clare College)
You can read more about their work on the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning website.
You all share a gift for explaining complex subjects lucidly
Professor Deborah Prentice
The award winners with the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Deborah Prentice, Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bhaskar Vira, and donors Angela and Julia Carter
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