Student Choice Teaching Awards
Outstanding Support for Teaching Ms Marie Fournier French Department, UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society
Marie Fournier was born in France, in Burgundy. She completed her education at Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3), where she took an undergraduate degree in English Literature and graduate qualifications in the same area (Maîtrise and D.E.A.). While still completing her D.E.A., Marie moved to London to take up a post as lectrice at University College London. She has taught French at all levels in the UCL Centre for Languages & International Education and in the French Department. In 2005, she was appointed Language Coordinator in the French Department where she has taught full-time since then. Marie also does freelance translation, in particular for the Haiti Support Group, whose quarterly Haiti Briefing magazine she translates into French. She has a particular interest in contemporary French and francophone writing and paraliterature (bande dessinée). She also has varied interests outside of academic life: travel, art, music, contemporary dance.
Mr Stuart Laidlaw UCL Institute of Archaeology
Stuart hails from Glasgow where he was educated and came to London because he heard the streets were paved with gold. When Stuart joined the Institute of Archaeology, he worked closely, for a number of years, with the photographer Peter Dorrell. Following Peter’s retirement, Stuart began teaching courses in Archaeological Photography and Illustration and, in recent years, Digital Photography. His work at the Institute has taken him to a variety of countries including Libya, Greece, Belize and Russia amongst others. Most recently he has been teaching courses for UCLQ in Qatar. Stuart is currently working with Georgina Herrmann and Helena Coffey on the final book in the Ivories from the Nimrud series, Nimrud 8, with a view to publication in 2015. Stuart always tells the students that he has been at the Institute of Archaeology for so long that his contract is written in Latin. Whilst probably true, the students say it is equally likely to be written in Sanskrit or Linear B.
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