Dr Dai Morgan has become a mainstay of the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development, delivering excellence, innovation and leadership in teaching, and continually developing new material and activities for the benefit of students.

Prize citation

The winners' presentation ceremony was hosted recently by Professor Graham Virgo, Senior Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education), who explained that the 12 winners of the 2022 awards had been recognised for their “innovative, inspiring and inclusive approach”.

In a citation, published ahead of the ceremony, Dr Morgan was praised for his commitment to the course that he leads and also his ability to inspire future generations of engineers. 

The citation reads: Dr Dai Morgan has become a mainstay of the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development, delivering excellence, innovation and leadership in teaching, and continually developing new material and activities for the benefit of students. Beyond his formal duties, he has an outstandingly generous, sensitive and unselfish approach to supporting student welfare, and is always very highly regarded in any feedback surveys.

Dai has also taken a wider interest in the pedagogy of teaching issues of sustainability to engineers, contributing to international conferences in this field, and has co-led innovative summer schools in Spain for postgraduates selected from a wide range of engineering programmes across Europe and North America. His commitment to the special ethos of the Engineering for Sustainable Development MPhil is exemplary and he is able to inspire future generations of engineers to change the way they think.

Professor Virgo said: “Cambridge offers some of the world’s best research-led teaching that is student-focused and tailored to the individual, balancing the large-scale, the technological and the new with the individual and tried-and-true methods.

“What stands out about the teachers we are celebrating today is that they share a gift for explaining complex subjects lucidly so as to make them clear and accessible – to students, and in many cases, through their outreach work, accessible to wider audiences as well.”

The Pilkington Prizes are awarded annually to members of academic staff in recognition of their contributions to teaching excellence in support of Cambridge undergraduate and postgraduate education. They were initiated by Sir Alastair Pilkington, who believed that the quality of teaching was crucial to the University's success.

• Browse the full list of this year’s prize winners and their achievements.

Adapted from a University of Cambridge ‘For Staff’ news article.