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St Hugh’s Fellow receives two awards for teaching excellence

Congratulations to St Hugh’s Lecturer in Management and Senior Fellow in Management Practice at Saïd Business School, Dr Alex Connock, who has been presented with two awards for his excellence in teaching. The first was a Teaching Innovation Award at Saïd Business School; and the second was the Divisional Teaching Excellence Award 2026 at Social Sciences Faculty, in recognition of his contribution to innovative and professionally engaged teaching within the Saïd Business School. His teaching integrates academic learning with real‑world application, enabling students to develop practical skills alongside conceptual understanding.

A distinctive feature of Dr Connock’s teaching is the use of industry‑focused methods that actively involve students in applied problem‑solving and professional contexts. His courses promote engagement with contemporary practice, helping students understand how theoretical material operates beyond the classroom. Student engagement and assessment outcomes indicate that this approach supports effective learning across diverse cohorts. Through innovative course design and applied teaching methods, Dr Connock’s work contributes to a professionally oriented learning environment that prepares students for practical challenges beyond their degree.

Dr Connock said: ‘I’m really delighted to receive this award. Teaching at St Hugh’s College and Said Business School is a privilege, as we have such extraordinary diversity of students, from undergraduate to postgraduate, executive to online levels.  I was fortunate to embark on the journey of integrating AI into our course offers in 2020, and ever since then we have been compiling and developing that integration at pace, across courses in Marketing and Media Business as well as of course AI itself.  The growth has been as exponential as the growth of the industry.  On occasion, I have given a lecture where the majority of the AI business content had to be updated for the news the day before.

Dr Connock added, ‘Some of my favourite teaching is at St Hugh’s with our brilliant undergraduates on Economics and Management, who are the smartest and hardest working students of all!’

Photo above: Dr Alex Connock during talk to the European Broadcasting Union. Photo credit: Maximilian von Lachner – ZDF