Award-winning teaching

You can expect a high standard of teaching when you study on a course at Huddersfield.

We actively engage with professional, statutory and regulatory bodies to ensure we teach in a way that will help you to progress your career, as well as deepen your knowledge and broaden your experience. You’ll find that many of our courses have been recognised or accredited by external professional bodies.

96%

96% of our teaching staff hold higher degrees, with 77% holding doctorates.* All our permanent teaching staff** have, or are completing, doctorates, so you will learn from academics at the forefront of their subject area.

Joint 1st

We are joint first in the country for National Teaching Fellowships, which mark the UK’s best lecturers in Higher Education, winning a total of 20 since 2008 (2022 data).

World-class

We won the first Global Teaching Excellence Award. It recognised the University’s commitment to world-class teaching and its success in developing students as independent learners and critical thinkers (Higher Education Academy, 2017).

* HESA 2022.

100%

We were the first and are the only university in the UK where 100% of permanent teaching staff are Fellows of the Higher Education Academy ***.

** Permanent staff, after probation; research degrees applies to those on contracts of more than half-time.

*** Permanent staff, after probation: some recently appointed colleagues will only obtain recognition in the months after their arrival in Huddersfield, once they have started teaching.

“I can really feel the passion that the academics have for their subjects. I appreciate the patience and understanding they have when something is unclear to me, and their willingness to help and support me at all stages of my studies.

“The academics often draw their knowledge from research and industry in order to give students relevant and up-to-date examples in their teaching. Every taught student is assigned a Personal Academic Tutor, and there are Academic Skills Tutors available in each school as well who support with any study related questions.”

Dora Marcec Biomedicine BSc(Hons)