Dalhousie Alumni Association Award of Excellence for Teaching Recipients
Congratulations to the 2024 recipient!
Dr. Marion Brown
School of Social Work, Faculty of Health
Marion is a social worker/educator with over 20 years’ experience in facilitating meaningful conversations in community and university settings. Marion began teaching at the School of Social Work in 2002 and in 2020 was appointed Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Health.
Marion has taught in the undergraduate and graduate social work programs, on campus and online. Grounded in relational processes, she uses critical pedagogies, weaving analyses of power and advocacy into politicized teaching & learning processes. In 2019 she was awarded the Canadian Association of Social Work Distinguished Service Award. Her areas of research and writing include projects focussed on universal design for learning, culturally responsive pedagogies, trauma informed learning environments, interprofessional education and practice, and health equity.
As Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Health she is responsible for strategic leadership in program & curriculum development, implementation, evaluation, & continuous improvement for academic & scholarly innovation.
2023
Dr. Sachin Seth, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Faculty of Dentistry, is being honoured as an outstanding teacher and mentor with the Dalhousie Alumni Association Faculty Award of Excellence for Teaching. His helpful, open, and supportive way of dealing with students and colleagues exemplify the criteria for this award. Dr. Seth has taught across all years of the dentistry curriculum, and he is a favourite amongst the students. Dr. Seth’s publications help pass on his expertise to colleagues and his YouTube videos of introductory operative dentistry techniques are a valuable resource to both Dalhousie and non-Dalhousie students alike. His innovative small group practice model, which brought a diverse group of teachers and students together, has greatly impacted the education and the educational experience.
Biography
Sachin Seth, DDS, MEd is an assistant professor and associate dean of academics at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He completed his BSc and DDS degrees at Dalhousie University in 1996 and 2000 respectively and then obtained his MEd from Acadia University in 2011, with a focus on curriculum development.
Since 2002, Sachin has been involved with both clinical and didactic teaching at Dalhousie University, including operative dentistry, evidence-based dentistry, patient care, and communications. In 2018, he led various stakeholders to deliver an innovative new clinical teaching program that exposes students to a setting which more closely resembles private practice, with collaboration between dentistry and dental hygiene.
Sachin has worked extensively with the National Dental Examining Board of Canada and been involved with standard setting, exam review, and question writing for licensure exams for dentists in Canada.
He was recently inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Dentists. Sachin has also received several teaching awards, including the Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry W.W. Wood Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2019 and the Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry National Teaching Award in 2022.