The college is thrilled to report that fellow Dr Marta Halina, a member of the Cambridge Department of History & Philosophy of Science, has been awarded a Pilkington Prize.

The Pilkington Prize awards were endowed and inaugurated in 1994 by Sir Alastair Pilkington to acknowledge excellence in teaching. The prizes are awarded to individuals who make a substantial contribution to the teaching programme of a Department, Faculty or the University as a whole.

The citation reads:

Dr Marta Halina has almost single-handedly overhauled our History & Philosophy of Science Tripos to make Cambridge one of the foremost places in the world to study philosophy of cognitive science, comparative cognition and AI. Prior to her arrival, there was no dedicated teaching on these topics: a major gap. Marta developed 48 hours of new lectures and 8 hours of new seminars, including seven entirely new courses. She has also, since long before lockdown and the pivot to remote teaching, been a leader in the use of innovative pedagogical strategies and technologies in the classroom.

At the postgraduate level, Marta led a major restructuring of our MPhil as well as changes to the support we offer our postgraduate students. She has introduced a very popular MPhil module, AI in Healthcare, and is in high demand for supervising both MPhil and PhD students. Most importantly, Marta's teaching is always marked by a concern to improve diversity and equality. Through her careful dedication to teaching, she has not only broadened the range of topics we teach and discuss but also who gets to discuss them. Marta's students rightly view her as a role model of how to do philosophy.