Awarded by: Michael G Gales Medal for Distinguished Teaching
Professor Vidhan Krishan Goyal, Associate Professor in the Department of Finance, mostly teaches advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in finance where enrolment is on a smaller scale, received the Michael G Gales Medal for Distinguished Teaching.
His approach is to start with an applied problem, a case study in a real world situation taken from recent news, and relate it to the theory. This means he must come up with new examples every time the course is taught. The idea is to persuade his students to discover the motivation behind the transactions, watch how relationships between stakeholders change and see how the markets respond and work out why.
The award was established by the University Council in 1994 to commemorate the distinguished service of founding Council member Michael G Gale.