Students awarded prizes at Graduation

David Deacon and Lisa

On 15th December, our 2023 postgraduate cohort enjoyed a brilliant graduation day on campus celebrating with friends, family, and staff members from our School.

On the day, prizes were handed out to students that excelled during their time studying our postgraduate programmes. These were dissertation prizes, and the School of Social Sciences Community Prizes.

The winners were as follows:

Communication, Media, Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy Studies Postgraduate Dissertation Prizes

  • Mads Harbach Butterworth
  • Yanqi Chen
  • Teddy Feltes
  • Ryan Jeevan Singh Jhaj
  • Lisa Marie Scholten

School of Social Sciences and Humanities Community Prizes

  • Purbashree Deka - Communication and Media
  • Lisa Marie Scholten - Communication and Media
  • Reuben Stanley Shapland - Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy

Dissertation prizes are awarded to the top four students achieving the highest dissertation marks across the postgraduate MA taught programmes, and the top individual student achieving the highest dissertation mark across the postgraduate MSc taught programmes in Communication and Media and Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy.

The School of Social Sciences and Humanities Community Prizes are given to the students who are judged to have made an exceptional extra-curricular contribution to the discipline, School or University or wider community.

Congratulations to all winners!

Take a look at our graduate prize winners below