The event on 9th November, involving 2022 undergraduates and postgraduates, was a great oppotunity for academic staff, graduates, and friends and family to come together to celebrate our students' fantastic achievements.

It was also a chance to honour the 2022 award winners and for Head of School Professor Karen West to present the awards to those who were able to attend.

Professor West said: "We are very proud of our students and their amazing achievements. What they have achieved is all the more impressive given how challenging the last few years have been. They have shown the way with their commitment, flexibility and hard work and they are a great credit to the School and the University."

The 2022 undergraduate prize winners were:

Lindsay Chaplin Memorial Prize
Gwendolen Brown - Social Policy with Quantitative Research Methods

This prize has been established in honour of outstanding student Lindsay Chaplin (BSc (Hons) Childhood Studies with Quantitative Research Methods, 2014-2018) and is awarded to candidates who have demonstrated a similar passion and engagement with quantitative study as Lindsay did during their time in the School for Policy Studies.

Best dissertation – Childhood Studies
Ayla Husseyin

Best dissertation – Criminology
Jaimie O’Connor
Shannon Strickson

Best dissertation – Social Policy
Maya Rao - Social Policy with Quantitative Research Methods
Christopher Tse - Social Policy and Sociology
Louis O’Geran - Social Policy and Politics

Citizenship Award
Award given in recognition of outstanding contribution to university life or the wider community.

Phoebe Cole – Childhood Studies
Vy Tran – Criminology
Rosie Fortune – Social Policy

Congratulations to all our 2022 graduates. We wish you all well in the future. Keep in touch!