Year Abroad social media competition winner 2016

Each year, we run a competition to encourage our students to share photographs of their year abroad with us via social media using the hashtag #UoNgoingplaces. 

This year competition was fierce with well over 300 amazing images entered. We’d like to thank our students for taking part and sharing their photographs which have brought us a lot of pleasure.

Here are our winners: 

Overall prize winner (£50 Amazon voucher):

Jacob Kennison (Rio de Janeiro)

Runner up:

Dorothy Robert (Hanover)

Highly commended:

• Beth Allen (Found my happy place - Martinique)
• Jordan Bertenshaw (Berlin - Brandenburger Tor)
• Jenny Crossley (Shanghai)
• Alice Fidler (Parque nacional de Aiguestortes)
• Eleanor Gill (for Sunday in Toulouse and Ma rue préférée de Toulouse)
• Katherine Goodman (Why did you quit the library? - Grenoble)
• Jacob Kennison (Making friends in Gibraltar)
• Sam Keshmiri (Nemo and friends - Berlin)
• Helen Long (Templo de Debod - Madrid)
• Margaret Mullan (Bolivia)
• Dorothy Robert (for Leafy in Bremen this time)
• Jenny Skipper (for three images: Afternoon drinks in El Caminito - Buenos Aires, Shaman Poles at Olkhon Island, and Made it to Moscow)

Congratulations to you all.

Take a look at our #UoNgoingplaces webpage to see some of the fantastic photographs our students have shared.