Student Achievement Awards

UG Community Prize

For outstanding contribution to the community.

• Alice Leng (BA Hons English with Creative Writing) for producing a magazine for residents in a local care home and visiting them. Care staff have appreciated the resource to conduct meaningful, person-centred activities with residents.
• Amelia Shipley (BA Hons English) for producing a magazine for residents in a local care home and visiting them. Care staff have appreciated the resource to conduct meaningful, person-centred activities with residents.
• Aldea Toth (BA Hons English) for assisting at Open Days and Offer Holder Days and being a fantastic representative of the School of English.
• Laura Scaife (BA Hons English) for her contribution as a Course Representative and an Education Representative for the School.

Undergraduate Dissertation Prize

• Samuel Masters (BA Hons English Language and Literature)
• George Baxter (BA Jt Hons English & French)

Literature Prize

• Beth Walker (BA Hons English with Creative Writing)
• Suniti Vyas (BA Jt Hons English & History)

 Creative Writing Prize

• Ela Moss (BA Hons English with Creative Writing)
• Samuel Vines (BA Hons English with Creative Writing)

Language Prize

• Alice Rowe (BA Hons English)
• Megan Pope (BA Hons English)
• Millie Finch (BA Hons English Language and Literature)
• Madeline Noctor (BA Jt Hons American Studies and English)

Medieval Prize

• Emma Horne (BA Hons English)

Drama Prize

• Abraham Botha (BA Hons English)

UG Community Prize

For outstanding contribution to the community.

• Yun-San Hsieh (BA Hons English Language and Literature) for her dedication as a 2+2 Rep helping new students from the Ningbo campus to settle in the UK and for her excellent academic performance.

Special Commendations:

• Megan Pope (BA Hons English)
• Isabella McKenzie-Sanchez (BA Hons English with Creative Writing)

The 2021 UG Prize Giving Ceremony was held digitally. The digital ceremony has been archived and can be viewed here, in its entirety.

Best Undergraduate Dissertation

• Xinmei Sun (BA Hons English Language and Applied Linguistics) for a spring-only dissertation entitled 'Conceptualisations and Construals of refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and migrants in UK newspapers under the Covid-19 Context: A Critical Discourse Study Incorporating Cognitive Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics Methods'.

Literature Prize

• Alice Kirk (BA Hons English)
• Sasha Gardner (BA Jt Hons Classics and English)
• Katy Townsend (BA Hons English)

 Creative Writing Prize

• Regina Berges Navarrete (BA Hons English with Creative Writing)

Language Prize

• Bryony Adshead (BA Hons English)

Medieval Prize

• Bowie Adams (BA Hons English)

Drama Prize

• Myron Winter-Brownhill (BA Hons English)

Community Prize

For outstanding contribution to the community.

• Ella Houghton (BA Hons English) in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the School at open days and offer-holder days. Her excellent communication skills and willingness to promote the School have had a clear impact in terms of student recruitment, and prospective students have left feedback thanking her for the role she played at these events.

Special Commendations:

• Joe Paternoster (BA Hons English) in recognition of the huge amount of time he has taken to support his fellow students as President of the English Society. Joe has worked with colleagues in the School to help us in communicating important issues throughout a very challenging year, and has had a significant role to play in reducing confusion and anxiety amongst students.
• Lilith Lear Hudson (BA JT Hons English and Philosophy) in recognition of her enormous and invaluable contribution to the School as Education Rep, always taking a proactive role in supporting students through a wide range of initiatives and being instrumental in the School’s work to develop the student experience.
• All students involved in the Care Home Magazine Project, in recognition of their volunteer work to reduce the isolation felt by those in care homes during the Covid pandemic. These students have designed, written and published these magazines, producing entertaining, moving, funny material which has had an immeasurably positive effect on the care home residents they’ve worked with.

The 2020 UG Prize Giving Ceremony was held digitally. The digital ceremony has been archived and can be viewed here, in its entirety.

School Prize for best Single Honours student in the School of English

• Faye Mitchell (BA Hons English)

School Prize for best Joint Honours student in the School of English

• Zoe Stirzaker (BA Hons English and History)

Best Undergraduate dissertation

• Faye Mitchell (BA Hons English)

Literature Prize

• Rebecca Waldock (BA Hons English)

 Creative Writing Prize

• Bethany Mitchell (BA Hons English with Creative Writing)

Language Prize

• Ozde Ozinanir (BA Hons English Language and Literature)

Medieval Prize

• Peiwei Wang (BA Hons English and Literature (2+2))

Drama Prize

• Natasha Nayee (BA Hons English) 

Community Prize

For outstanding contribution to the community.

• Courtney Clarke (BA Hons English and History)

Head of School's Special Commendation Prize

This prize is awarded by the Head of School to a student or students who have made an outstanding contribution to the life of the School. 

• Alisha Ladva (BA Hons English)

School Prize for best Single Honours student in the School of English

• Christopher Griffin (BA Hons English)

School Prize for best Joint Honours student in the School of English

• Ben Lomas (BA Hons English and Philosophy)

Prize for best dissertation

• Christopher Griffin (BA Hons English)
• Isobel Frost (BA Hons English)
• Fiona Postans (BA Hons English)

Bond Literary Essay Prize

Awarded for outstanding achievement in Literary Studies.

• Emily Brazier (BA Hons English)

 Creative Writing Prize

For achieving the highest average mark across the four Year Three Creative Writing Modules:

• Jessica Fae Sapsford (BA Hons English with Creative Writing)

Ron Carter Prize

• Rosie Wildman (BA Hons English) for outstanding achievement in Language and Linguistics studies. For their essay 'Can online blogs challenge the stigmatisation of Borderline Personality Disorder?' produced for the module 'The Discourses of Health and Work'.

Medieval Prize

• Freya Whiteside (BA Hons English) for outstanding achievement in Medieval studies. For their work on the module 'Literature of the Anglo-Saxons'.

Drama Prize

• Ciara Amas (BA Hons English and History) for outstanding achievement in Drama studies. For receiving the highest overall mark ever on the module 'Theatre Making' and earning the joint-highest mark across Drama modules at Year Three.

Community Prize

For outstanding contribution to the community.

• Humeara Mohamed (BA Hons English with Creative Writing) in recognition of their dedication to Open Day events, patiently answering all questions and offering their digital media expertise to the presentations

Special mention goes out to the following students:

• Georgia Butcher (BA Hons English Language and Literature) in recognition of their enthusiasm for the School and dedication to Open Day events
• Eleanor White (BA Hons English) in recognition of their role as Publicity Officer for the LGBTQ+ network, including being the face of the campaign to install gender neural toilets around campus.
• Olivia Narayan-Mahoney (BA Hons English) in recognition of leading the organisation of the 'Class of 2019' Finalists Event as President of the English Society.

Head of School's Special Commendation Prize

This prize is awarded by the Head of School to a student or students who have made an outstanding contribution to the life of the School. 

• Zara-Jane Apau (BA Hons English) for their outstanding achievement in coordinating the Students as Change Agents project for the School of English and for producing and presenting a report on ‘EDI and the Curriculum’.

School Prize for best Single Honours student in the School of English

• Jonathan McAllister (BA Hons English)
• Lucy Robinson (BA Hons English)

School Prize for best Joint Honours student in the School of English

• Juliet Jackson (BA Hons Classical Civilisation and English)
• Brydie Youngman (BA Hons American Studies and English)

Prize for best dissertation

• Jonathan McAllister (BA Hons English)

Bond Literary Essay Prize

Awarded for outstanding achievement in Literary Studies.

1st prize:

• Max Randall (BA Hons English and History)
• Jonathan McAllister (BA Hons English)

Runner-up:

• Kelly Newlands (BA Hons English)

Kirke White Poetry Prize

Awarded for the best poem or group of poems, attracting the highest overall mark, which have been submitted for the Undergraduate Creative Writing dissertation.

• Esme Partridge (BA Hons English with Creative Writing) 

Community Prize

For outstanding contribution to the community.

• Connie Baird (BA Hons English) for an outstanding contribution to the community. In recognition of her involvement in the dementia reading project two years consecutively, having worked in both residential care homes and dementia wards at the QMC.

Special mention to the following students in recognition of their work in this year’s dementia shared reading scheme.

• Safia Bolton (BA Hons English)
• Alexandra Perry (BA Hons English)
• Jaya Sharma (BA Hons English)
• Alexandra Guerrero (BA Hons English)
• Eleanor Chance (BA Hons English)
• Lailah-Tul-Anne Choudhry (BA Hons English)
• Masooma Malik (BA Hons English)
• Celine Freeman (BA Hons English)

Head of School's Special Commendation Prize

This prize is awarded by the Head of School to a student or students who have made an outstanding contribution to the life of the School. 

• Catherine Cooper (BA Hons English) 

for being a determined and steadfast chair of the Undergraduate Learning Community Forum, in what has been a particularly turbulent year in higher education.

Best Single Honours student at Part I

• Lucy Robinson (BA Hons English) 

Best Joint Honours student at Part I

• Anna Cawdron (BA Hons English and History)
• Kendall Hill (BA Hons English and History)

English Masters Prize

Olivia Rowse (MA English Studies)

Gillian Walters (MA Applied English)

English Masters Research Prize

Magdalena Thacker (MSc Communication and Entrepreneurship)

‘The Marketisation of Higher Education: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the University of Nottingham’s Changing Promotional Discourse’

Carolien Wielockx (MA Applied English)

‘Rough Excision: A Poetic Response to Great Expectations (1861) and Jack Maggs (1997)’

English Masters Community Prize 

Louise Roberts (MA English Studies)

For her substantial contribution to the medieval research culture in the School. Particularly her organisation of the medieval conference and Moot Day in August 2023.

Rhiannon Rumble (MA English (Online))

For her contributions as student representative for her course, going above and beyond the requirements of the role and epitomising the community spirit of MA English (Online).

English Masters Community Prize Special Commendation: Wenrui Li (MA English Literature)

English Masters Prize (onsite MA)

Minael Shahzadi (MA in English Literature)

Anastasia Katarina Chandani Mentzelopoulos (MA Social Science Research (Applied Linguistics))

English Masters Prize (Distance Learning) 

Sarah Lancaster (MA English Studies)

English Masters Dissertation Prize

Minael Shahzadi (MA in English Literature)

Anastasia Katarina Chandani Mentzelopoulos (MA Social Science Research (Applied Linguistics))

English Masters Community Prize 

Marie Georghiou (MA Applied English)

For their work as an EDI Rep, going above and beyond to gather student feedback and instigate community discussions around important topics, then bringing these discussions to staff in the EDI committee and feedback channels so they can work together to improve things on the programme and in the School.

The 2021 PGT Prize Giving Ceremony was held digitally. The digital ceremony has been archived and can be viewed here, in its entirety.

English Masters Prize (onsite MA)

Amy Bouwer (MA in English Literature)

English Masters Prize (Distance Learning) 

Kristen Gilbert (MA Applied Linguistics (Applied English))

English Masters Research Prize

Colin Williams (MA Applied Linguistics by Web-based Distance Learning)

For the dissertation: The relationship between Word Form and Meaning: Identifying English Phonesthemes from Onset Clusters in Obsolete Words.

English Masters Community Prize 

Gillian Walters

For work as a Course Rep for Applied English in the last academic year and going above and beyond to help create a vibrant and welcoming community.

Special Commendation: Panagiota Xenitidou

For work on the School of English Care Home Magazine Project, helping to create two high quality publications for care home staff and residents.

School Prize for the best Masters student in the School of English

Anastasia Mentzelopoulos (MA Applied Linguistics)
Marianne Fish (MA Literary Linguistics)

School Prize for the best Distance Learning student in the School of English

Theresa Eynon (MA Literary Linguistics by Web-based Distance Learning)

School Prize for the best Masters student in the School of English

Denitza Vlaeva (MA Social Science Research (Applied Linguistics))

School Prize for the best Distance Learning student in the School of English

Jennifer Crowe (MA English Studies by Web-based Distance Learning)

Postgraduate Research Community Prize

Postgraduate Research Community Prize

Kathryn Bullen (PhD) for working tirelessly to communicate her research to the Axholme community. Over the past year Kathryn has worked with a network of local historians and local and national organisations involved in community engagement there. She has given online talks, written (non-academic) articles and arranged a placement with North Lincolnshire Museum working towards an exhibition on the Isle. During the placements, Kathryn aims to engage with the local community through workshops and talks, a digital offer of interactive place-name content, and co-production (in collaboration with a PhD researcher in Physical Geography from the University of Plymouth) of 3D models of the landscape with associated place-names and maps, with an overlay video showing increasing/decreasing water levels and landscape change.

Education Rep of the Year (Faculty of Arts)

Lilith Lear Hudson (BA English and Philosophy) - Education Rep for English 20/21

UG Faculty Rep of the Year

Bradley Ewles (BA Modern Language Studies (School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies)) - UG Faculty Rep for Arts 20/21

Campaign of the Year

Lilith Lear Hudson for #knowyourrep

PG Course Rep of the Year

Amna Ibrahim

Professional Development Prize - Winner

Bryony Adshead (BA Hons English)

Professional Development Prize - Highly Commended

Bowie Adams (BA Hons English)

Vice-Chancellor's Global Graduate Prize - Highly Commended

Namita Suberi (BA Hons in English Language and Literature)

Enterprise in the Community Prize - Highly Commended

Jessica Tomlinson (BA Hons English)