School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies

Prize winning dissertations, essays and performances

Every year, the school awards a number of prizes to our undergraduate students to recognise their efforts and achievements during their degree studies.

Final year undergraduate prize winners 2023 to 24 academic year

Prize-winning dissertations
NameCourse/DepartmentDissertation title

Chloe Burns

 

American and Canadian Studies

Terrorism or Hate Crime?: The Distinction Under United States Federal Law and the Implications of Indictment

Annabel Light

American and Canadian Studies

African-American Female Journalists: Battling Discrimination Through News, 1931-2024

Michelle Tweed

American and Canadian Studies

White Settler-Colonial Wendigoism: Exploring the Relevance of the Dual Monster to Representations of Indigeneity and Indigenous Struggle in Ravenous (1999)

Ella Benson Roberts

American and Canadian Studies

'Disco's Revenge': House Music and the Politics of Expression

Ella Craig

American and Canadian Studies

A Battle Against Books: An Examination of the Rise of Book Bans in Florida and Their Impact, from 2018-Present

Paige Daniels

Liberal Arts

Redefining 'rich' cultural commons: An investigation into the presence and promise of local history education for working class KS3 learners in North Nottinghamshire 'colliery villages'.

Madeleine O'Brien

Liberal Arts

Could ecofeminism overcome essentialism critiques and challenge hegemonic European rationality by reconciling material, symbolic, and spiritual perspectives from the Global North and Global South?

Julia Pedley

Liberal Arts

Defer to the Others: Queerness, Decolonisation, and Spaces of Artistic Power

Helena McGrory

Cultural, Media and Visual Studies - International Media and Communications Studies

How is job satisfaction and creativity understood by creative laborers in a non-creative industry? An exploration of the creative identity within British automotive manufacturers and importers.

Zara Freidenfeld

Cultural, Media and Visual Studies - Film and Television Studies

How do paratexts perpetuate the narrative, themes, and franchising logics of the Harry Potter (Rowling, 1997-) mythos in The 2020s?

Ethan Bissett

Cultural, Media and Visual Studies - History of Art

The Absorsion of the Counter-Monument

Katherine Law

Modern Languages and Cultures - Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies

The Silent Holocaust: Finding the Ixil Voice in the Aftermath of Efraín Ríos Montt’s 1982 Scorched Earth Campaign against Guatemala’s Mayan Population’

Annabel Garner

Modern Languages and Cultures - German

Does research support the theory that children who are bilingual, or foreign language learners, gain a cognitive advantage regarding inhibition?

Joe Hooper

Modern Languages and Cultures - Russian and Slavonic Studies

The Representation of public and private space in the ‘Chernukha’: An examination of Malen’kaia Vera, Avariia - doch’ menta, and Migranty

 

School prizes for best essay
NameCourse/DepartmentEssay title

Elodie McMinn

American and Canadian Studies

How might Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" be used to explain the contemporary status of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? as a 'camp classic 

Isabelle Straw

American and Canadian Studies

Jet, Black Female Bodies, and the Black Bourgeoisie 

Millie Dobinson

Cultural, Media and Visual Studies - International Media and Communications Studies

Individual Report

Roisin Mulholland

Cultural, Media and Visual Studies - Film and Television Studies

Interventions: How the Artists’ Mark Elevated Photography from Documentation to Art.

Ethan Bissett

Cultural, Media and Visual Studies - History of Art

Which is more effective: to Witness Performance Live or to Access it Via Photographic Documentation

The Flâneur on Holiday: the Display of Femininity at the Seaside

Olamide Belewu

Modern Languages and Cultures - French

Nicolas Sarkozy is to be congratulated for having had the courage, first, to break with the failed policy of “immigration zero” and then to adopt the more rational and just policy of “immigration choisie”’. Discuss this claim in the light of the approach to immigration control adopted by Sarkozy between 2006 and 2012.

Hannah Fielder 

Modern Languages and Cultures - German

How does the combination of historical fact and dramatic form in Weiss’ Die Ermittlung work as a way of reflecting on what happened at Auschwitz, and how successful is it?

Madeleine Pitt

Modern Languages and Cultures - Russian and Slavonic Studies

How do the narratives of saintly women present gender?

Aidan Cross

Modern Languages and Cultures - Spanish and Latin American Studies

Passion and Suffering: Christ and the Cross in El Greco, Antonio de Pereda y Salgado and Velázquez

 

Best overall academic performance
NameCourse/Department

Michelle Tweed

American and Canadian Studies

Paige Daniels

Liberal Arts

Helena McGrory

Cultural, Media and Visual Studies - International Media and Communications Studies

Zara Freidenfeld

Cultural, Media and Visual Studies - Film and Television Studies

Mutiat Akamo

Cultural, Media and Visual Studies - History of Art

Kate Fitch

Modern Languages and Cultures single honours

Alejandro Martínez-Kopf

Modern Languages and Cultures joint honours

Lucy Evison

Modern Languages and Cultures combined honours

 

Notable academic performance in a core language module
NameCourse/Department

Molly Ashley

Modern Languages and Cultures Chinese

Tameemah Oleolo

Modern Languages and Cultures French

Hannah Fielder 

Modern Languages and Cultures German

Lelah Gorgin

Modern Languages and Cultures RSS

Sabion Hajdinaj

Modern Languages and Cultures Spanish

Sarah Bradbury

Modern Languages and Cultures Portuguese

 

Notable academic performance in a core module (Liberal Arts)
Name Course/Department

Hannah Grant

Liberal Arts

 

Prize winners in previous years

2020 to 21

2021 to 22

2022 to 23

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