School of Sociology and Social Policy

Awards and Prizes

Each year the School of Sociology and Social Policy celebrates the achievements of its undergraduate and postgraduate students with a range of awards and prizes which are presented at a special prize giving ceremony at the school's graduation celebrations in winter and summer.

Many of the awards are generously supported by alumni or have been established to honour outstanding contributions of former members of the school.

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School of Sociology and Social Policy prize winners 2024/25

Best First-Class Degree Programme

This award is given to the student whose overall performance in their final year in this school has been outstanding.

Criminology

  • Jamie Perry

 Sociology

  • Robin Flaherty-Green

Criminology and Sociology

  • Ellie Wilkinson
 

Sociology and Social Policy

  • Leah Russon Watkins

Criminology and Social Policy

  • Freya Tyler
 

David C Marsh

Awarded annually on the recommendation of the Head of Sociology and Social Policy to the student adjudged to be the best student in all aspects of the work in the first year of any single or joint honours degree in the School of Sociology and Social Policy.

  • Amy Grant
  • Ellie Kinch

George Norton Memorial Prize

Awarded annually on the recommendation of the Head of Sociology and Social Policy to the student who achieves the highest mark in the Criminology examination, or the student who presents the best dissertation submitted for an Honours Degree in the School of Sociology and Social Policy on a topic within the field of criminology. 

  • Claudia Swain
 

Arthur Radford

Best performance by a final year student in any single or joint honours degree in the School of Sociology and Social Policy.

  • Jamie Perry

Best First-Class Undergraduate Dissertation

This award is given to the student who has scored the highest mark in their dissertation, irrespective of which degree in the school they are studying for.  

  • Charlotte Finlayson
 

Bill Silburn

Awarded annually in summer on the recommendation of the Head of Sociology and Social Policy to the student adjudged to be the best student in all aspects of the work in Semester one of the first year of any single or joint honours degree in the School of Sociology and Social Policy.

  • Maliha Pervez
  • Isable Collishaw

See our previous years' prize winners

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