{"id":42,"date":"2025-11-28T10:17:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/?p=42"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:27:29","slug":"welcome-back-and-congratulations-to-our-returning-epir-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/2025\/11\/28\/welcome-back-and-congratulations-to-our-returning-epir-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back and congratulations to our returning EPIR students!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Congratulations and welcome back to all our fantastic returning students on progressing into another great year at the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">School of Economics, Politics and International Relations (EPIR)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">You have all worked incredibly hard, and it&#8217;s great to see you back with us at Kent and within our <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">EPIR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> community, as you continue to develop your studies and go on to achieve great results.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We would also like to take this opportunity to highlight some special recognition and extend our congratulations to our current <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Economics, Politics, and International Relations<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Undergraduate Prize Winners who won prizes for the Academic Year 2024\/2025:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Walter Hagenbuch Prize<\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Marianna Piscopiello<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Preston Prize (Winner)<\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Angus Jack-Goulart<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Preston Prize (Runner-Up)<\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span>John-Paul Watson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan Keith-Lucas Prize<\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Amandine Faye<\/p>\n<p><strong>David McLellan Prize\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Megan Stow<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Wishing you all another successful and brilliant year ahead! We look forward to working with you all!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations and welcome back to all our fantastic returning students on progressing into another great year at the School of Economics, Politics and International Relations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/2025\/11\/28\/welcome-back-and-congratulations-to-our-returning-epir-students\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74978,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[978,124,202868],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/epi-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}