They had their studies interrupted by lockdowns and hybrid teaching, and have had to wait a year for their graduation, which made their achievements and their celebrations even more joyful.
It was wonderful to finally be able to celebrate with the Class of 2021 who returned for their belated graduation conferrals in Canterbury Cathedral. We were able to catch up with them informally and raise a toast to their achievements. Particularly because this is the cohort who probably felt the impact of the global pandemic the most on their studies. The difficulties they incurred and the resilience they displayed makes their achievement all the more significant.
Head of School Professor Robbie Sutton announced this year’s prize winners and handed out fist-bumps!
Undergraduate Prizes
- The British Psychological Society Undergraduate Prize is awarded to the student with the highest overall grade upon graduation, and was awarded to Callum Bryson.
- The Janet Miele Prize, was endowed by Dr Janet Miele; this annual prize is awarded for the best final year project in Psychology and was jointly awarded to Cassidy Rowden and Shauna Clune
- The Best Applied Prize is awarded to the student with the best final year marks – Matilda Minchin
- The Final Year Prize is awarded to the best final year student, and this year was awarded to Mawada Ghanem
Postgraduate Prizes
- The Else Frenkel-Brunswik Prize, a prize awarded for the student with the highest overall mark in the MSc Political Psychology went to Abigail Schwartz
- The Amy Haskew Prize, is a prize awarded to the student with the highest overall mark in the MSc Forensic Psychology which was Olivia Reid
- The Diane Houston Prize, for the student with the highest overall mark in the MSc Social Psychology and awarded to Raquel Fantoni
- The Lorne Hulbert Prize, a prize awarded for the student with the highest overall mark in the MSc Organisational and Business Psychology was awarded to Mesha Harry
- The Jean Piaget Prize was awarded to the student with the highest overall mark in the MSc Developmental Psychology -Lauren McGuinness
- The Hermann von Helmholtz is a prize awarded for the student with the highest overall mark in the MSc Cognitive Psychology -Laura Hunt
- The William Sealy Gossett Statistics Prize is awarded to the student with the highest overall mark on module SP801 (PSYC8010) -Olivia Reid
- The Prize for the Best Applied Research Project is a prize awarded for the best-applied research project across all MSc programmes of study, also awarded to Laura Hunt
- The Prize for the Best Theoretical Research Project, awarded for the best theoretical research project across all MSc programmes of study was awarded to Raquel Fantoni
Look at the full Flickr album of photographs from the day