Congratulations to all those graduating today

Congratulations to our final-year students from the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL) who are graduating today with their well-earned degrees. This is the culmination of three or four years of hard work, or longer for part-time students.

Several students in the School have also won additional awards. The Faculty has awarded  the Humanities Rotary Prize (for excellence in their subject) to two SECL students:  Emily Cook (from English Language & Linguistics) and Joseph Bowen (from Philosophy). And the following prizes have been awarded by the School: Davide Alfredo Mule Marchese – the SECL Joint Honours Prize for the best first-class mark from a joint honours student, and Joel Tennant – the SECL Employability Prize, for which he organised and ran the English Language & Linguistics Society Undergraduate Festival.

Other departmental prizes include:

Classical & Archaeological Studies

  • Tom Pinner and Jessica Payne share the Best Dissertation prize
  • Adriana Palladino, The KH Lee Ancient Language Prize for best mark in advanced Latin
  • Tom Pinner, the Tom Blagg Prize for greatest achievement
  • Andrew Lees for Greatest Achievement in stage 2

Comparative Literature

  • Holly Elizabeth Allen for Best Overall Achievement (stage 2)
  • George McClelland for Best Overall Achievement (stage 3)
  • Atiyah Ali, the Roger and Agnes Cardinal Prize, for the best final-year dissertation
  • Sam Cassie, Grace Evans, Emily Ives-Keeler, George McClelland, Thomas Megaw and Kuba Shand-Baptiste shared the Runner Up Dissertation Prize

English Language & Linguistics

  • Shona Wood for Outstanding Achievement in Stage 2
  • Craig Hamilton for Outstanding Achievement in Stage 3
  • Lydia Giles and Victoria Picking share the Dissertation Prize

French

  • Edward Payne for Best Overall Performance in French
  • Elizabeth Hutchings wins Best Final Year Dissertation and Best Performance in Joint Honours
  • Jessela Adjei for Achievement in Ab Initio French

German

  • Francesca Runger-Field for Best Overall Achievement
  • Claire Beaumont for the Greatest Contribution to German at Kent
  • Jasmine Joyce for Academic Progression

Hispanic Studies

  • Dellanie Nash wins the overall prize for Hispanic Studies
  • Nichaolas Purdue for Academic Progression
  • Hannah Ilett wins the Peninsular Prize
  • Charles Burgess-Reid wins the Latin American Prize
  • Kinga Boer the Catalan Prize
  • Rob Webber for the Best Dissertation

Italian

  • Diana Rosemary Vasquez Espinosa for Academic Progression
  • Davide Alfredo Mule Marchese and Daniela Lydia Brandano for Best Achievement
  • Davide Alfredo Mule Marchese also wins the prize for Best Performance in Italian

Philosophy

  • Joseph Bowen winner of the Keith Jones Prize for Best Performance in Stage 3

Religious Studies

  • Chris Eliadis wins the Religious Studies Prize for excellence in performance, commitment and progression.
  • Joshua Gardner wins the Religious Studies Participation Prize.

The Prizes will be awarded at the Graduation Party on campus.

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