Finalist Prizes 2020

The Edgar Palamountain Award for Excellence

In 1993, a solid Gold Medal, The Edgar Palamountain Medal for Excellence, was instituted in memory of Edgar Palamountain, Chairman of Council at Buckingham from 1979 to 1984. The Award is given every year to the undergraduate who is judged ‘first among equals’.

Charley-Anne Gordon

The Dame Barbara Shenfield Award

In 2005, a solid Gold Medal, The Dame Barbara Shenfield Award, was instituted in memory of Dame Barbara Shenfield, a founder member of the University’s Council. The award will be made annually to the postgraduate who is judged to have achieved the best overall performance of the year.

Richard Jogn Combellack Buckley

The G-Volution Prize for Academic Distinction

This prize is awarded for exceptional academic performance during undergraduate studies at Buckingham.

Anastasia Tamsyn Taylor

The Vice-Chancellor’s Prize

This prize is awarded to the one student who, in the opinion of the Vice-Chancellor, has made the most outstanding contribution to the life of the university.

Daria Ermolenko

Recipients of the Ede and Ravenscroft Prize for Best Continuing Student:

  • Laurie Frances Austen
  • Thomas John Patrick Flaherty

Other prize winners

School of Business

Accounting

  • Mogotsi Motlhajoe: The best performance in Postgraduate Finance
  • Amy Rebecca Proudlock: John Wheeler Prize for the Best Graduating Student
  • Thuheen Miah: The Most Improved performance in the Part 2 Examinations

Enterprise

  • Eniola Zainab Adeleke: The Most Improved performance in the Part 2 Examinations

Management

  • Nelson Andrew Armstrong: Vitalograph Prize for the Best Graduating MBA Student
  • Nicola Leavesley: The best Postgraduate Dissertation
  • Charlotte Brown: The Hans Peter Stein Memorial Prize
  • Nicola Granger: The Shamil Hamid Memorial Prize
  • Sunita Pachabhaiya: The Most Improved Performance in the Part 2 Examination

School of Computing

  • Jamie Sennitt: The British Computer Society Prize
  • Anastasia Tamsyn Taylor: The Zizo Prize for the Outstanding Undergraduate Project

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Emma Elizabeth Olver: The best performance in the MA Decorative Arts
  • Sharon Diane Mather: The best performance in the MA Biography
  • Samantha Carmichael, Sophie Lowde & Hikaru Shimizu: The Clare Morris Prize for the Best Organised All-Round Student Performance within the English Degree programme (shared)
  • Christine Blowfield & Florenta Winger: Davis / Drew Prize for Special Achievement in a Postgraduate Thesis in English Literature (Shared)
  • Pamela Anne Scoular: John Clarke Prize for an Outstanding Research Thesis in History or Biography
  • Alexandra Judit Ruff: The Yolande Hinson Prize for the Best organised All-Round Student Performance in Economics and International Studies

School of Law

  • Thomas Anthony John Cottew: The Best Performance in the LLM Examinations
  • Thomas Anthony John Cottew: The Morayo Atoki Prize for a good all round performance academically and for making an important contribution to the LLM programme
  • Charley-Anne Gordon: The Sweet and Maxwell Law Prize for the Best Performance in the Final Examination
  • Ezinne Maryam Kalu: The Roderick Wu Prize for the Best Performance in Law of Evidence
  • Hollie Vera Dimmock: The Merit Prize offered for a Good All-round Performance academically and who has also made an important contribution to the life of the university
  • Jana Devin Ward: A good performance in the Part 2 Examination
  • Alexander Edward Dombek: The Rachel Lawrence Prie for Mooting and Legal Skills
  • Emma Jane Eastwood: The Butterworths Prize for the Best Performance in the Final Examination
  • Diksha Dahoo: A Merit Prize offered for a Good All-Round Performance Academically and who has also made an important contribution to the life of the University
  • Mia Alexandra Biles & Charley-Anne Gordon: The Tunku Abdul Rahman Prize in International Law (Shared)
  • Yousef Bendahane: A Good Performance in the Part 2 Examination
  • Kevin Alexander Jack: A good performance in the Part 2 Examination for Part-Time

School of Psychology

  • Amy Shelford: The best performance in the MSc Health Psychology
  • Abigail Lucy Moffat: The British Psychological Society Prize
  • Isreal Lemuel Carolino Emmanuel: Prize for the best all-rounder finalist
  • Hannah Rae Copson: The Mike Cawthorne Award for the Best Project

School of Medicine

Phase 2

Cawthorne Cup for Academic Achievement in Phase 1

This prize has been awarded to the student(s) who attains the highest academic performance overall in both the written questions and OSCE stations from the non-qualifying assessments in Phase 1.

Khushali Kukar

Phase 1 Student Selected Component

This Prize has been awarded to the student(s) who attains the highest academic performance overall in their student selected components from both the taught and the library projects.

Maxim John Levy Barnett

Narrative Medicine

This Prize has been awarded to the student(s) who attains the highest academic performance overall in their Narrative Medicine essay as reviewed by a specialist panel.

Gulveer Sehmbey and Rungphloy Jaroenchasri