Graduation Prizes

A variety of prizes are awarded at Graduation which allow the University to recognise academic excellence and the contribution individual students make to the University as a whole. Many of the prizes have been generously donated by supporters of the University as well as Buckingham alumni and include The Edgar Palamountain Award for Excellence and The Dame Barbara Shenfield Award. These prizes are awarded annually to the best undergraduate and postgraduate student respectively.

Finalist Prizes 2022

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’.

Yevheniia Loik

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.

Wissem Redjem

The G-Volution Prize for Academic Distinction

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

Daisy Anne Tydd Daymond & Marco Rex Germanier Torrado

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.

Zikang Li

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

Glerisa Proko

Other prize winners

Accounting

Abderrahmane Mezdidioua: The best performance in Postgraduate Finance
Philip Simon Michael Martin: John Wheeler Prize for the Best Graduating Student
Yiman Ni: The Most Improved performance in the Part 2 Examinations

Enterprise

Hugo Matthew Jean Cousin: The Most Improved performance in the Part 2 Examinations

Management

Kristen T Matthen: Vitalograph Prize for the Best Graduating MBA Student
Daisy Anne Tydd Daymond: The Hans Peter Stein Memorial Prize
Victoria Bronwyn Cummings: The Shamil Hamid Memorial Prize
Sweta Srivastava: The V S Mahesh memorial prize for the MSc Service and Management student who has shown the most commitment to service excellence and achieved their full potential
Jodie Keough: The best Postgraduate Dissertation
Murray McCartney: The Most Improved Performance in the Part 2 Examination

School of Computing Prizes

Thomas Edward Fulat Humphreys: The British Computer Society Prize
Thomas Edward Fulat Humphreys: The Zizo Prize for the Outstanding Undergraduate Project
Wissem Redjem: The Ruffley Prize for the Outstanding Postgraduate Project

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Rebecca Walker: The best performance in the MA Decorative Arts
Elizabeth Margaret Batey: The best performance in the MA Biography
Barima Kwame Adu-Gyimah & Jade Miller: The Clare Morris Prize for the Best Organised All-Round Student Performance within the English Degree programme (shared)
Tilly Smith: Davis / Drew Prize for Special Achievement in a Postgraduate Thesis in English Literature
Sarah Helen Harkness: John Clarke Prize for an Outstanding Research Thesis in History or Biography
Benjamin Peter Kleboe: The Yolande Hinson Prize for the Best organised All-Round Student Performance in Economics and International Studies

School of Law

Angelo Vito Falsini: The Best Performance in the LLM Examinations
Craig Dell: The Morayo Atoki Prize for a good all-round performance academically and for making and important contribution to the LLM Programme
Mayowa Molawa Olagunju: The Sweet and Maxwell Prize for the Best Performance in the Park 2 Examination
Mahima Khatun, Anna Mueller, Nisaat Ara Roojee and Afeefa Asgar Salehmohamed: 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 (Shared)
Natasha Emily Bennie: The Butterworths Prize for the Best Performance in the Final Examination
Eva Madekube Natalya Harouni James: A Good Performance in the Part 2 Examination
Nigel Donohue: A Good Performance in the Part 2 Examination for Part-Time

School of Psychology

Lydia Violet Tidmarsh: The best performance in the MSc Health Psychology
Sophie Pizzol: The British Psychological Society Prize
Lauren Marie Cox: Prize for the best all-rounder finalist
Sophie Pizzol: The Mike Cawthorne Award for the Best Project

School of Medicine

Phase 2

The Stewert Persen Prize

The Stewert Peterson Prize is awarded annually to the student who has performed best overall in the MB ChB Course, demonstrating the greatest degree of all round excellence.

Duncan Frazer Clark

Academic Achievement in Phase 2

This prize is awarded to the student(s) who attains the highest academic performance overall in the MBChB written papers taken in Phase 2 of the course.

Aaron Omar Khan

Clinical Achievement in Phase 2

This Prize is awarded to the student(s) who attains the highest academic performance overall in the MB ChB clinical examinations in Phase 2 of the course.

Tabitha Katherine May Gould

E-Portfolio Excellence

This prize is awarded to the student who has consistently demonstrated the Professional Values outlined by the General Medical Council through portfolio learning.

Christopher Michael Ford

The spirit of Buckingham Medical School

This Prize is awarded by the final year students to their peer(s) who they feel embodies the spirit of the Buckingham Medical School. An Individual who the students consider to have made and all-round contribution, demonstrated the highest professional values and team working skills. An individual who has had the most positive impact both within and outing the UBMS community.

Hilary Jean Marren Regan and Rayma Alaise Camacho Risquet.

Phase 1

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.