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 2024

The Edgar Palamountain Medal 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’.

Glerisa Proko

The Finito Award

Instituted in 2024, a signet ring will be made annually for the postgraduate who is judged to have achieved the best overall performance of the year.

Luela Shequela Figueira

The G-Volution Prize for Academic Distinction

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

Tessa De Klerk

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.

Audrey Arinolaoluwa Awosika

School of Business

• Sadia Adam: The best performance in the Part 1 Examination for Accounting
• Elena Barron: The best performance in the Part 1 Examination for Management
• Malindi Mwangi: The best performance in the Part 1 Examination for Enterprise
• Glerisa Proko: The most improved Performance in the Part 2 Examination for Accounting
• Ella Petchey: The most improved Performance in the Part 2 Examination for Management
• Frederick Semple: The most improved Performance in the Part 2 Examination for Enterprise
• William Potts: The John Wheeler Prize for the best graduating student
• Denushika Ruwankumar: The Hans Peter Stein Memorial Prize for the student who has made an outstanding contribution to the University
• Edan Spencer: The Shamil Hamid Memorial Prize – awarded to a student who has embodied the positive ethos of the University
• Thomas Penhearow: The Vitalograph Prize for the Best Performance in the MBA Examination
• Jennathul Firdaus Ameen: The best performance for Postgraduate Finance
• Daniel Da Silveira Ferreira Da Silva: V S Mahesh prize for the MSc Service Management student who has shown most commitment to service excellence and against all odds achieved their full potential
• Kavyashree Naigere Kempegowda: The prize for the best postgraduate dissertation

School of Computing

• Abdulkarim Bobboi: The Rhodri J. Jassim Prize for Best Performance in the Part I Examination
• James King: The Zizo Prize for the Outstanding Undergraduate Project
• Navaneeth Narayanappa: The Ruffley Prize for the Outstanding Postgraduate Project
• James King: British Computer Society Prize for the best performance in the Part 2 Stage 2 Examination
• Themiya Damruwan and Pankaj Rai: The Isaac Jassim Award for Best Performance in Postgraduate Studies (shared prize)

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

• Phoebe Arrowsmith: The John and Sylvia Jewkes Scholarship in Economics
• Keely Moorcroft: The best performance in the Part 1 Examination for Economics
• Olivia Williams: The best performance in the Part 1 Examination for International Studies
• Ernestina Pinamang: The best performance in the MA Dissertation module (Summer term) in Security and Intelligence programme
• Madeleine Jones: The best performance in the Part 1 Examination in the English Department
• Igor Gwozdek: The best performance in the Part 1 Examination in the History and Art History Department
• Rena Sato: The best continuing student in French
• James Kiernan: The best Performance in the MA Decorative Arts
• Taylor Hood: The Davis/Drew Prize for special achievement in a postgraduate thesis for English Literature

School of Law

Luela Figueira: The best performance in the LLM examinations

Annabel Awosika and Isaac Beasley: The Morayo Atoki Prize for a good all-round performance academically and for making an important contribution to the LLM programme

Sofia Shashkini: The best performance in the Preliminary Examination

Arushi Singhi: The Rachel Lawrence Prize for an outstanding performance in Mooting and Legal Skills sponsored by Hammicks Legal Information Services / Sir Ivan Lawrence

Syeda Nabiha Wadood: The Roderick Wu Prize for the best performance in Criminal Law

Zainab Hameed and Tessa De Klerk: A good performance in the Part 2 Examination

Wajahat Mahmood: The Merit Prize for a good all-round performance academically and for making an important contribution to the life of the University

Tessa De Klerk: The Roderick Wu Prize for the best performance in Law of Evidence