Finalist Prizes 2017
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’.
Dhairya Patel
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.
Dhiya Hamed Ali Al-Saqri
The G-Volution Prize for Academic Distinction
This prize is awarded for exceptional academic performance during undergraduate studies at Buckingham.
Nicholas Austen Whiskerd
The Ede and Ravenscroft Prize for the Best Continuing Student
Matthew Oliver Walker-Roberts
Other prize winners
Accounting
The best performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Yuanfan Liu |
The John Wheeler Prize for the Best Graduating Student | Yuanfan Liu |
The Horlogerie Kandahar Prize for outstanding achievement | Keith Maromo |
Management
The Hans Peter Stein Memorial Prize | Raunak Manoj Runwal |
The Shamil Hamid Memorial Prize | Matthew Campbell Sean Christopher Andrew Ruane |
V S Mahesh Memorial Prize for the MSc Service Management student who has shown most commitment to service excellence and achieved their full potential | Duke Debrah Afrane |
The best performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Daphne Louise Wassenaar |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Davis / Drew Prize for Special Achievement in a Postgraduate Thesis in English Literature | James Andrew Charles Oliver |
The John Clarke Prize for an Outstanding Research Thesis in History or Biography | Jennifer Anne Holmes |
The Horlogerie Kandahar Prize for outstanding achievement | Eleonora Anna Alexandra Winger Suresh Rao |
Prize for the best performance by a postgraduate Art History student | Helen Carter Jonas |
Prize for the best performance by an undergraduate Art History student | Jaspal Maan |
The best performance in the MA in Biography | Katherine Wilkins |
School of Science
Applied Computing
The British Computer Society Prize | Nicholas Austen Whiskerd |
The Friends of the University of Buckingham Prize for special achievement at Part 2 | Timothy Yiu-Kwong Yung |
Psychology
The British Psychology Society Prize | Abigail Jalkhi |
The Friends of the University of Buckingham Prize for special achievement at Part 2 | Samantha Lok Tung Mui |
The Horlogerie Kandahar Prize for outstanding achievement | Jenna Louise Gillett |
School of Law
LLM Graduands
The best performance in the LLM Examinations | Susan Sina Diden Tishina Ramkishun |
The Morayo Atoki Prize for a good all-round performance academically and for making an important contribution to the LLM programme | Obinna Jean-Louis Dike Nwadike |
Law – January 2016 Graduands
The Horlogerie Kandahar Prize for outstanding achievement | Murdoch Cameron Cosgrove Thomson |
The Sweet and Maxwell Law Prize for the Best Performance in the Final Examinations | Dhairya Patel |
The Roderick Wu Prize for the Best Performance in Law of Evidence | Nkechi Juliana Ugwu |
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 | Ariana Caines Camardia Higgs William Neil |
A good performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Michael James Pollard Shanghai Jian Lin Jen |
The Rachel Lawrence Prize for Mooting and Legal Skills | Nkechi Juliana Ugwu Joshua Cullen |
Law – July 2016 Graduands
The Butterworths Prize for the Best Performance in the Final Examinations | Samir Singh Chhina Sabrina Kon |
The Merit Prize for a Good All-round Performance academically and for making an important contribution to the life of the University | Syed Ahmed Shah |
The Tunku Abdul Rahman Prize in International Law | Michael James Pollard |
A Good Performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Minal Rehan Naseem |
Law – Part-time Graduands
The best performance in the Final Examinations | Steffi Nials |