The event on 14th July, involving 2025 undergraduates and postgraduates, was a great opportunity for academic staff, graduates, and friends and family to come together to celebrate our students' fantastic achievements.
It was also a chance to honour the 2025 award winners and for Head of School Professor Karen West to present the awards to those who were able to attend.
The 2025 undergraduate prize winners were:
Lindsay Chaplin Memorial Prize
Madeline Gibbs - Criminology with QRM
This prize has been established in honour of outstanding student Lindsay Chaplin (BSc (Hons) Childhood Studies with Quantitative Research Methods, 2014-2018) and is awarded to candidates who have demonstrated a similar passion and engagement with quantitative study as Lindsay did during their time in the School for Policy Studies.
Best dissertation – Childhood Studies
Charlotte Hicks
Best dissertation – Criminology
Emily Pont
Best dissertation – Social Policy
Jack Ferguson
Poppy Woolaston
Best dissertation – International Social and Public Policy with study abroad
Charmaine Sew Fan Ning
Citizenship Award
Award given in recognition of outstanding contribution to university life or the wider community.
- Isabella Greenwood – Criminology
- Madeline Gibbs - Criminology with QRM
- Alice Brader – Criminology
- Jess Nathan-Wilson – Criminology
- Lydia Foulkes – Criminology
- George Burch – Social Policy
- Lois Feld – Social Policy and Sociology
- Jessica Risden – Social Policy and Sociology
- Mushtaaq Hassan - International Social and Public Policy
- Imogen Smith – International Social and Public Policy
- Elisha Verebes - International Social and Public Policy
- Grace Brooks – Childhood Studies
- Maeve Thorp-Jones – Childhood Studies
- Elizabeth Josie Parker – Criminology
- Joe McNulty Peres – Crimonology with Study Abroad
- Nia Morgan – Social Policy
- Tamryn Nicol - Social Policy with Criminology
- Charmaine Sew Fan Ning - International Social and Public Policy
Congratulations to all our 2025 graduates. We wish you all well in the future. Keep in touch!