Finalist Prizes 2008
The Edgar Palamountain Award for Excellence
In 1993, a solid Gold Medal, ‘The Edgar Palamountain Award forExcellence‘, 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’.
“Winning the Edgar Palamountain Award for Excellence was doubly special for me. The personal recognition was a real honour and a perfect way to end my academic studies, but winning the award from within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences for the first time in many years delightfully enabled me to highlight the brilliantly supportive, talented and passionate tutors I was lucky enough to be taught by.
My experience at Buckingham University was one I will never forget. I met wonderful people from all over the world who enriched my learning and widened my social and cultural knowledge. I benefited greatly from such small, focused tutorial groups and the close relationship I built with my tutors. I felt so lucky to be a part of the University that I even volunteered to be a student representative!”
Suzanne Louise Allington, BA (Hons) English Literature 2008
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.
Sebastian Alexander Bretag, MSc Service Management 2008
Other prize winners
Accounting
| The best performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Daniel Terhorst |
| The John Wheeler Prize for the best graduating student | Daniel Terhorst |
Management
| The Vitalograph Prize for the best graduating MBA student | Richard Andrew Lightbown |
| The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Memorial Prize awarded to the BBE student with the most entrepreneurial spirit | Stefan Stockinger |
| The best performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Julia Dawn Wrigglesworth |
Economics and International Studies
| The best performance in the MA in Biography | Cindy Jansz |
| Recipient of the Ede and Ravenscroft Prize for the best continuing student (Awarded to the following Graduate twice) | Yumiko Takada |
Applied Computing
| The best performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Paul Richard Torrance |
Psychology
| The best performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Mariko Takakura |
Law – September LLM Graduands
| The best performance in the LLM Examinations (shared) | Thomas Durbin Gurdip Singh |
| The Morayo Atoki Prize for a good all-round performance academically and for making an important contribution to the LLM programme (shared) | Omolara Aramide Bello Syed Ali Imran |
Law – January 2008 Graduands
| The Sweet and Maxwell Law Prize for the best performance in the Final Examinations | Alifa Nazia Chowdhury |
| A good performance in the Part 2 Examination | Omosuyi Fred-Omojole |
| 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 | Antoine Troy Lightbourne |
| The McKay Solicitors & Advocates Sports Law Award for the best performance in Sports Law | Atousa Mahmoudpour |
| The Roderick Wu Prize for the best performance in Law of Evidence | Alifa Nazia Chowdhury |
Law – July 2007 Graduands
| The Pettit Prize for best performance in the Final Examinations sponsored by Butterworths | Mwaka Chizinga |
| A good performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Marian Atinuke Okunola |
| The Merit Prize for a good all-round performance academically and making an important contribution to the life of the University | Jennifer Anne Thomas |
| The Tunku Abdul Rahman Prize in International Law | Alifa Nazia Chowdhury |
Law – Part-Time Graduands
| The best performance in the Final Examinations (shared) | Richard Ian Taylor Cheryl Devina Thornley |