Finalist Prizes 2009
The Edgar Palamountain Award for Excellence
In 1993, a solid Gold Medal, ‘The Edgar Palamountain Award 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’.
“When I was informed that I had won the Edgar Palamountain Award for Excellence, my reaction was both delight and surprise. Of course I was delighted but I was also very surprised because I had not expected to win the award. It is a great honour to be judged to be primus inter pares.
Buckingham is a great place to study due to its outstanding student:staff ratio and the excellence of its highly motivated teaching staff. I would like to thank all the staff of the Economics and International Studies Department for their fantastic support. I had a wonderful time at Buckingham. I especially enjoyed the academic activities like the seminars, the globalisation sessions and the Economist Club. I met interesting people from all over the world and I made friends with some great people. All in all I enjoyed my time here so much that I decided to stay for my postgraduate degree.”
Philipp Müller, BA (Hons) International Studies with French 2009
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.
“I feel honored to be this years’ receiver of the Dame Barbara Shenfield Award.
My postgraduate studies at The University of Buckingham were both challenging and inspiring, and I would like to express my sincere appreciation to my lecturers and fellow students who all contributed to this great experience. Especially the small group based tutorials and the accessibility of lecturers provided me with the ideal platform to further expand my knowledge, taking the latest findings from
academic research into account.”
Andreas M Widmer, MSc Accounting and Finance 2009
The University Prize for Academic Distinction
This prize is awarded for exceptional academic performance during undergraduate studies at Buckingham.
Ana Grahovac, BSc (Hons) Business Studies 2009
The Ede and Ravenscroft Prize for the Best Continuing Student (shared)
Bayan Abildina, BSc (Hons) Economics with Accounting 2009
Michael Thompson, LLB (Hons) Law, 2009
Other prize winners
Accounting
| The best performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Ronald Chinosengwa |
| The John Wheeler Prize for the Best Graduating Student | Ronald Chinosengwa |
Management
| The Vitalograph Prize for the best graduating MBA student | Dominic Randall |
| The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Memorial Prize awarded to the BBE student with the most entrepreneurial spirit | Thomas Joseph Louis Foddy |
| The Hans Peter Stein Memorial Prize | Romel Pacson |
| The best performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Ana Grahovac |
Computer Science (Sarajevo School of Science and Technology)
| The Best Academic Performance throughout the programme | Džejla Medjedovic Elmedin Selmanovic |
Information Systems (Sarajevo School of Science and Technology)
| The Best Academic Performance throughout the programme | Suncica Hadžidedic |
Psychology (Sarajevo School of Science and Technology)
| The Best Performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Ferdinand Hoffmann Kirsty Anne Lowe |
Applied Computing
| The best performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Jonathan Alexander Crocker Shahmir Hasan Javaid |
School of Law
| The best performance in the LLM Examinations | Amina Abdul-Karim |
| The Morayo Atoki Prize for a good all-round performance academically and for making an important contribution to the LLM programme | Frederic de Lacoste Lareymondie |
Law – January 2009 Graduands
| The Sweet and Maxwell Law Prize for the Best Performance in the Final Examinations | Sofia Papageorge |
| A good performance in the Part 2 Examination | Susan Mirriam Tengatenga |
| 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 | Mark Anthony Fulford |
| The McKay Solicitors & Advocates Sports Law Award for the Best Performance in Sports Law | Sofia Papageorge |
| The Roderick Wu Prize for the best performance in Law of Evidence | Mandeep Sehmbi |
Law – July 2008 Graduands
| The Pettit Prize for Best Performance in the Final Examinations sponsored by Butterworths | Supriya Kundra Anil |
| A Good Performance in the Part 2 Examinations | Jessica Crystal Antoine |
| The Merit Prize for a Good All-round Performance academically and making an important contribution to the life of the University | Bokay Helen Joanne Chung |
| The Tunku Abdul Rahman Prize in International Law | Ozichi Yetunde Nkire |
Law – Part-Time Graduands
| The best performance in the Final Examinations (shared) | Kathryn Hallworth Louise Jane Evans |