Awards and Prizes
Each year the School of Sociology and Social Policy celebrates the achievements of its undergraduate and postgraduate students with a range of awards and prizes which are presented at a special prize giving ceremony at the school's graduation celebrations in winter and summer.
Many of the awards are generously supported by alumni or have been established to honour outstanding contributions of former members of the school.
School of Sociology and Social Policy prize winners 2025/26
Best First-Class Degree Programme
This award is given to the student whose overall performance in their final year in this school has been outstanding.
BA Criminology and Sociology
Best First-Class Undergraduate Dissertation
This award is given to the student who has scored the highest mark in their dissertation, irrespective of which degree in the school they are studying for.
- Kitty Burch
- Violet Haring
David C Marsh
Awarded annually on the recommendation of the Head of Sociology and Social Policy to the student adjudged to be the best student in all aspects of the work in the first year of any single or joint honours degree in the School of Sociology and Social Policy.
George Norton Memorial Prize
Awarded annually on the recommendation of the Head of Sociology and Social Policy to the student who achieves the highest mark in the Criminology examination, or the student who presents the best dissertation submitted for an Honours Degree in the School of Sociology and Social Policy on a topic within the field of criminology.
- Chloe Donellan
- Freya Kirkman
- Noah McCallig
- Hannah O'Malley
Arthur Radford
Best performance by a final year student in any single or joint honours degree in the School of Sociology and Social Policy.
Bill Silburn
Awarded annually in summer on the recommendation of the Head of Sociology and Social Policy to the student adjudged to be the best student in all aspects of the work in Semester one of the first year of any single or joint honours degree in the School of Sociology and Social Policy.
See our previous years' prize winners