Congratulations to all our student prize-winners on their incredible achievements, which highlight the hard work and dedication they’ve put in, especially during what’s been a difficult and challenging year. As Head of the Department, it is always a pleasure to see how passionate and engaged our students are by their subject areas, which is especially epitomised by the success of our prize-winners.
Professor Mike Goodman, Head of the War Studies Department
30 November 2020
War Studies celebrates the successes of 2019-20 students
Annual prizes to the best performing students across bachelors and masters programmes.
The Department of War Studies awards annual prizes to the best performing students across bachelors and masters programmes.
Congratulations to all our prize-winners and we look forward to celebrating your success at the official virtual prize-giving ceremony on 26 January.
Lawrence Freedman Award for the best War Studies Online dissertation
The award has been given annually since 2011/12 to the war studies online student who achieves the highest marked dissertation of the academic year across all three programmes following two assessment boards. The winner receives £100 amazon vouchers.
The 2019/20 prize was awarded to Jisu Lee for her paper entitled ‘Rethinking interdependence: Enabling factors and the Power of Politics in the Horn of Africa’.
We would also like to give a special mention to runner-up Matilda Klein for her outstanding dissertation ‘Gender and sexual violence: epistemological warfare’ which came an exceedingly close second.
Awards for Masters students
The Department of War Studies awards several accolades and a financial prize to the best performing students on our Masters programmes.
The 2019/20 awards are:
- Sir Lawrence Freedman Award for Best Masters Student
Lydia Wachs and Emily Danby
- Barrie Paskins Award for Best MA Dissertation
Hannah Rose
- Directors’ Award for Best MA International Peace and Security
Elizabeth Patricia Brown
Awards for Batchelors students
The department also awards financial prizes to the best performing students on our Batchelors programmes.
The 2019/20 awards are:
- Sir Michael Howard Award for Best Graduating Student in BA War Studies
Pia Doering
- Professor Jack Spence Award for Best Graduating Student in BA International Relations
Carina Thompson and Simon Ahrens
- Saki Dockrill Award for Best Undergraduate Dissertation
Sarah Mohd Nizal
I thank all my fellow classmates and professors for a wonderful learning experience albeit virtually. I highly recommended this course to those that are reluctant to take a year out for a postgraduate degree and put a pause on their career or any professional wanting to develop specialist expertise in the field of international relations to accelerate their career.
Jisu Lee
I am hugely grateful to the department for the support I received, particularly after becoming pregnant with my second child, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. The course itself is fascinating, and provides an opportunity to delve into topics to a depth beyond what is strictly necessary for the particular modules with the support of both academic staff and the excellent student led discussion spaces where students with personal professional as well academic insights are encouraged to discuss, share and support one another's learning.
Matilda Klein