Prizes for current students
The Department of Mathematics awards various prizes at the end of the academic year, based on academic performance.
- Funding: Various
- Academic year: 2023/24
- Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students
- Qualification level: Postgraduate taught and Undergraduate
Our departmental prizes
- P B Kennedy Prize (£250): awarded for outstanding performance in the final course examination in Mathematics.
- Luke Tresloggett Prize (£200): awarded for a student who has had mitigating circumstances during their course.
- Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Prizes x2 (one year's free membership of the IMA): awarded for outstanding final-year performance in a Mathematics course.
- Kathleen Ryan 1st Year Prize (2 x £100): awarded for an outstanding performance in the first year of a single-subject BSc/MMath Mathematics degree programme.
- Kathleen Ryan 2nd Year Prize (2 x £100): awarded for an outstanding performance in the second year of a single-subject BSc/MMath Mathematics degree programme.
- Kathleen Ryan Finalist Prize (2 x £250, maintaining equality with P B Kennedy Prize): awarded for an outstanding performance in the final year of a single-subject BSc/MMath Mathematics degree programme.
- Kathleen Ryan Project Prize (2 x £100): awarded for the best overall BSc and MMath final year project performance.
Eligibility
Open to International (including EU) and UK (home) students.
Open to students in the Department of Mathematics.
All students in the Department are eligible for these prizes.
How to apply
There is no application for these prizes. We automatically consider all students on their academic performance.
How we allocate
The Kathleen Ryan Prizes for 1st-Year and 2nd-Year students are allocated subject to students successfully progressing into the following year, and achieving at least 80% 'engagement' for all Maths modules taken.
Each award will go to the qualifying student who achieves the highest credit-weighted score over all of that year's Maths module marks, provided that this score is at least 70%.
'Engagement' is calculated by considering all assignment marks (formative and summative) and seminar/tutorial attendance marks for Maths modules. We discard any for which the records are missing (eg, if a seminar leader has forgotten to complete their records), then calculate the proportion of remaining marks not equal to 'No script' or 'Not attended'.