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Departmental prizes

Each year we award prizes to the students who achieve the highest mark for their dissertation and the best overall degree mark.

Winners are informed after dissertation marks are released and the prize is presented at the reception after graduation.

The dissertation prize was renamed in 2017 to honour the memory of a much loved Sociology Department colleague, Lynn Kilgallon, who was the department manager for many years and who worked tirelessly to help students achieve their best throughout their degrees.


Lynn Kilgallon

Best Overall Degree Performance

  • This goes to the student with the highest grade point average of the cohort.

Lynn Kilgallon Dissertation Prize

  • This goes to the student or students achieving the highest grades for their dissertation from a cohort.

Previous winners

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