Harris Manchester College students rounded off the academic year with a string of prestigious University prizes for their work, further confirming HMC's reputation for excellence. This success follows the College's third-place finish in the most recent Norrington Table ranking, a new record.
Below is a summary of the prizes awarded to HMC students:
- Anja Segmueller took the Richard Cobb Prize for the best thesis in modern European History. She was also awarded a Gibbs Prize (awarded for the highest average mark over seven papers in the Final Honour School of History)
- Rick Longley was awarded Best Research Project in the Final Honour School of Experimental Psychology
- Bertie Broomfield secured the Law Faculty Prize in Constitutional Law and the Law Faculty Prize in Contract Law
- Joshua Lim received the Braddick Prize (Proxime Accessit) by the Department of Experimental Psychology for the second-best overall performance in prelim papers submitted for the Preliminary Examination in Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics
- Joseph Ng took the Gibbs Prize in Politics for the top performance across all Politics papers
- Aron Szocs received the Chancellor's Prize for Latin Prose Composition, having previously become the first HMC student to be awarded the Gaisford Prize for Greek Prose
- Gideon Tay won the John Hicks Foundation Prize for the best performance in Macroeconomics (Economics & Management candidates).
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Congratulations to our students who did so well in their exams, and won distinguished university-wide prizes. We are all very proud of our students' success. This is a testament to the high academic standards of Harris Manchester students and those who teach them.
Professor Jane Shaw, College Principal