23 July 2020

Student prizes 2019-20

Undergraduate excellence in Religions & Theology. Congratulations to Georgia Slater for the Bishop Lee Junior Greek Testament Prize for the best examination result in New Testament Greek and also for the Wellington Scholarship for Hellenistic Greek or Greek Testament; Sarah Adams for the Brandon Memorial Prize (Undergraduate) for the best work in Comparative Religious Studies and also for the Philip Alexander Prize in Jewish Studies for the highest undergraduate grade in Jewish studies (dissertation title: 'The Halakhic Question: Defining Jewish Identity in Reform Judaism in the UK'); Laura Curzydlo for the Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for Religious Studies (dissertation title: 'Gate No.2 and Beyond: Locating Religion in Gdansk’s Solidarnosc Landmarks'); Victoria Turton (dissertation title: 'Construction of Identity by Means of the Discourse of Homeland: Does Visual Media Help Form South Asian Diasporic Subjectivities and at what Cost?') and Javaria Rajput (dissertation title: 'Rationality Culture and Religion: A Critical Analysis of the Representation and Experiences of Mental Health Amongst UK Pakistani Muslims') share the Dastur Kutar Prize for best undergraduate dissertation in Non-Western religious studies; Alice Berkeley (dissertation title: 'Sacred or Safe? A thematic analysis of the #MosqueMeToo Movement') and Emily Bell (dissertation title: 'A Minority Within A Minority: Are Being Homosexual and Being a 'Good' Muslim Mutually Exclusive in Modern Islam?') share the Religion and Social Responsibility Dissertation Prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in R&T that explores a social or ethical challenge at the intersection of religion and social responsibility.