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20 July 2026

Undergraduate Excellence 2025-26

Student Prizes. Congratulations to this year’s prize-winners in Religions & Theology! Ethan Thompson (second year) receives the Bishop Lee Junior Greek Testament Prize for the best examination result in New Testament Greek. The David S. Bles Hebrew Prize goes to Daisy Oakley (second year). Archie McConnell (History) receives the Philip Alexander Prize for the highest module grade in undergraduate Jewish Studies. The Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for Religious Studies for the best dissertation is awarded to Edward Bullock for his project ‘To what extent can Levinas’ philosophical position in Totality and Infinity withstand the critique of Infinity presented in Derrida’s ‘Violence and Metaphysics’?’. The Brandon Memorial Prize for the best work in comparative religion is awarded to Niamh Hardman for the dissertation ‘Writing in the Margins: An Autoethnographic and Discourse-Analytical Investigation of the Anglican Sunday School Teacher’. The Dastur Kutar Prize for best undergraduate dissertation in Non-Western Religious Studies is awarded to Noah Bouharri for his work on ‘The UK Degree as Moral and Ritual Achievement: A Confucian Reading of Chinese Overseas Student Experience’. The Religion and Social Responsibility Dissertation Prize for the best undergraduate dissertation that explores a social or ethical challenge at the intersection of religion and social responsibility is awarded to Amelie Brooks for ‘From Vice to Idol: Greed and Christian Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis’.