Prizes

Various parts of our degree programmes attract prizes awarded by major companies including Accenture, British Airways, Deloitte, and Hewlett Packard.

Teams from the University also regularly enter the IBM Universities Business Challenge. In 2003-2004 a Computing Science team were victorious at the Grand Final. See the photo.

StagePrize/SponsorValueAwarded forPrizewinners
Entry to UG studyUndergraduate Entry Excellence ScholarshipsVarious amounts depending on the specific award given.Outstanding performance on entry gradesUndergraduate Entry Excellence Scholarship Prizewinners
1BCS£125Outstanding PerformanceBCS Prizewinners
1Deloitte Technology Prize£100Best overall performance for a Stage 1 IS studentStage 1 Information Systems Prizewinners
1 Coding Kitchen Prize,
School of Computing Science
£350 Best implementation in Round 2 Coding Kitchen Prizewinners
1WaterstonsPaid summer internship and laptop Stage 1 performance and Interview performance Waterstons Prizewinners
2 Accenture and IBM £500
(for the group)
Team Project (the winners of this prize go forward into the IBM national Thinkpad Challenge) Team Project Prizewinners
2Scott Logic

One prize of £200 and 4 prizes of £100

Best five overall performances by Stage 2 CS students assessed on examination and project resultsScott Logic Prizewinners
2

Deloitte Technology Prize

£100Best overall performance for a Stage 2 IS studentStage 2 Information Systems Prizewinners
3Scott Logic (see prizewinners listing)Best Final Year Project Posters Posters Prizewinners
3Deloitte Technology Prize£100 of vouchersBest project by a Stage 3 IS studentBest Project Prizewinners
3HP Services Ltd£100 of vouchersBest project by a Stage 3 CS studentBest Project Prizewinners
3School of Computing Science £100 of vouchersBest overall performance for a Stage 3 CS studentStage 3 Computing Science Prizewinners
3School of Computing Science £100 of vouchersBest overall performance for a Stage 3 IS studentStage 3 Information Systems Prizewinners
MSc Computing Science The Colin Graham Group Project Prize sponsored by Accenture£350
(for the group)
Group Project PrizeThe Colin Graham Group Project Prize-winners
All MScsPhilip Merlin£250MSc DissertationPhilip Merlin Prizewinners
MSc Computer Security and Resilience Deloitte Technology Prize£150Best performing student in taught modules in the MSc CSR Deloitte Prizewinners
MSc Computer Game Engineering various T-Shirts and Games Best gameplay aspects of a Group Project Group Project Prizewinners
MSc Computer Game Engineering various   Best overall student on MSc Computer Game Engineering Best MSc Games student prizewinners
MSc Computer Game Engineering various   Best project by a MSc Computer Game Engineering student Best MSc Games project
MSc Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology School of Computing Science £20 each Group project prize Best MSc Bioinformatics group project

Undergraduate Entry Excellence Scholarship Prizewinners

YearStudent
2010 entry MJ Aitchison, B Baccino, J Bennett, S Brown, M Craven, S Crow, C Delaney, LJ Douglas, F Downey, A Dressen, D Dunn, IME Gausden, SM Greaves, M Grublys, D Jamieson, B Johnson, R Jones, J Kirkby, M Kitchen, SW Leighton, E Mamalaki, AJ Manning, R Mc Veigh, L Murphy, W Musialkiewicz, D Quinn, JDR Redmond, J Rodgers, C Shepherd, M Sullivan, L Watson, A Zubkovas.
2009 entry T Allen, T Cinga, J Cooke, K Fisher-Mather, R Foreman, L Goodacre, G Gustas, J Hannon, SJ Joyce, R Livermore, P McCorry, J-L McLeish, MC Ndlovu, SG Stonehouse, DJ Thompson, GD Thornton, D Timmins.
2008 entry I Archambeau, L Branescu-Mihaila, S Brown, MA Bruce, APJ Crabbe, RD Laverick, R Leung, C Menelaou, N Nelkinas, W Parsonage, G Radu, M Rapoportas, TJ Rydzewski, M Scott, DS Shaw, L Sukys, N Theodorou.
2007 entryJ Buckman, A Budreckis, JG Drummond, OJW Flaxman, C Gilpin, S Hogarth, M Jaworksi, MW Joiner, WLA Martin, DJ Ogle, DG Ross, GP Ross, RM Simmonds, R Warwick, J Webster, P Wilkinson, AJ Williamson, A Wilson.
2006 entryM Simmons, D White, T Corbett, MJ Forshaw, DJ Nesbitt, MA Savy, AW Walton, L. Yewdall.

Stage 1 BCS Prizewinners

The Stage One prize awarded for Outstanding Performance and presented by the BCS has been won by the following students:

YearStudent
2009-2010 William G. Slater
2008-2009 Gabriel Radu
2007-2008James Murray
2006-2007Duncan White
2005-2006Matthew Lovert
2004-2005Richard N. Payne
2003-2004Jose Marcelino
2002-2003Richard J. Payne
2001-2002Geoff Martin
2000-2001Chris Hern
1999-2000Martin Ellis
1998-1999Thomas Seed
1997-1998Gary Johnson

Stage 1 Deloitte Technology Prize for Information Systems Students Prizewinners

Deloitte sponsors the prize for Best overall performance by an Information Systems student for Stage 1.
Deloitte offers a number of career opportunities related to information systems including Technology Assurance & Advisory, Technology Integration and Tax Management Consulting. For more information, and to apply, log on to www.deloitte.co.uk/graduates

2009-2010 Daniel J. Thompson
2008-2009 Oliver J. Turner
2007-2008Daniel Rose
2006-2007John W. Nicholson

Stage 1 Coding Kitchen Prize

The prize is awarded for best implementation in Round 2 for the Coding Kitchen and is presented by the School of Computing Science.

2008-2009Scott Walton

Stage 1 School of Computing Science Information Systems Prizewinners

The Stage One prize awarded for best overall performance to an Information Systems students, presented by the School of Computing Science has been won by the following students:

2005-2006J. Nicholson
2002-2003 J.P. O'Keefe, P.Zhang.
2001-2002C. Franks

Stage 1 Waterstons Prizewinners

The Stage One prize is based on Stage 1 performance. Students are shortlisted and interviewed for the prize. The winner is the student who performs best at interview.

 
2009-10 Gabriel Mason
2008-09Gabriel Radu

Stage 2 Team Project Prizewinners

The Stage Two prize awarded for best Team Project and presented by IBM has been won by the following students

2009-2010 Alex Crabbe, Ramin Esfandiari, Nathan Gray, Chrysanthos Lianos, Helen Martin, Amy Wilson.

Stage 2 Team Project Prizewinners

The Stage Two prize awarded for best Team Project and presented by Accenture and IBM has been won by the following students.

 
2008-09 Zac Bassett, Harrison Bennett, David Carroll, Bradley Fail, Thomas Harnasz, Sam Hogarth, James Mackay, Daniel Ross, Jonathan Smith, Lazaros Tirekidis

Stage 2 Logica Prizewinners

The Stage Two prize awarded for best Group Project and presented by Logica has been won by the following students.

2007-2008Ali Al Saleh, Zoltan Balogh, Philip Green, Julie McMullan, John Nicholson, David Silburn, Andrew Welsh View Photo
2006-2007Matthew Brook, Andy Chow, Matthew Clark, Jonathan Cockburn, Emma Darren, Marcus Speed. View Photo
2005-2006Stephen Baines, Chris Barber, Hamzah El-Husseini, James Ellison, Rory Harvey, Antonis Lambrou, Oliver LiebscherView Photo
2004-2005Waleed Al Hadhrami, Michael Broadwood, Paul Dunlop, Jonathan. Hook, Jian Song, Emma Soullier, Robert Stiff
2003-2004Christopher Franks, Stephen Lindsay, Christopher Mallon, Richard Payne, Carl Renton
2002-2003David Abernethy, Richard Gate, Jigun Kim, Simon Laing, Will McElderry, Robert Morrell, James Pringle
2001-2002Jonathan Bainbridge, Oliver Edgell, Sean Gray, Harry Mowat, Chris Neale, Karl Potts
2000-2001gold starAndrew Crookham, Souhail Malik, Chris Mountford, Ed Patmore, Oyvind Stolen
This team also won the IBM Thinkpad Challenge competition
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1999-2000Sarah Burgess, Alex Hark, Odd Arne Jensen, Helen O'Keeffe, Simon Ruparelia, Paul Sanctuary

Stage 2 Scott Logic Prize for Academic Achievement for Computing Science Students

The Stage Two prize awarded for the best five overall performances by Computing Science students and presented by Scott Logic has been won by the following students:

2009-10 Gabriel Radu, Christopher Ellis, David Shaw, Ranjeet Singh, Laurynas Sukys.
2008-09 Viktor Georgiou, John Mace, Anastasia Steiner, Marek Jaworski, Sam Hogarth
2007-08

MJ Bell, TG McKee, AW Walton, M Simmons, D White

2006-07N. Bradshaw, M.D. Clark, J. Cockburn, M. Lovert , C. Sharp
2005-06Q.Z. Chaudry, J.P. Ellison, A. Lambrou, R.N. Payne, M.U. Sadjid

Stage 2 Deloitte Technology Prize for Information Systems Students Prizewinners

Deloitte sponsors the prize for Best overall performance by an Information Systems student for Stage 2.
Deloitte offers a number of career opportunities related to information systems including Technology Assurance & Advisory, Technology Integration and Tax Management Consulting. For more information, and to apply, log on to www.deloitte.co.uk/graduates

2009-2010 Amy Wilson
2008-2009 Aurimas Budreckis
2007-2008John W Nicholson
2006-2007Marcus Speed

Stage 2 School of Computing Science Information Systems Prizewinners

The Stage Two prize awarded for best overall performance to an Information Systems students, presented by the School of Computing Science has been won by the following students:

2007-2008Daniel J. Nesbitt
2005-2006Nathan A. Burn

Stage 3 Posters Prizewinners

The Stage Three prizes awarded for Best Final Year Project Posters presented by Scott Logic have been won by the following students:

2010-2011

CS prize - £100 of vouchers. Nicolas Sharp (Wireless Senor Networks)
IS prize - £100 of vouchers. Mark Richards (A cross-platform climbing appliction for the modern climber)

 
The Stage Three prizes awarded for Best Final Year Project Posters presented by Codeworks have been won by the following students:

 

 
2009-2010 CS prize - £100 of vouchers. Thomas Thackstone, (Ambient iPhone Music Application)
IS prize - £100 of vouchers. Aurimas Budreckis, (User Authentication on Portable Touch-Screen Devices)
 
2008-2009CS prize - £100 of vouchers. Andrew Gill (Relaxation Using Biometric Sensors).
IS prize - £100 of vouchers. Iain Riley (Can You Remember?).

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2007-2008CS prize - £100 of vouchers. Mike Simpson (Visualise String Searching).
IS prize - £100 of vouchers. Scott Salisbury (Expense Claim System).

2006-2007

CS prize - £100. Laura Beeby (Virtual University).
IS prize - £100. Graham Dorrington (How can new e-businesses survive and prosper?)

2005-2006

CS 1st prize - a Palmone PDA. Chee Wei Tan (Messaging Web Service)
CS 2nd prize - a selection of computer games. Jonathan Hook (Tabletop Interfaces)
IS 1st prize - a Palmone PDA. Paul Dunlop (Web-based Content Management System)

2004-2005

CS 1st prize - a mini-ipod. Chris Johnson (Environment Visualisation)
CS 2nd prize - a Eutechnyxs Street Racing syndicate game. Ken Kuang (Airport Ground System)
IS 1st prize - a mini-ipod. Carl Renton (School Learning Support)

Stage 3 British Airways Prizewinners

The Stage Three prize awarded for Outstanding Performance and presented by British Airways has been won by the following students:

2007-2008Matthew LovertView Photo
2006-2007Ian Addison
2005-2006James Thomas
2004-2005Jon McNestrie
2003-2004Marios Andreou
2002-2003Christopher Hern
2001-2002 Simon WoodmanView Photo
2000-2001 Thomas Seed
1999-2000 Vegard Brox
1998-1999Alexios BoukouvalasView Photo

Stage 3 School of Computing Science, Computing Science Prize

The Stage Three prize awarded for best performance by an Computing Science student and presented by the School of Computing Science has been won by the following students:

2010-2011 Laurynas Sukys View Photo
2009-2010 John Mace  
2008-2009Duncan White View Photo

Stage 3 School of Computing Science, Information Systems Prize

The Stage Three prize awarded for best performance by an Information Systems student and presented by the School of Computing Science has been won by the following students:

2010-2011 Amy Wilson (£100) View Photo
2009-2010 Aurimas Budreckis (£100)  
2008-2009 John Nicholson (£100)View Photo
2005-2006Cliff Kamara (£100)
2004-2005Leon Duffield (£500)
2003-2004S. Buckley (£500)
2002-2003M.A. Lord (£500)

Stage 3 Deloitte Technology Prize: Best Project by an Information Systems Student Prizewinners

Deloitte sponsors the prize for Best Project by an Information Systems student for Stage 3.
Deloitte offers a number of career opportunities related to information systems including Technology Assurance & Advisory, Technology Integration and Tax Management Consulting. For more information, and to apply, log on to www.deloitte.co.uk/graduates

2010-2011 Victoria Howarth View Photo
2009-2010 Christopher Davies  
2008-2009John Nicholson View Photo
2007-2008James NicholsonView Photo
2006-2007David Lish

Stage 3 HP Services Ltd, Best Project by a Computing Science Student Prizewinners

The Stage Three prize awarded for best project by a Computing Science student and presented by HP Services Ltd has been won by the following students:

2010-2011 Steven Woodhouse View Photo
2009-2010 Viktor Georgiou  
2008-2009Andrew Gill View Photo
2007-2008Gary SmillieView Photo
2006-2007Richard White

Stage 3 School of Computing Science, Outstanding Project Prize

The Stage Three prize awarded for an outstanding project and presented by the School of Computing Science has been won by the following students:

2009-2010 Sam Hogarth (£100)  
2008-2009Michael Bell (£100) View Photo

Stage 3 School of Computing Science, Best Project Prize

The Stage Three prize awarded for best project and presented by the School of Computing Science has been won by the following students:

2005-2006Jonathan Hook (£100)
2003-2004Rachel Mallette (£250)

Stage 3 Arjuna Prizewinners

The Stage Three prizes awarded for the best five overall performances assessed on examination and project results and presented by Arjuna have been won by the following students:

2003-2004M.S. Andreou, C.J. Lamprecht, G. Martin
2002-2003C.M. Hern, K. Storey, D.S. Challinor, R. Martin
2001-2002S.W. Campbell, M.A. Ellis, N.P. Jefferson, D.M. Moody, E.R. Patmore, P. Robinson, S.J. WoodmanView Photo
2000-2001S.J. Aaron, J. Bradley, T.J. Charlton, A.L. Hark, T.P. Seed, E. Vollset and J.W. Walker

MSc Sage Prizewinners

The MSc prize awarded for First Semester Programming for £250 and presented by Sage has been won by the following students:

2002-2003Yuxiang Wang
2001-2002 Edward (Kook Mong) YuView Photo
2000-2001Jennie GrayView Photo
1999-2000Will Stephenson
1998-1999Jon Burton and Nick CookView Photo

MSc The Colin Graham Group Project Prize-winners

The Colin Graham Group Project Prize is awarded for the best MSc Group Project. It is sponsored by Accenture has been won by the following students. Prior to academic year 2000-2001 this prize was called the Andersen Consulting Prize.

2009-2010 Ahmed Alghamdi, Jonathan Franklin, Eddy Putra, Tom Smith  
2008-2009 Phillip Armstrong, Bruno Casari, Daniel Currie, Safni Marwa, Mark Whiffing.  
2007-2008Georgios Angelides, Robin Broad, John Cooper, Joseph Dowland, Tola Famakinwa.View Photo
2006-2007Hussam A. Al-Belaihe, Matt Davis, Ian Dixon, James O. Freiwirth
2005-2006Muhamad Abu-Much, Annabel Holloway, Zhiqiang Ma, Aman Puri, Ahmad Salah El Ahmad.
2004-2005Keith Jones, Grigorios Kamateros, Nzie Okpokam, Yuan Shen, Shen Wei Zhang.
2003-2004R. Bond, S. Fan, C.J. Gamble, J. Han, P. Ko, Y. Zhao.
2002-2003Yuhui Chen, Michael McDaid, Rakesh Dogra, Mark Gent, Bozena Stansfield, Minjie Sun, Qiong Wang.
2001-2002T.S. Burns, H.C.S. Kwan, M.W. MacPherson, S.A.Y. Naqvi, K.M. Yu, Fei ZuoView Photo
2000-2001J.P. Baddeley, C.J. Carver, M.C. Chantrell, Justin Ferris, C.N. Gustiarti, G.D. Haworth, Thomas Hill, Anthony Johnston, Norman McLean, I.A. Muftach, Steven Paddock, John Rajakulendran, Joel Ross, D.R. WymerView Photo
1999-2000Will Stephenson, Anil Wipat, Said Al Harthy, Rob Head, Rod Cullen, Maggie McLernon

MSc Philip Merlin Prizewinners

The MSc Philip Merlin prize awarded for the best MSc Dissertation has been won by the following students:

2009-2010 Marc Savy  
2008-2009 Mike Simpson  
2007-2008Adam D. WaltonView Photo
2006-2007Samantha Lycett
2005-2006Ahmad Salah El Ahmad
2004-2005Jonathan Beardall
2003-2004Anthony Burdett, James Worthington
2002-2003Simon Todd
2001-2002Fengyun LuView Photo
2000-2001J.R. Ford
1999-2000 Nick Cook, Andrew Walker, Wenbin Wei

MSc Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Group Project Prize

The prize for the best group project by students on the MSc Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology has been won by the following students:

 
2009-2010 Haakon Bervan, Monica Bhaskar, Fergus Fairmichael, Peter Hebden, Andrew King, Akshay Shah. View Photo
2008-2009 Mohammed Khalfan, Hang Zhao, Craig Turner, Iwo Bohr, Omonefe Takpimivbiomo.

Deloitte Technology Prize for MSc Computer Security and Resilience

The Deloitte prize awarded for the best overall performance in "taught" modules has been won by the following students:

2009-2010 Jack Weeden View Photo
2008-2009 Robert Cain  
2007-2008Adam P. Sutton View Photo

MSc Computer Game Engineering Group Project Prize

The prize for the best gameplay aspects for a group project has been won by the following teams:

 
2009-2010 (Presented by Media Molecule) Stuart Page, Henry Prescott, Arjun Sharma, Huajie Wang.
2008-09 (Presented by Midway) Mike Simpson, Gary Smillie, Yong Su

MSc Computer Game Engineering best overall student prize

The prize for best overall student on the MSc Computer Game Engineering has been won by the following students:

 
2009-2010 (Presented by Bizarre Creations) Henry Prescott View Photo

MSc Computer Game Engineering prize for best project

The prize for best project by an MSc Computer Game Engineering student has been won by the following students:

 
2009-2010 (Presented by Eutechnyx) Stuart Page

MSc Computing Science School of Computing Science prize for Best Project

The School of Computing Science prize for best project by an MSc Computing Science student has been won by the following students:

2009-2010 Abdalnaser Algwil
2007-2008Thomas Hibbert

MSc Arjuna

The MSc  prizes awarded for the best overall performance assessed on examination and project results, presented by Arjuna, have been won by the following students:

2003-2004Stefanus Hartanto
2002-2003Yan Wang, Fiona Milligan.
2001-2002C. Bloom, E.T. WheelhouseView Photo
2000-2001J. Jillians, L.C. MillarView Photo

SDIA JBoss

The SDIA prizes awarded for the best overall performance, presented by JBoss, have been won by the following students:

2005-2006Chris Johnson

SDIA Arjuna

The SDIA  prizes awarded for the best overall performance, presented by Arjuna, have been won by the following students:

2003-2004Anusuriya Devaraju
2002-2003J.B. Jones
2001-2002A.B. Harrison and E.VollsetView Photo