Congratulations to Susan Turrell on winning the Student Award 2009

This year students responded to the question "Given your degree, what are you looking forward to in the future?"

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2009 Student Award; Susan Turrell, a postgraduate student from the University of Leeds

The Student Award, open to all UK higher education students studying a pure or applied biological science, aims to raise awareness in the bioscience teaching and learning community of some of the issues affecting students. The competition gives students the opportunity to gain points for their CV, stand out from the crowd, and win up to £100 and an iPod Touch for their entry. The Student Award changed for 2009 - entries could be an essay, a podcast, a video or an online submission (e.g. web page, a blog posting, a wiki or other social media contribution).

This year we received twenty-nine entries, of these ten were short listed from which one winner and two runner-up entries were chosen.

Thank you to all who submitted an entry and congratulations to the winner, Susan Turrell, the runners-up, Clare Cumming and Karen Wilton and all the short listed entrants. The winning, runner-up and short listed entries are available below.

Winner

Susan Turrell, University of Leeds

Runners-up

Clare Cumming, Lancaster University

Karen Wilton, University of Leeds (video - Windows media player required to view)

Shortlisted

Marcus Lawrence, University of Warwick

Melanie Jannaway, University of Leicester

Rachel Henson, University of Cardiff

Wesley Roberts, University of Leeds

Ruth Brown, University of Sheffield

Erald Shehu, Brunel University