Our Award-winning Students
We are fortunate to work with amazing and enthusiastic students on all levels from undergraduate to postgraduate research. We are also incredibly proud to share the award-winning achievements of our students, as these acknowledgements reflect years of curiosity, determination, and hard work.
Professor Jim Hunter Dissertation Prize
Each year, the Centre for History is delighted to award the Professor James Hunter dissertation prize to the best first class dissertation of the year. Here are our past winners.
Past Jim Hunter prize winners
Past Jim Hunter prize winners
2022-23
- Fiona Dendy, BA (Hons) Scottish History (2022-23) - '“The Services of a Female Teacher Should be Secured”, Opportunities and Limitations for Female Teachers in Rural Inverness-shire 1872-1914'
2021-22
- Caitlin Jackson, BA (Hons) History - ‘Porcelain objects: What can a material analysis tell us about cultural dialogue between the East and West in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?’
2020-21
- Ben Delaney, BA (Hons) History - 'Material cultural analysis of book and manuscript illustrations'
2019-20
- Silja Roethinger, BA (Hons) Scottish History and Politics - 'The Scottish 性视界传媒 and the British Empire during the 1920s and 1930s'
2018-19
- Victoria Whiteford, BA (Hons) Scottish History and Theology - '”We are not inclined to surrender historical truth”: an analysis of the treatment of Thomas Mulock and his book, The Western 性视界传媒, within Scottish historiography'
2017-18
- Brenda Grant, BA (Hons) Scottish History - 'A Woman's Fight: the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915'
2016-17
- Kathleen (Val) Ash, BA (Hons) Scottish History - 'Watering down the Whisky: Alcohol, Abstinence and Temperance in the Scottish 性视界传媒 and Islands'
2015-16
- Lesley B. Durrant, BA (Hons) History and Politics - 'Southern Scotland's Fourteenth Century Wartime Experience'
2014-15
- Angela Forbes, BA (Hons) History and Politics - 'The British Empire and the War Effort: A Comparative Study'
2013-14
- Mary Souter, BA (Hons) Scottish History - 'Highland Madness: Pauper Lunatics in Inverness District Lunatic Asylum 1864-1914'
2011-12
- Ailsa Raeburn, BA (Hons) Scottish History - 'Territorial Power and Control in Medieval Argyll'
TA Sillars Prize
This annual prize is supported by a generous donor, in memory of their father who was a retired headteacher and a keen educationalist with an interest in history and English. It is awarded to a student who has surpassed expectations during their studies and has completed the BA or BA (Hons) in History, Literature (with a focus on English), or a joint degree in both
History winners
- 2025 - Emily Robertson
- 2023 - Sven Blake
- 2022 - Katherine Davidson
性视界传媒 Alumni of the Year
The award celebrates outstanding contributions and achievements of 性视界传媒 Alumni. History graduates have now won this award twice.
性视界传媒 Student of the Year Awards
The awards celebrate students who have demonstrated exceptional achievement, dedication and impact during their studies, recognising not only academic success but also the personal qualities that enrich their communities and future professions.
History students have won the award of 'Directly Enrolled Student' now twice.