4. Assessment

4.16. Prizes

The allocations and nominations for prizes are agreed by the Subject Examination Board in June each year. The School prizes are as follows:

The Coddington Prize for improvement in first-year mathematics and statistics. Alan Coddington was among the initial group of lecturers to be appointed to the newly created Department of Economics in 1966, and he was subsequently a professor in the Department of Economics from 1978 until his death in 1982. Among his duties in 1966 was the teaching of the first year quantitative methods module. One of his students in that year, impressed by the skill and humour which he brought to the task, has established a prize of £100 in his memory to be awarded to the student showing the greatest improvement during their first year in quantitative modules.

The Krystyna Renner Prize for second-year achievement. This prize was established by Mark Renner in 1994 in memory of his mother, and is awarded to a second year student on the basis of both effort and performance, with first preference being given to students on the Economics and Politics programme.

The Kieran Dhaliwal Prize for a second year student based on a combination of academic merit and charity work. Kieran Dhaliwal was a student who had just started his third year when tragically killed in a road traffic accident. This prize is awarded in his memory and was first awarded in 2015.

The Corry Prize for economics projects. Bernard Corry was a professor in the Department of Economics from 1966 until his retirement in 1996, and died in January 2001. He was always a strong advocate of projects, and to mark his many contributions to the Department of Economics, and the economics profession in the UK, his colleagues established an annual prize for the best project. The first award of this prize was made in 1997.

There are also a number of Queen Mary-wide prizes, funded from a variety of sources. These are allocated among Schools on the basis of student numbers. In recent years the School of Economics and Finance has had approximately five awards at our disposal, and these are normally made to final year students on the basis of overall examination performance.