2021 dissertation prizes announced
Congratulations to our winners! The prizes were awarded as follows:
Overall Winner (across all Q-Step subjects)
- Winner: Qingcheng Zeng
- Dissertation title: Automatic Sociophonetics: Investigating Language Variation in General Northern English with Machine Learning Based Classification Methods
- Programme: BA Linguistics
- Supervisor: Patrycja Strycharczuk
Sociology prize
- Winner: Rebecca Clews
- Dissertation title: An exploration of the relationship between working-class women’s political engagement and a perceived lack of political efficacy
- Degree programme: BSocSc Sociology
- Supervisor: Yaojun Li
Politics prize
- Winner: Charlie Bird
- Dissertation title: A Digital Megaphone? An Examination of the Labour Party’s Use of Twitter to Communicate with the Public
- Degree programme: BA Social Sciences (Politics & Sociology)
- Supervisor: Charles Bird
Linguistics prize
- Winner: Qingcheng Zeng
- Dissertation title: Automatic Sociophonetics: Investigating Language Variation in General Northern English with Machine Learning Based Classification Methods
- Programme: BA Linguistics
- Supervisor: Patrycja Strycharczuk
Criminology prize
This year there were two joint winners for the Criminology prize:
- Winner: Anja Lampesberger
- Dissertation title: Occupational fraud in England and Wales – an analysis using the Commercial Victimisation Survey 2012-2018
- Programme: BA Criminology
- Supervisor: Professor Nick Lord
- Winner: Ashleigh Hill
- Dissertation title: An exploratory secondary data analysis to understand the use of conducted energy devices as a method of force by the police in England and Wales
- Programme: BA Criminology
- Supervisor: Dr Laura Bui