prizes

Social Policy Prizes

Celebrating outstanding achievement

The Department has a number of prestigious prizes to celebrate the outstanding achievements of its graduating students each year.

Undergraduate Prizes

John Hills Prize

Awarded for exceptional contribution to social policy, and established in 2021 to celebrate the distinguished career of Professor Sir John Hills. John made tremendous contributions to social science and his work had a major impact on social policy, especially in relation to poverty and inequality.

Prize recipients for the 2022/23 academic year

Joint winners:

  • Jimin Oh - BSc in International Social & Public Policy
  • Gabor Holtzer - Bsc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics

David Piachaud Prize

Awarded for conspicuous achievement, and established in 2017 to celebrate the distinguished career of Professor David Piachaud. With a career at LSE spanning fifty years, Professor Piachaud is recognised for his world leading research in social security, social exclusion, and child poverty. His close affiliation with the Department continues as Emeritus Professor of Social Policy.

Prize recipients for the 2022/23 academic year

Joint winners:

  • Shaun Pherng - BSc International Social and Public Policy with Economics
  • Sefiat Anjolaoluwa Oluwo - Bsc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics

 

Jane Lewis Prize

Awarded for the best undergraduate dissertation, and established in 2017 to celebrate the distinguished career of Professor Jane Lewis. Professor Lewis is recognised for her world leading research in social policy and administration, social history, and gender studies. Her close affiliation with the Department continues as Emeritus Professor of Social Policy.

Prize recipient for the 2022/23 academic year

Winner:

  • Teniola Moniola Akinola - BSc in International Social & Public Policy

 

Janet Beveridge Award

Awarded for outstanding achievement, was originally established by Lord Beveridge in memory of his wife. William Beveridge was Director of LSE from 1919-1937. Under Beveridge's directorship the School was firmly established as one of the world's leading social science institutions. Outside academia, Beveridge's career was diverse. His most famous contribution to society is the Beveridge Report (officially, the Social Insurance and Allied Services Report) of 1942, the basis of the 1945‐1951 Labour Government's legislation program for social reform.

Prize recipient for the 2022/23 academic year

Winner: 

  • Partha Shetty - BSc International Social and Public Policy with Economics

 

Sir Julian Le Grand Behavioural Public Policy Prize

The Sir Julian Le Grand Behavioural Public Policy Prize is awarded to the student who submits the best essay in Behavioural Public Policy each year. Sir Julian Le Grand, former Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, judges the best essay. All students who are considered for this prize are afforded the opportunity to be published either in the Journal, Behavioural Public Policy, or on the Behavioural Public Policy Blog. 

Prize recipient for the 2022/23 academic year

Winner:

  • Chenxi Li - BSc in International Social & Public Policy

 

 

Departmental Prizes- Prize recipents for the 2022/23 academic year

Awarded to the candidate with the highest mark in SP100 (year 1 core course)

Joint winners:

  • Bronte Eleanor Horsfield - Bsc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics
  • Victoria Epshtein - Bsc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics

 

 

Awarded to the candidate with the highest mark in SP200 (year 2 core course)

Joint winners:

  • Zarina Huq - BSc in International Social & Public Policy
  • Linea Francesca Petrela Paiement - BSc in International Social & Public Policy

 

 

Postgraduate Prizes

 

John Hills Prize

Awarded for exceptional contribution to social policy, and established in 2021 to celebrate the distinguished career of Professor Sir John Hills. John made tremendous contributions to social science and his work had a major impact on social policy, especially in relation to poverty and inequality.

Prize recipient 2022/23

  • Sinndy Betancourt-Caicedo, MSc Criminal Justice Policy

 

Charles Mostyn Lloyd Memorial Prize

Charles Mostyn Lloyd was Head of the Department of Social Administration from1922‐1944. A prize is awarded in his memory for outstanding performance at MSc level.

Prize recipient 2022/23

  • Zarah Sohail, MSc International Social and Public Policy (Development)

Christie Exhibition Prize

The prize, for overall achievement, is awarded in memory of Mary Elizabeth Christie, a former lecturer in the Department of Social Science.

Prize recipient 2022/23

  • Eoin Raftery, MSc Interntaional Social and Public Policy (NGOs)

Delia Ashworth Prize

Mary Isabel Ashworth (known as Delia) studied social science at LSE from 1936‐1938. She bequeathed a sum of money to the School and an award was established in 1971 in her memory. In view of Ms Ashworth's particular interest in social work, this prize is awarded for outstanding performance in an MSc programme by a student likely to pursue a career in this field.

Prize recipient 2022/23

No prize recipients this year.

 

Loch Exhibition Prize

The prize, for merit or achievement, was established by a private benefactor and is awarded in memory of Sir Charles Loch, who spent his life working to improve the welfare of the poor and disadvantaged.

Prize recipients 2022/23

 

  • Md Shaquib Chowdhury, MSc International Social and Public Policy (Development)
  • Harry Crichton-Miller, MSc International Social and Public Policy (Research)
  • Jules Lenoir, MSc International Social and Public Policy (Development)
  • Anna McGuire, MSc Criminal Justice Policy
  • Mariya Sethwala, MSc International Social and Public Policy (Development)

 

Sir Julian Le Grand Behavioural Public Policy Prize

The Sir Julian Le Grand Behavioural Public Policy Prize is awarded to the student who submits the best essay in Behavioural Public Policy each year. Sir Julian Le Grand, former Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, judges the best essay. All students who are considered for this prize are afforded the opportunity to be published either in the Journal, Behavioural Public Policy, or on the Behavioural Public Policy Blog. 

Prize recipients 2022/23

  • Aaratrika Barman- MPA Master of Public Administration

Titmuss Prize

Richard Titmuss was Professor of Social Administration at LSE from 1950 until his death in 1973. His publications on welfare and social policy were radical and wide-ranging, spanning fields such as demography, class inequalities in health, social work, and altruism. 

Titmuss' work played a critical role in establishing the study of social policy as a scientific discipline; it helped to shape the development of the British Welfare State and influenced thinking about social policy worldwide.

Prizes are awarded in his memory for best performance, outstanding performance, best dissertation and outstanding dissertation.

Prize recipients for best performance 2022/23

  • Emma Wells, MSc International Social and Public Policy (Research)

 

Prize recipients for outstanding performance 2022/23

  • Perry De Marche, MSc International Social & Public Policy (Migration)
  • Ella McIntosh, MSc International Social & Public Policy
  • Jessica Oliver, Msc Criminal Justice Policy
  • Mariya Sethwala, Msc International Social & Public Policy (Development)
  • Emma Wells, MSc International Social & Public Policy (Research)
  • Neap Yanith Chea, Msc International Social & Public Policy (Fudan)
  • Nouhaila Zaki, MSc International Social & Public Policy (NGOs)

Prize recipients for best dissertation 2022/23

 

  • Yohei Yoshizawa, MSc International Social & Public Policy (Research)

Prize recipients for outstanding dissertation 2022/23

Winners

  • Perry De Marche, MSc International Social & Public Policy (Migration)
  • Verónica Jaso Martínez, Msc Criminal Justice Policy
  • Salman Shaheen,  MSc International Social & Public Policy
  • Nouhaila Zaki, MSc International Social & Public Policy (NGOs)

Joint Winners

  • Jakob Abekhon, MSc International Social & Public Policy
  • Jacob Alabab-Moser, MSc International Social and Public Policy (Research)
  • Jules Lenoir, Msc International Social & Public Policy (Development)
  • Sergio Perez Schjetnan, MSc International Social and Public Policy (Research)
  • Katheryn Savegnago, Msc International Social & Public Policy (Development)
  • Zarah Sohail, Msc International Social & Public Policy (Development)
  • Emma Wells, MSc International Social & Public Policy (Research)

 

Titmuss PhD Prize

The Titmuss PhD Prize is a prestigious award, made annually, to recognise the most outstanding thesis submitted by a student of the Department. 

Prize recipients 2022/23

Winner: 

Orsola Torrisi

Armed conflict and family outcomes: the consequences of exposure to war on fertility, teen marriage and intimate partner violence
Supervisors: Professor Berkay Ozcan, Dr Arjan Gjonca
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