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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is pleased to announce the Student Prizes and Bursaries for the academic year 2024-2025. 

The Georgette Donchin Memorial Prize (£50 biannually)

This is a biannual prize awarded to the second-year undergraduate student who display the best performance on the courses ‘Identities in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature’ or ‘The Petersburg 'Text' in Russian Literature and Culture’ (replacing 'Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century' from 2013-14). Second-year students from both the current and preceding academic year will be considered for the prize.

The Alan Ferguson Memorial Prize (£250)

The prize is awarded to a final-year undergraduate student who has shown excellence in the study of South-East Europe, especially the former Yugoslavia region, in any one of the four programmes: Economics and Business; History; Languages and Culture; Politics and Sociology.

Keith Sword Memorial Prize (£50 biannually)

This is a biannual prize awarded to the final-year undergraduate student who has displayed excellence in Polish studies, taking into account their overall profile of study, as well as performance in relevant modules, including any dissertation. Final-year students from the current and preceding academic year will be considered for the prize.

SSEES »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË (UG) Prize (£50)

The prize is awarded to a final-year undergraduate student who obtains a 1st in their dissertation and an overall mark of a 1st, with no marks below 60.

The Rob Hudson Memorial Prize (£100)

The prize is awarded to a first-year undergraduate student on a language-based degree who has shown excellence in the study of any language at the School, having had no prior knowledge of that language.

The John Marshall Prize (£300)

The prize is awarded to a final-year undergraduate student on a language-based degree, whose overall profile over the years of the degree shows the best performance in any of the languages taught at the School.

The László Péter Memorial Prize (£50)

The prize is awarded to the final-year undergraduate student who displays the best performance in the study of the history of political ideas, either in a final-year dissertation or in the ‘History of European Political Ideas’ module.

The M.J. Youhotsky Memorial Prize (£150)

The prize is awarded to a second-year undergraduate student of Russian who achieves the best overall performance in examinations in Russian subjects.

The Frank Carter Memorial Prize (£300)

The prize is awarded to a final-year MA or MRes student for the best dissertation using original sources in a foreign language.

The Tytus Cytowski Rzeczpospolita Prize

This is a newly established annual prize that will be awarded annually to the best dissertations on the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, its diverse people, and its legacies, within the period 1569-1918. The prize for the best undergraduate dissertation will be US $2000, and for the second-best US $1000. The prize for the best postgraduate dissertation (MA, MRes., MPhil., or PhD degrees) will be US $5000, and for the second-best US $2000.

The Esprit de Corps PrizeÌý(£200)

This award recognises finalist undergraduates who have significantly contributed to student life at the school.