"The Prize Giving Ceremony pays tribute to excellence across the diverse postgraduate work in the Bartlett School of Planning. It was a joy to see these achievements and celebrate with all of the winners."

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Professor Mike Raco, Director of The Bartlett School of Planning

Course Prizes

The £100 course prizes are awarded to students with the highest average grade across the programme, demonstrating wide ranging academic excellence. The winners of this prize are:

StudentProgramme
Javiera Montero Lobos MSc Housing and City Planning
Nauviero SyarifMSc Infrastructure Planning, Appraisal and Development
Chu Lik Hang HugoMSc International City Planning
Isaac MaceMSc International Real Estate and Planning
Miriam ThomsonMSc Spatial Planning
Alexander VarniMSc Sustainable Urbanism
Seren RaymentMSc Transport and City Planning
Aishwarya Rajesh PillaiMSc Urban Design and City Planning
Tony LeeMSc Urban Regeneration
Max HunterMRes Interdisciplinary Urban Design
Ivy LiMRes Interdisciplinary Urban Design
Jiyoon JeongMPlan City Planning

Hounsfield Prize

The Hounsfield prize was founded in 1951 using money donated by Mr and Mrs L Hounsfield to the College to set-up two prizes (the other, in traffic engineering, administered by the Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering) in memory of their late son who had studied at UCL and been interested in the relationship between planning and transport. It is now awarded each year to a student of merit from the MSc Transport and City Planning. The winner of this prize is:

StudentProgrammePrize
Toby LiuMSc Transport and City PlanningHounsfield Prize £200

The Sprott and Holford Prizes

The Sprott Prize was established in 2013 in memory of Trevor Ferguson Sprott OBE, former student of architecture at UCL who went on to become Director of Physical Planning at Grampian Regional Council. It is awarded to the student submitting what is judged, by a panel of academic staff, to be the best overall planning dissertation or major project produced by an MSc student each year. The Holford Prize was established in 1987 in memory of the Rt. Hon Lord Holford, Professor of Town Planning here at UCL from 1948 to 1970.  The prize is awarded to the student submitting what is judged, by a panel of academic staff, to be the second best overall planning dissertation or major project produced by an MSc student each year. The dissertations are reviewed by a panel. The winners of this prize are:

StudentProgrammePrize
Chu Lik Hang HugoMSc International City PlanningSprott Prize £1,500
Wa XiaMSc Urban Design and City PlanningHolford Prize £500

RTPI Student Prize

The RTPI Student Prize is awarded annually by the Bartlett School of Planning and the RTPI to a Spatial Planning student who has shown academic excellence throughout the duration of their course.

StudentProgrammePrize
Peter GroutMSc Spatial PlanningRTPI Student Prize £100

Pumarino Prize

The Pumarino Orbeta prize was established in 2024 in memory of Nicole Pumarino Orbeta, a former MPlan student (2018-20) from Santiago de Chile who undertook a profoundly important distinction level dissertation on ‘Women’s Experiences of Everyday Journeys in Santiago, Chile. This research explores the multiple social and affective geographies of women walking in Santiago, using diaries and sense walking interviews, and pioneered intricate visual modes representation describing their everyday journeys and how these differed in times of social-political unrest. This prize celebrates the best dissertation across the MPlan City Planning and MRes Interdisciplinary Urban Design and is awarded in memory and honour of Nicole and her contribution to our fields.

StudentProgrammePrize
Ivy LiMRes Interdisciplinary Urban Design£500

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