Postgraduate Prize Giving Ceremony 2023

“Our prize-giving ceremony is an annual opportunity for us to reflect on how proud we are of the outstanding work our masters students produce and how fortunate we are of being part of an academic environment that fosters work of such high quality. - Claudio de Magalhães, Head of School

Course Prizes

Dr Ben Clifford, Postgraduate Tutor, introduced the £100 course prizes, which were awarded at the exam board and usually given to the student with the highest average grade across the programme, demonstrating wide ranging academic excellence. We are pleased to announce the following winners:

• MSc Housing and City Planning: Madeleine Pauker
• MSc International Planning: Michael Tormey
• MSc Infrastructure Planning Apprasial and Development: Siddiq Khan
• MSc International Real Estate and Planning: Harry Payne
• MPlan City Planning: Rozaliya Momot
• MSc Spatial Planning: Jessica Darvill
• MRes Intedisciplinary Urban Design: Chloe McFarlane
• MSc Sustainable Urbanism: Hayley Al-Siaidi
• MSc Transport and City Planning: Charles Couve
• MSc Urban Design and City Planning: Milly Warner
• MSc Urban Regeneration: Alex Talbot

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. Congratulations to Ian Teo and Craig Smith (both MSc Transport and City Planning alum), the recipient of this year's Hounsfield prize.

The RTPI Prize

The RTPI prize is awarded each year to a student of merit from the MSc Spatial Planning programme. The MSc Spatial Planning is the School’s core MSc programme providing a general introduction to the theory, context and practice of UK planning. It is the successor to the longstanding MPhil Town Planning. Congratulations to Cecily Joseland, this year's recipient. 

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 and 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. 

Winner of the £500 Holford prize: Zaneb Hussain (MSc International Planning)

Winner of the £1500 Sprott prize: Alex Talbot (MSc Urban Regeneration)