Awards
During its first year of operation, the University of Cumbria, staff and students
celebrated several notable successes.
The 2008 Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards recognised PhD graduate Dr Lindsey Winterton was awarded a
the outstanding work of university students in a glittering British Educational Research Association/Sage Publications
ceremony at the Sage, Gateshead. BA Media Production Research into Practice Award at London University’s
students Andrew Elliot, Gary Cupid and Hannah Merridale Institute of Education. Her work investigated the
picked up the top student award for drama, on behalf relationship between a Specialist Teacher for Early Years
of a team of film-makers, with their short experimental and a parent of a young child with learning difficulties
movie entitled Minos. BA Multimedia, Design and Digital through preschool into early years education.
Animation undergraduates Ian Wharton and Ed Shires
picked the top student animation prize with Solar and The university’s Marketing, Recruitment and
media production students James Turner and Ken Johnson Communication Service won the bronze award in the
were commended in the student drama category for their Best Use of Traditional Media category of the annual Heist
film Billy. Awards. The Heist Awards for Education Marketing have
evolved over the last 8 years to become the premier
Rashid Adamson, a second year Joint Honours Journalism awards programme for marketing in the sector.
and Creative Writing student was awarded the decibel
Penguin Prize 2008 which celebrates diversity in the arts. The university’s Human Resources Service won the
Against a theme of mixed heritage, judges looked for Universities Personnel Association (UPA) Higher HR
true stories that illuminated the complexities, challenges (Human Resources) Award for Organisation Development.
and joys of coming from such a background. Rashid’s The award was for the ‘Shaping our University’ project,
story captured some of the complex issues experienced which incorporated a range of initiatives to support the
whilst growing up with dual heritage in Britain with a university’s launch.
Muslim father from Pakistan and a Catholic mother from
Middlesbrough. University historian Dr Mike Huggins was awarded a
prestigious fellowship by an American research library.
The Newton Rigg campus of the University of Cumbria Dr Huggins, a Reader in Cultural History in the Faculty of
was highly commended in the 2008 Green Gown Awards Education, was chosen for the 2008/09 John H. Daniels
for its ecological diversity. Eighty-two species of bird either Visiting Fellowship at the National Sporting Library,
breed on or visit the estate near Penrith due to a sensitive Middleburg, Virginia, USA. He is based at the university’s
system of ‘integrated land management’ which includes Ambleside campus and lives near Windermere in the
bio-energy crops. Lake District. He has addressed many conferences in
Britain, Europe and the USA and is a leading expert on
Former student Ian Fenton was nominated for a prestigious the cultural history of British horse racing.
BAFTA award in recognition of his script writing work on
children’s TV show Byker Grove. Ian graduated with a
first class honours degree in media studies in 995 before
working as a researcher in regional television for two years
and writing his own short drama films. In 200 he started
writing for the soap Emmerdale. His nomination was in the
Best Children’s Drama category and centred on an episode
of Byker Grove which aired in autumn 2006.
” I think the teachers are great.
They’re refreshing, innovative
and motivating.“
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