Sue Rothwell presents Hannah Boon with Rothwell Prize

Keith Skeoch, Business School Advisory Board Chair

Professor Steven McGuire

Business School prize winners and guests

The Business School’s annual prize winners’ celebratory dinner for students took place last month at the University of Sussex.

This event acknowledges the outstanding academic achievements of the School’s graduating students. Previously postponed due to the pandemic, this year cohorts from 2020, 2021 and 2022 celebrated together.

Over 100 guests attended the event in July, hosted by Professor Steven McGuire, Dean of the Business School. The winners were joined by friends and family, course directors, and members of the School’s management team.  

Sue Rothwell, together with Business School Advisory Board chair Keith Skeoch presented the ‘Roy Rothwell Prize for Excellent Dissertation in SPRU’ to Hannah Boon, MSc Strategic Innovation Management 2021, for her dissertation ‘Exploring How Traditional Firms Within the UK Construction Industry Are Undertaking Business Model Innovation’.

The Roy Rothwell Prize is awarded in honour of Professor Roy Rothwell and his exceptional contribution to teaching in the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) between 1977 and 1994. He was a pioneering researcher in the field of innovation management.

A total of 98 prizes have been awarded since 2020 to Business School graduating students in categories including Best Student and Best Research Project. Other sponsored awards include the Geta Beker Busjeet Memorial Prize, the Geoff Oldham Prize for Excellent Dissertation in SPRU, the Gladstone Memorial Prize for Best Applied Economics Dissertation, and the ICAEW Prize for Best Student in Financial Accounting.

Thirty-five prize winners attended the event. They were:

Undergraduate Prize Winners 2022

Management 

• Best Student​ in Management BSc Business and Management Studies: Robert Bhar
• Best Student (Joint Honours)​ in BSc Economics and International Development: Fiona Hill
• Best Research Project in Management BSc Business and Management: William Rees

Strategy and Marketing

• Best Student and Best Research Project​ in BSc International Business: Ben Crangle
• Best Student​ in BSc Marketing and Management: Michelle Tran

Accounting and Finance 

• Winner of the ICAEW Prize for Best Student in Financial Accounting and Analysis​ in BSc Accounting and Finance: Joshua Lewis
• Best Student​ in BSc Finance and Business: Maya Mehrez
• Best Research Project in Accounting and Finance​ in BSc Finance and Technology: Daniel Peacock
• Best Student ​in BSc Finance: Marcus Socrates Christoforou
• Best Student ​in BSc Accounting and Finance: Argyro Zonia

Undergraduate Prize Winners 2021

Accounting and Finance 

• Best Research Project in BSc Finance and Business: Kimiya Akhyani
• Best Student in BSc Accounting and Finance: Kayleigh Andrews
• Best Student in BSc Finance and Business: Paola Marino
• Winner of the ICAEW Prize for Best Student in Financial Accounting and Analysis​ – BSc Accounting and Finance: Danielle Tennent
• Best Student in BSc Economics: Joshua Turner Smith

Management 

• Best Student in BSc Business and Management Studies: Georgia Hudson
• Best Research Project in BSc Business and Management Studies: Beatrice Rosolin

Postgraduate Prize Winners 2021

Management

• Best Student in ​MSc Management: Alexander Aschke
• Best Student in​ MSc Human Resource Management: Verity Carter-Johnson
• Best Student in​ MSc Management: Faith Hellett
• Best Student and Best Research Project​ in MSc Global Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Alexander Niess
• Best Student ​in MSc Occupational and Organisational Psychology​ and Highest Mark in Research Project: Katharina Schließer

Accounting and Finance

• Best Student ​in MSc Banking and Finance: Thi Bich Phuong Vuong

Economics

• Best Student​ in MSc International Finance and Economics: Owen Ellicott

Best Student​ in MSc International Business Economics: Hans Peter Weiz

Strategy and Marketing

• Best Student ​in MSc Marketing and Consumer Psychology: Justine Goudot
• Highest Mark in Research Project​ in MSc Marketing and Consumer Psychology: Christine Jeavons
• Best Student ​in MSc International Management: Josh McEnaney

The Sussex MBA

• Best Student​ in Masters of Business Administration: Maximillian Smith

Undergraduate Prize Winners 2020

Economics 

• Winner of the Geta Beker Busjeet Memorial Prize​ in BA Economics and International Development: Liam Baker
• Winner of the Gladstone Memorial Prize for Best Applied Economics Dissertation ​BSc Economics: Kitty Kavanagh

Management 

• Best student​ in BSc Business and Management: Jenny Ingram
• Best Student​ in BSc Marketing and Management: Matthew Key
• Best Student​ in BSc International Business: Molly Llewellyn

Postgraduate Prize Winners 2020

Accounting and Finance 

• Best Student ​in MSc Banking and Finance: Gianluca Labagnarara

Congratulations to all prize winners.