Students celebrated their contributions to campus life, media and sport at the Students' Union's annual awards ceremony in Brighton this month. 

More than 40 awards were handed out at the event, which was held at Brighton Racecourse on 6 May and hosted by students Kit Bradshaw and Carl Salton-Cox. The pair are presenters on University Radio Falmer (URF), the University's student radio station. 

Among the winners were Olivia Wilson, Arts Editor-in-Chief for the badger (the University's student newspaper), who was named 'best student media editor'. 

Other notable successes included an 'outstanding achievement award' for Union Computers, which is a computer repair service run by student volunteers. 

UniTV, the campus TV station, added to an already successful year by winning the 'innovation in student media' award. In April, the station won three  trophies at the National Student Television Association (NaSTA) awards. 

The 'best new society' title went to SCOOP, a food co-operative who buy dried foods in bulk and sell them onto students at near-wholesale prices. 

In sport, Richard Lynch (football) and Grainne Le Fevre (volleyball) won, respectively, 'sportsman' and 'sportswoman of the year'. 

There was also further recognition for Sussex's ultimate frisbee team Mohawks, who are UK champions - they won 'British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) team of the year'. 

Cameron Tait, President of the Students' Union, said: "We're proud that we could put on an event to celebrate students' achievements this year." 

Here is the full list of winners: 

Media 

• Best story: Kieran Burn and Joe Jamieson
• Innovation in student media: UniTV
• Best student media editor: Olivia Wilson 

Volunteering 

• Volunteering England gold awards: Lulu Awori, Isobel Barrett
• Community volunteering certificate of excellence: Daisy Ball, Becky Hutchins, Fenella Prior, Abigail Stebbing, Louisa Talhi
• Link-up award: Ben Carter, Steven Clark, Richard Lynch
• Outstanding achievement: Union Computers
• Union volunteers of the year: Lucy Atkinson, James Ferguson, Carly Pepper, Vincenzo Volpe 

Campaigns & representation 

• Award for social change: Student Parents' Association
• Best campaign: Students Against Sexual Harassment
• Environmental innovation: Green Week 2011
• Outstanding contribution to student representation: Martha Baker, Richard Crawley, Christopher Jones, Ellie Tubman

Societies 

• Society event of the year: Trade Justice/Swing Society Tea Dance
• Best new society: SCOOP
• Most improved society: Arts society
• Outstanding achievement: Alex Anpilogov, Duncan Drury, Claire Harrison Nadia Weigh
  Society personality of the year: Bobby Treweek 

Sports

• Sport awards: Ben Carter, Craig Lang, Charles Lecossois, Konrad Molitar, Bex Yates
• BUCS team of the year: Ultimate frisbee
• Most improved club: Women's cricket
• Club of the year: Fencing
• Full Blue award: Rose Thomas, Ashley Yeo, Lena Erdil, Nick White and Ali Monteath
• Sportsman of the year: Richard Lynch
• Sportswoman of the year: Grainne Le Fevre 

You can watch coverage of the evening at UniTV's website.