Aberdeen Internship Project Presentation Award
Awarded to the student who gives the best presentation
- Value of Prize
- n/a
- Budget Code
- Careers Administer
- Student Record Code
- 1051
Bobby Aitken Memorial Award
This prize is awarded annually for the best creative prose or poetry and is open to any fulltime undergraduate student of the university.
- Value of Prize
- £50
- Budget Code
- (EN) EP10199-11
- Student Record Code
- 024
Calder Prize
This prize is awarded triennially and is open to all students matriculated in the academic year of the award. Each entry must consist of a poem in English or a recognised dialect of Scots and must not exceed 200 lines in length. It must be typed and bear a motto but nothing else, along with the candidates name and address.
- Value of Prize
- £200
- Budget Code
- (EN) EP10017-11
- Student Record Code
- 119
Enterprise-Rent-A-Car Careers Education Prize
Awarded for best overall academic performance in the careers education course ED2550
- Value of Prize
- £50
- Budget Code
- Careers Administer
- Student Record Code
- 292
Lyon Prize for Most Distinguished Graduate
Awarded in turn in successive years to the most distinguished graduate of the year in Science, Arts & Social Sciences, Divinity, Education, Law, Medicine and Engineering. The prize is awarded to the most distinguished graduate of the year.
- Value of Prize
- Divinity in 2023/24 £100
- Budget Code
- (EN) EP10079-11
- Student Record Code
- 518
The Afetsi Awooner Prize
Open to any Ghanian student ordinarily resident in Ghana undertaking a postgraduate taught degree programme at the University of Aberdeen. It will be awarded to the graduating student achieving the highest grade point average (GPA) amongst the eligible students each academic year. If two or more eligible students tie with a joint highest GPA, the £1,000 prize will be split evenly between them.
The first prize will be awarded in September 2024.
- Value of Prize
- £1000
- Budget Code
- Administered by Development Trust
- Student Record Code
- 1076
Thomas Reid Prize for Book Collecting
The prize is open to all registered students of the University of Aberdeen. It seeks to encourage the collection of the printed word in physical form. Applications are based around a written list or catalogue of items owned and anticipated future purchases (which may be illustrated), and a separate statement of the idea of the collection, its scope, intent, and meaning.
The prize is advertised and awarded during the academic year by Aberdeen Humanities Fund.
- Value of Prize
- £500 to spend on an item/s for their own collection, and £250 to spend on a gift of their choice to
- Budget Code
- Awarded through Development Trust
- Student Record Code
- 801
Thomson Memorial Prize
Founded in 1968 under the will of Mrs D C Gracie, Edinburgh in memory of her father John Thomson, Managing Director, Aberdeen University Press Ltd. The prize is awarded annually to the student who in the opinion of the Principal has by his or her conduct or eminence in sport done most to advance of enhance the reputation of the University.
- Value of Prize
- £300
- Budget Code
- (EN) EP10126-11
- Student Record Code
- 808