DICE awards five annual prizes to its students and staff and these are announced at the annual DICE lecture.

Undergraduate prizes

Worcester Prize for DICE

This prize will be awarded annually to the best undergraduate student taught by DICE on any of its courses. This prize will be judged on the basis of the following criteria: all module marks, taking into account difficulties and challenges faced by the student in fieldwork, laboratory techniques or other aspects of the course; the contribution of the candidate as an undergraduate student to personal development and progress; and, contribution of the student to the general well-being of the class and of DICE. The prize has been made by the former Chancellor of the University of Kent, Sir Robert Worcester.

2007/08	Michaela Kossuth	2008/09	Kathrin Mach
2009/10	Ben Payne	2010/11	Amy Liebthal
2011/12	Tamzin Rasho	2012/13	Phoebe Maund
2013/14		2014/15	Hannah Conduit
2015/16	Cassy Flint	2016/17	Gwynne Braidwood
2017/18	Treya Picking & Holly Reid	2018/19	Amie Humphries

 

Gerald Durrell Prize

A prize awarded for the best student gaining a First on the BSc in Wildlife Conservation or BA in Environmental Social Sciences (and cognate programmes) with the School of Anthropology and Conservation.

 

Postgraduate prizes

Maurice Swingland Prize

This prize is awarded to the best postgraduate student taught by DICE in its postgraduate programmes involving coursework and dissertation. The prize is judged on coursework and dissertation marks, the extent to which the student used their time at DICE for personal development and the contribution of the student to the wellbeing of DICE. The Maurice Swingland Prize is named after the late father of Ian Swingland, DICE’s Founder.

1995/96	Frances Pirie	1996/97	Inogwabini Bila-Isia
1997/98	Peter Halliday	1998/99	Mike Hearn
1999/00	Million Belay & Kevin Smith	2000/01	Sergio Herrera Encina
2001/02	Bahar Dutt	2002/03	Mwape Sichilongo
2003/04	Leonardo Fleck	2004/05	Bruno Nhancale
2005/06	Sanjay Gubbi	2006/07	Hugo van der Westhuizen
2007/08	Benjamin Lee	2008/09	Alice Ward-Francis
2009/10	Nicolas Galvez	2010/11	Rodgers Lubilo & Destario Metusala
2011/12	Leonie Lawrence	2012/13	Rachel Shairp & Trishant Simlai
2013/14		2014/15	Debbie Fogell
2015/16	Sam Leslie	2016/17	Amy Collis
2017/18	Will Hayes	2018/19	Kerstin Opfer

 

Mike Walkey Prize

This prize is awarded to the best postgraduate student completing an MSc, MPhil or PhD by research in DICE. The prize is judged on thesis quality, time to submission, examiners’ reports, the extent to which the student used their time at DICE for personal development and the contribution of the student to the well-being of DICE. The prize was originally named after Fiona Alexander, the daughter of Sandy, our former University Treasurer, and Meg Alexander. It was renamed the Durrell Trust for Conservation Biology Prize in 2014 and then in 2019 it was renamed again to the Mike Walkey Prize, in honour of DICE’s first Director.

1995/96*	Dr Atanga Ekobo	1997/98*	Dr Matthew Walpole
1998/99*	Dr Lim Chan Koon	1999/00*	Anne Riddell
2000/01*	Dr Zelealem Ashenafi	2001/02*	Dr Robin Moore
2002/03*	Dr Noah Sitati	2003/04*	Dr Matthew Linkie
2004/05*	Dr Hector Magome	2005/06*	Dr Mounir Abi-Said
2006/07*	Drs Laury Cullen Jr & David Sewell	2007/08*	Dr Brett Lewis
2009/10*	Dr Patricia Medici	2010/11*	Dr Gail Campbell-Smith
2011/12*	Dr Enrico Di Minin	2012/13*	Dr Mark Darmaraj
2013/14§		2014/15§	Drs Jake Bicknell, Abishek Harihar & Diogo Verissimo
2015/16§	Dr Hazel Jackson	2016/17§	Drs Dan Challender & Amy Hinsley
2017/18§	Dr Mohammad Abdul Aziz	2018/19	Dr Gail Austen

* Fiona Alexander Prize, § Durrell Trust for Conservation Biology Prize

 

Staff prize

Ellya Mustafa Staff Award

The Ellya Mustafa Prize was created by DICE students to recognize the efforts of staff members towards the DICE mission and the student experience at DICE. The prize is the most recent DICE award, having been awarded for the first time in 2011, and is attributed through a direct vote from all DICE students. The award is named after Ellya Hafidzah Haji Mustafa, a conservationist from Brunei, who completed her MSc in Conservation Biology at DICE in 2006/2007. Ellya passed away in January 2011 due to sudden illness and this prize is in honour of her and organized by her fellow DICE colleagues.