Psychology essay prize winners
Posted on Thursday 20 October 2011
Students impress Cambridge
Last summer seven AS Psychology students: Lucy Bassil, Charlotte Pich, Sophie Coombs, Michael Donald, Lucy Greenwood, Emma Crompton and Jessica Colenutt entered an essay competition run by the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
Three of the Cambridge entrants, Charlotte, Lucy and Sophie saw their entries progress into the competition proper. Lucy’s essay title was “How do life experiences affect personality?” Her essay was given a mark of 73 and short-listed for a prize, being one of the ten highest-marked out of the 135 entries Cambridge received. Charlotte’s title was “How and why might children and adolescents be influenced by siblings?” Her entry was awarded a mark of 56 which equates to a 2.2 at undergraduate level. Sophie Coombs also chose “How do Life Experiences Effect Personality?” as her title and she received a very respectable score of 53. Pleasingly, all three students were encouraged to apply to Cambridge on the basis of their entries.
Two other students, Chloe Bard and Poppy Thorpe-Jones entered the ‘Michael Eysenck Psychology Essay Prize’ run by the Royal Holloway University. Chloe Bard’s chosen title was “How do mental disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder affect patients’ lives and to what extent can it ever really be ‘cured’?” while Poppy Thorpe Jones' title was “Do care homes in Britain offer the specialised care that residents require? To their credit both of these students came in the top ten entrants for this completion and were commended for their work.
The Psychology team were delighted with the quality of all of the entries and, in recognition of the student’s efforts and the value placed on their work, each entrant was presented with a Freudian Slips coffee mug by Nigel Wooldridge, Senior Curriculum manager for Psychology.
