ASET Competitions

2021  Student Competition
Throughout the 2020-2021 academic year the COVID-19 pandemic continued to impact on students and their options for undertaking a placement. The Trustees therefore decided to once again broaden the scope of the competition to allow students to participate whether their Placement/Internship/ Work experience was undertaken in person or virtually . The broader scope of the competition was intended to enable as many students as possible to qualify for a chance to win.
This year’s competition attracted high quality entries from students across a broad range of academic areas of study, making the task of judging, which is never an easy one, even harder than usual. Our panel of judges, after lengthy consultation, finally agreed on the winner and Highly Commended entries at the end of March and the details of the winning entries can be seen below.

2021 Competition Winners

The Overall Winner award and £400 prize money went to:

Briony Carter, Bath Spa University (Biology Conservation 2018-2022) who completed her placement with Ferne Animal Sanctuary

Two Highly Commended awards of £100 went to entries from:

Divya Samant, BA (Hons) Fashion PR & Communications, University of the Arts, London – London College of Fashion  on placement at Lubna Palestine

Olivia Worringham, BSc Psychology with a Year in Industry, The University of Warwick on placement at Cygnet Healthcare

Congratulations to all, and a very big thank you to all who supported students’ entries this year.

Previous Years’ Winners
2020  Overall Winner – Katarzyna Komarowska, Anglia Ruskin University
(Highly Commended – Patrick Brennan, Lancaster University )
(Highly Commended – David Sharp, University of Kent)
2019 UK & Ireland -Oliver Symes, Cardiff University
(Highly Commended – Emma Scriven, Anglia Ruskin University )
Overseas – Tiffany Cavinato-Ward, Queen Mary, University of London
(Highly Commended -Hannah Phillips, University of Manchester)
2018 UK & Ireland -Holly Kembrey, Nottingham Trent University
(Highly Commended – Sophie Compton, University of Kent)
Overseas – Karen O’Connell, University College Dublin
(Highly Commended -Holly Hinds, University of Hertfordshire)
2017 UK & Ireland – Andreas Kangari, University of Nottingham
(Highly Commended – Grace Kilpatrick, University of Exeter)
Overseas – Clare Farrell, University College Dublin
(Highly Commended -Harriet Meakin, Nottingham TrentUniversity)
2016 UK & Ireland – Harvey Steele, Loughborough University
(Highly Commended – Sophie Hazelden, Nottingham Trent University)
Overseas – Nikita Crane, Sheffield Hallam University
(Highly Commended -Victoria Powell, Glasgow University)
2015  UK & Ireland – Charlotte Cheesely, Bournemouth University
Overseas – Savannah Mukeshi, Sheffield Hallam University
2014  Kishan Somani, De Montfort University
(Highly Commended – Andrew Head, UCLan and Callum Blumire, University of Bournemouth)
2013  Stephanie Arnold, Royal Veterinary College
(Highly Commended – Julie Forbes, Queen’s University Belfast and Richard Lira, University of Salford)
2012  Chetan Kotur, Loughborough University
(Highly Commended – Shea O ‘Sullivan and Blake Keinanen, NTU, David Jones, Derby University and Danial Chowdhury, Loughborough University)
2011   Paul Brack, Loughborough University
2010  Laura Boggeln, University of Sheffield
(Runner Up – Rebecca Murphy, NTU)
2009  Lucy Armstrong, University of Bath
(Runner Up – Christopher Pagett, LJMU)
2008  Tim Chapman, University of Kent
(Runner Up – Alyxandra Milne, LJMU and Stephanie Rostron Leeds Metropolitan)
2007  Clare Dinham, University of Surrey
(Runner Up – Joshila Oree, Brunel)
2006  Grant Wilson, Robert Gordon University
(Runner Up – Ian Graney, Sheffield Hallam)
2005  Jonathan Walton, University of Kent
2004  Stacey Shepherd, University of Surrey
2003  Georgios Christos Fragiadakis, University of Kent
2002  Timothy White, Sheffield Hallam University