Celebrating Student Success

The FASS Student Awards seek to maximise student success, and recognise students from a Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic background who have made exceptional progress during their study, in order to achieve their study goals. Led by the FASS Student EDI Team, we are fortunate to have the support of Joan Armatrading and Sir Lenny Henry for two new student awards, which were presented in November 2021.

The inaugural The Joan Armatrading Award for Outstanding Performance and The Sir Lenny Henry Award for Outstanding Achievement give recognition to those students from under-represented groups, who have either gained outstandingly high marks in their modules, or who have made exceptional steps towards achieving their study goals. Each award recipient is enrolled on a Roll of Honour, and receives an engraved trophy, certificate, and monetary prize.

Congratulations to Humaira, recipient of the The Joan Armatrading Award for Outstanding Performance in a 2020J FASS Module. Joan Armatrading said "I and the Faculty are immensely proud" of Humaira's consistency and achievement, adding "there's always lots of things to distract you from studying, so well done for not getting sidetracked."