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CUQM's 2020 Quantitative Dissertation Prize Winner

CUQM awards an annual prize for the best undergraduate dissertation that uses quantitative methods. Each year, the nine affiliated Exam Boards are asked to put forward up to one dissertation for the panel of judges to consider.

This year, the seven candidates nominated from the affiliated departments were:

  • Madeleine Green and Lucy Champion (Faculty of Education)
  • Isabelle Monnickengam (Department of Land Economy)                     
  • Imogen Davies (Department of Linguistics)  
  • Morgause Lomas (Department of Archaeology)         
  • James Ackland (Department of Politics) 
  • William Holy-Hasted (Department of Sociology)

The CUQM judging panel have reviewed each of the seven nominated dissertations, and have decided to award Imogen Davies with CUQM's 2020 Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, ‘The use of ‘as’ as a post-adjectival intensifier in British English’.

CUQM would like to congratulate Imogen on this prestigious award, and for her outstanding dissertation. Sage has kindly awarded Imogen the prize with £100 worth of books.

Congratulations to the nominated students for their outstanding work. 

 

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CUQM POL6 2019 Prize Winner 

Congratulations to Jessica Burley who has won the CUQM/SAGE prize for highest mark in the 2019 POL6 (Statistics) exam paper.

Jessica has won £100 worth of books from SAGE publishers.

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Jessica reflects on the benefits of conducting the POL6 individual project. 

 

CUQM SOC5 2019 Prize Winner 

Congratulations to Holly Scott (Sociology, Jesus College) who has won the CUQM/SAGE prize for highest mark in the 2019 SOC5 (Statistics and Methods) exam paper.

Holly has won £100 worth of books from SAGE publishers.

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Holly offers her reflections on taking SOC5. 

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CUQM POL6 Joint Prize Winner 

Congratulations to Jamie Popplewell (Queens College) who has won the CUQM/SAGE prize for joint highest mark in the 2018 POL6 (Statistics and Methods in Politics and International Relations) exam paper. Jamie has won £50 worth of books from SAGE publishers.

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Jamie offers his reflections of POL6.

 

CUQM POL6 Joint Prize Winner 

Congratulations to Dom Waters (Robinson College) who has won the CUQM/SAGE prize for joint highest mark in the 2018 POL6 (Statistics and Methods in Politics and International Relations) exam paper. Dom has won £50 worth of books from SAGE publishers.

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Dom offers his reflections of POL6 and outlines the benefits he believes undertaking the paper will have on his career path.

 

CUQM SOC5 Prize Winner

Congratulations to Nicole Lau (Education, Homerton College) who has won the CUQM/SAGE prize for highest mark in the 2018 SOC5 (Statistics and Methods) exam paper. Nicole has won £100 worth of books from SAGE publishers.

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Nicole offers her reflections of SOC5 and outlines the benefits of undertaking the paper.

 

FEBRUARY 2018

CUQM Quantitative Dissertation Prize Winner 2017

CUQM awards an annual prize for the best undergraduate dissertation that uses quantitative methods in the social science and humanities Triposes covered by CUQM. Each year, the nine affiliated Exam Boards are asked to put forward up to one dissertation for the final panel of judges to consider.

This year, the six candidates nominated from the affiliated departments were:

  • George Brill (Biological Anthropology)
  • Yiran Chao (Faculty of Education)
  • James Durea (Department of Land Economy)                     
  • Emma Flint (Department of Linguistics)  
  • George Heath-Whyte (Department of Archaeology)         
  • Auriane Terki (Faculty of History)

The CUQM judging panel have reviewed each of the six nominated dissertations, and have decided to award George Heath-Whyte with the CUQM Dissertation Prize 2017for his dissertation, ‘Judeans in Babylonia in the Long Sixth Century BC: Studies in their Acculturation’.

CUQM would like to congratulate George on this prestigious award, and for his outstanding dissertation. Sage has kindly awarded George the prize with £100 worth of books.

The judging panel also wished to note that the calibre of the dissertations nominated this year was exceptionally high and that each nominated student have excelled.

Congratulations to all of the students involved.

 

MARCH 2016

The second CUQM Annual Lecture took place on Wednesday 9th March. The lecture was given by Dr Tim Leunig, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Education and was titled:

If you don't have data you're just another person with an opinion

Some photos of the event can be seen here

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OCTOBER 2015

SAGE logo  Congratulations to Alexander Robertson (Linguistics) who has won the CUQM/SAGE prize for best undergraduate dissertation to have used quantitative methods. Alexander's dissertation was titled:

Automatic Identification of Spelling Variation in Historical Texts

and the judges were unanimous in their decision to award the prize to Alexander. The prize consists of £50 worth of books from SAGE publishers and a £50 bookshop voucher.

 


OCTOBER 2015

SAGE logo  Congratulations to Nadia O'Shaughnessy (Politics, Magdalene College) who has won the CUQM/SAGE prize for highest mark in the 2015 SOC5 (Statistics and Methods) exam paper. Nadia has won £50 worth of books from SAGE publishers and a £50 bookshop voucher.

 


JUNE 2015

The University of Cambridge's research magazine, Research Horizons, has just published a new issue with a spotlight on Big Data. It contains an article on CUQM in which Dr Burchell explains how CUQM is aiming to equip Social Science undergraduates with the skills that are becoming increasingly necessary with the emergence of big data.

Issue 27 of Research Horizons can be accessed here: download

 


APRIL 2015

Congratulations to Sociology student Jasmine John, who has been offered a summer work placement at Shift Learning, starting July 2015.

Shift Learning provide market research for the education sector and the placement will give Jasmine some invaluable work experience and a chance to use her quantitative research skills. Well done Jasmine!

 


17 MARCH 2015

Brendan Burchell at Everton

 

Dr Brendan Burchell gave a lecture entitled “Social Science by Numbers” to a group of Year 12 students at Goodison Park (the home stadium of Everton Football Club) on March 17, 2015.

The theme of the lecture was why it was vital that some social science graduates have advanced mathematical or statistical skills in today’s world where an understanding of data is fundamental to making good decisions in both Government and Industry.

The pupils were selected by their teachers as those most academically gifted amongst their cohort and came from a range of schools across the North West of England. All of them were taking Maths A level.  

The lecture was part of a wider event organised jointly by Magdalene College, Cambridge and Everton FC to promote Higher Education.

CUQM is hoping to hold a number of similar events for talented pupils in years 11-13 in the future.  If you are a school and interested in attending such an event, please contact Casey Mein on cm575@cam.ac.uk

 


17th FEBRUARY 2015

The Inaugural Annual CUQM Lecture took place on Tuesday 17th February and was a great success.

The lecture was given by Professor David Spiegelhalter and was titled:

Sex by Numbers: Quantitative Methods in Sex Research

 

Some photos of the event can be seen here:

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