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Find out more about the history of prizes for undergraduate winners and a list of recent undergraduate prize winners.
Harold Speight Prize in Economics
Typically awarded to the finalist with the best overall degree result, this £1000 prize is named after Harold Speight (1919 – 1993) a student at the UCL Department of Economics from 1935 – 1938 who later lectured in the University of Leeds and authored several textbooks. His will left funds to promote the study of economics.
2022/23 winner
- Jasmine Khoo
Eleanora Allen Prize
This £200 prize, awarded for performance on the BSc Economics programme, George Cyril Allen (1900 – 1982), CBE FBA, Professor in the UCL Department of Economics from from 1947 – 1967, was an expert in industrial economics and economic history, with a special interest in the economics of Japan. His will left funds to award a prize in honour of his late wife Eleanora Allen.
2022/23 winner
- Xiaotian Tian
GC Allen Sessional Prize
A Heather Bigg / AJ Cahill Prize
A £150 prize awarded annually for performance on the BSc Economics programme, Ada Heather Bigg arrived to study economics at UCL in 1875. She was awarded the Hume scholarship and the Jevons scholarship to pursue research on economic and social conditions in London in 1891. Her will left funds to award a prize in alternate years for performance on the BSc (Econ). A J Cahill was UCL Registrar from 1954 – 1978. After his death, funds raised in his memory were assigned to the award of a similar prize. These prize funds have now been merged.
2022/23 winner
- Feidias Georgiadis
Hume-Lloyd Prizes
Joseph Hume was a founder of UCL and after his death, funds for a scholarship were raised to commemorate his ‘public services and virtues’. The Lloyd scholarship was established in 1907 by Miss Elizabeth Lloyd in memory of her brother Francis Lloyd a former student of UCL. In 1938 these scholarships were merged and the title is now attached to the ten sessional prizes of £30 each the department awards each year recognising outstanding performance in that year’s examinations.
2022/23 winner
Year 3
- Iain Saka Simmons
- Kuangjie Ni
- Kexin Wu
Year 2
- Shaun Wei Yang Ng
- Pavel Sizov
- Fan Wu (Misty)
Year 1
- Sizhe Zhang
- Ivan Geisler
- Zile Huang
John Pencavel Prize
Awarded each year to recognise outstanding performance in examinations by an affiliate student, the prize of $250 is named after John Pencavel, Professor at Stanford, who studied in the UCL Department of Economics from 1962 – 1966.
Faculty Undergraduate Scholarship for Excellence
- 2022/23 nominee (Year 1): Sizhe Zhang
- 2022/23 nominee (Year 2): Shaun Wei Yang Ng
Faculty Medal
- 2022/23 nominee Jasmine Khoo
Previous winners
- 2017/18 winners
Year 3
Harold Speight Prize in Economics Wen Jie Koh
Eleanora Allen Prize Yi Lee
A Heather Bigg / AJ Cahill Prize Xinyi Lu
Hume-Lloyd Prize Hong Tran Tran
Hume-Lloyd Prize Adelson Teh Ming Wei
GC Allen Prize Yi-Hsuan Wan
Year 2
Economics Sessional Prize Otso Hao
Economics Sessional Prize Shin Low
Year 1
Economics Sessional Prize Hanzhe Lu
Economics Sessional Prize Tianrui Mu
John Pencavel Prize Agathe Gregoire
- 2018/19 winners
Year 3
Harold Speight Prize in Economics George Louis Hick
Eleanora Allen Prize Otso Peigong Hao
A Heather Bigg / AJ Cahill Prize Benjamin Thomas Green
GC Allen Sessional Prize Eirini Adam
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Ruben Shunichi Emiel Takahashi Pauwels
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Karin So
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Sean Chua Yan Chun
Year 2
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Zhi Bing Mervyn Cheong
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Xiang Zeng
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Victor Patrick Marcel Engel
Year 1
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Yuting Zhang
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Tiansui Tu
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Sijie Ke
John Pencavel Prize Jing Kun Go
- 2019/20 winners
Year 3
Harold Speight Prize in Economics Samuel Asher
Eleanora Allen Prize Victor Patrick Marcel Engel
A Heather Bigg / AJ Cahill Prize Xiang Zeng
GC Allen Sessional Prize Raphael Daniel Bokobza
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Joseph Chan Boren
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Philipp-Leo Mengel
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Louis John Shaw
Year 2
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Guo Xuan Wong
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Tiansui Tu
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Yuting Zhang
Year 1
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Sean Chan
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Ivar Lassesen
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Shama Riddhi
- 2020/21 winners
Harold Speight Prize in Economics Guo Xuan Wong
Eleanora Allen Prize Yuting Zhang
A Heather Bigg/AJ Cahilll Prize Sean Tu
Year 3
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Maria Lovin
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Lei Chu
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Jin Luo
Year 2
Faculty Undergraduate Scholarship for Excellence Tanyi Liu
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Tanyi Liu
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize George Hale
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Alessandro Guarnieri
Year 1
Faculty Undergraduaate Scholarship for Excellence Jasmine Khoo
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Feidias Georgiadis
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Michael Geaney
Hume-Lloyd Sessional Prize Jasmine Khoo