Biggest Award Ceremony

In October 2024 AOUG hosted our biggest ever Research Students Award Ceremony. AOUG offered nine different subject area Awards each year to all final year OU phd students who have previously gained any OU degree and who have been nominated by their Supervisors. Covid had had an affect on numbers of students being near completion of their research in 2022 and 2023 and so nominations in those years were few. However in 2024 things were different and as many more students were nominated, the Trustees decided to make an exception and grant more than one Award in some areas. Research was varied and so interesting, some very specialist in one subject area and others cross curicular whilst some demonstrated true innovation so the Trustees were not only able to chose eleven recipients but also to enable for every one of our different categories had a suitable candidate.