Congratulations to all those who won a prize in the Third Annual Student Essay Competition! The winning essays in each category will be published in volume 5 of the journal. Winners and runners up are listed below and details of the competition can be found further down the page for reference.

We are pleased to announce the following results of the 3rd ECO Student Essay Competition:

Year 1

  • First Place – Cal Corkery (£1000 prize)
  • Second Place – Lewis Robinson (£600 prize)
  • Third Place – Josh McIntyre (£500 prize)
  • Runner Up – Daniel Sadler (£400 prize) 

Year 2

  • First Place (joint essay) – Tristan Jose and Ollie Lee (£500 prize each)
  • Second Place – Thomas Jordan (£600 prize)
  • Third Place – Joe Hanson (£500 prize)
  • Runner Up 1 – Daniel Osborn (£400 prize)
  • Runner Up 2 – Claire Donner (£300 prize)
  • Runner Up 3 – Charlie Harper (£200 prize)
  • Runner Up 4 – Abdul Rahman Salaudeen (£200 prize)

Year 3

  • First Place – Alex Haines (£1000 prize)
  • Second Place – Patrick Harding (£600 prize)
  • Third Place – Benton Knight (£500 prize)
  • Runner Up 1 – Kyle Burrows (£400 prize)
  • Runner Up 2 – Nathan Sivewright (£300 prize)
  • Runner Up 3 – Kieran Keohane (£200 prize)
  • Runner Up 4 – Thomas Morgan (£200 prize)
  • Runner Up 5 – Janis Loschmann (£200 prize)

Postgraduate

  • First Place (joint essay) – Panayiotis Agisilaou and Frederick Wandschneider (£500 prize each)
  • Second Place – Bazil Sansom (£600 prize)
  • Third Place (joint essay) – Jack Whybrow and Jiwei Zheng (£250 prize each)
  • Runner Up 1 – Mike Brock (£400 prize)
  • Runner Up 2 – Ben Angus (£300 prize)

Congratulations to everyone! The winning essays in each category appear in Volume 5 of the Norwich Economic Papers.

The deadline for entries to the Third Annual Student Essay Competition has now passed. Essays have now been assessed and the winning essays form part of Volume 5 of the Norwich Economic Papers.

For reference, see below for information on the competition.

Themes

You can choose one title from the following five broad areas:

  1. Is nationalisation of banks ever justified?
  2. What are the impacts of an international migration quota?
  3. Are we capable of being altruistic?
  4. How can we stimulate economic growth in the UK economy?
  5. Discuss the benefits and detriments of micro finance in emerging markets.

The essay is expected to be between 1,500 and 3,000 words.

Prizes

All submitted essays will be assessed as per the year of the study of the student submitting the essay. The prize for each best essay is £1,000:

  1. Best Essay by a first year undergraduate student: £1,000
  2. Best Essay by a second year undergraduate student: £1,000
  3. Best Essay by a third year undergraduate student: £1,000
  4. Best Essay by a postgraduate student: £1,000.

Essay Submission

Submission Deadline: 4.00pm on Friday 2nd March 2012. 
Place of Submission: Please submit your essay to Shiona Brereton in the Local Support Office in Arts 2 room 3.63 by e-mail (shiona.brereton@uea.ac.uk) or on a memory stick. You should also submit a signed cover sheet with your essay which is available from Shiona. 

Winning essays will be published online in the fifth volume of the student essay e-journal, Norwich Economic Papers. 

Other Rules

  1. Only students in a degree offered by the School of Economics at the University of East Anglia ('the School' in what follows) are eligible to apply.
  2. Joint submissions are possible, but please note that, if students belong to different academic years, the essay will automatically be considered only for the category of the most academically senior student in terms of academic progression in their UEA Economics studies.[1] In case of a prize being awarded to a jointly produced essay, the prize will be split equally among the winners (in case of fractional amounts, prizes will be rounded up to the nearest penny).
  3. Students need to hold copyrights of the essays when submitting them to the School for the competition.
  4. On submission of the essay, students agree to surrender to the School the copyrights of the essay, inclusive of the rights to submit the essay to Turnitin inspection and to publish the essay online.
  5. The School may publish online in Norwich Economic Papers more essays than those to whom a prize is offered.
  6. Each student can submit only one essay.
  7. Essays should be in English and should be submitted in typed form.
  8. Electronic copies can be submitted by email or on a memory stick that will be returned upon downloading the file. It is the applicant's responsibility to provide the School with a valid postal address and email address.
  9. Each essay submission should accompany with a signed cover sheet, available from Jacqui Gopal (Arts 3.54).
  10. The School reserves the right not to award prizes if essays of insufficient quality, and/or inappropriate for online publication on the University website, are submitted.

Further Information

If you have any enquiries, please contact Ms Gina Neff (g.neff@uea.ac.uk) or Stephan Schmitt (s.schmitt@uea.ac.uk).