2025 Postgrad Awards Winners

Unsure what to include in your Keystone Awards nomination? Get inspired by our 2025 Postgrad Awards winners! Learn more about the winners and their stories below.

Tomas has been 'Highly Commended' for the strong and consistent praise he received from his students. Judges highlighted the large number of positive testimonials as evidence of his impact and effectiveness as a PhD supervisor.

Previous Winners


🏆 2024 Winners & Highly Commended

Masters Student of the Year Winner: Abdallah Hisham - Aston University

Masters Teacher of the Year Winner: Masters Teacher of the Year Winner - Alis Iacob

PhD Student of the Year Winner: Jennifer Davies-Oliveira - The University of Manchester

PhD Student of the Year Highly Commended: Mahmoud Alsaeed - University of Sheffield

PhD Supervisor of the Year Winner: PhD Supervisor of the Year Winner - Emma Crosbie

Best Postgraduate Marketing & Recruitment campaign Winner: PGR Student Partners Scheme - Embedding EDI in PGR Research Culture - University of Southampton

Best Postgraduate Marketing & Recruitment campaign Highly Commended: Postgraduate Advisory Service - Trinity College Dublin

🏆 2023 Winners & Highly Commended

Masters Student of the Year Winner: Mat "Jack" Powell - University of Huddersfield

Masters Student of the Year Highly Commended: Adam Baker - Cardiff University

Masters Teacher of the Year Winner: Dr Tim Herrick - University of Sheffield

PhD Student of the Year Winner: Nadine Charanek - Carleton University, Canada

PhD Supervisor of the Year Winner: Tyler Denmead - University of Cambridge

Outstanding Contribution to Postgraduate Support & Wellbeing: Your Community, Your Imperial - Imperial College London

🏆 2022 Winners & Highly Commended

Masters Student of the Year Winner: Nikita Asnani - University of Warwick

Masters Teacher of the Year Winner: Prasanna Ramakrisnan - Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)

PhD Student of the Year Winner: Josephine Agyeman-Duah - University of Oxford

PhD Supervisor of the Year Winner: Clive Palmer - University of Central Lancashire

Outstanding Contribution to PG Student Diversity: Equal Representation in Academia - St George's, University of London

Outstanding Contribution to PG Student Wellbeing: Postgraduate Wellbeing Suite - University of York

🏆 2021 Winners & Highly Commended

Masters Student of the Year Winner: Emma Wall - The University of Sheffield

Masters Teacher of the Year Winner: Will Mason - The University of Sheffield

PhD Student of the Year Winner: Toluwalase Awoyemi - University of Oxford

PhD Supervisor of the Year Winner: Malcolm White - University of St Andrews

Best PG Wellbeing Initiative Winner: Researcher Toolkit - University of Plymouth

🏆 2020 Winners & Highly Commended

Masters Student of the Year Winner: David Whitworth - Royal Holloway, University of London

Masters Teacher of the Year Winner: Devin Terhune - Goldsmiths, University of London

PhD Student of the Year Winner: Rose Waugh - University of St Andrews

PhD Supervisor of the Year Winner: Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy - University of Reading

🏆 2019 Winners & Highly Commended

Masters Student of the Year Winner: Thomas Ovenden - University of Stirling

Masters Teacher of the Year Winner: Kevin Coward - University of Oxford

PhD Student of the Year Winner: Bethan Rogoyski - University of Leicester

PhD Supervisor of the Year Winner: David Fletcher - Loughborough University