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Star Awards 2018 – Who won what?

The annual GCU Student’s Association Star Awards took place on Thursday, celebrating the hard work and dedication of groups and individuals across the campus.

Awards were given out to commend societies, representatives, student media groups (that’s us!) and the work of particular students who’ve made a difference in and beyond the university.

While it may have appeared that The EDIT team went along solely to enjoy the prosecco and three course meal provided, don’t let the photos fool you – we were actually there on extremely professional press related business. Here’s our comprehensive list of the winners at the ceremony, along with some photographs of ourselves and fellow student media team Radio Caley making the most of the night.

Image credit: Tamsin Ross

Best Article – The EDIT

Caleb Demoz
Monica Allen
Kaspars Zalāns 

Best Overall Contribution – The EDIT

Monica Allen

Best Behind The Mic – Radio Caley

Emma Duffy
Tom Jarvis
Anthony Reynolds
Ema Sabljak
Katharina Bille

Best Overall Contribution – Radio Caley

Tom Jarvis

Representative of the Year 

Fraser Knight
Kirsty Weir
Callum Smith – highly commended
Susan Doherty

Callum Smith – Highly commended
Image credit: Tamsin Ross

Best New Society

Music Society
Overwatch Society
African Caribbean Society

Image Credit: Tamsin Ross

Best Society Event

CSI Murder Mystery Night
Drama Society’s Winter Showcase
Optics Cup
PantomEYEme – Optics Society
Staff v Students 5-a-side Charity Match – Podiatry Society
CUMSA Annual Dinner

Image Credit: Tamsin Ross

Society of the Year

CUMSA
Drama and Theatre Production Society
Engineering Society
Psychology Society
Optic Society – highly commended
Podiatry Society

Highly commended – Optics Society. Image Credit: Tamsin Ross
Best Society – Podiatry. Image Credit: Tamsin Ross.

Social Innovation Award

Anna De Vries
Callum Smith
Waqas Javed
Laura Jane Howard – highly commended
Thomas Bartlome

Highly commended – Laura Jane Howard

Allister Boyd Award

Susan Doherty
Dariusz Sipowski
Anna De Vries

Lindsay Leadership Award

Emma Wallace
Jaimie Soyka
Andrew Gray

Student of the Year

Dean Mcllear
Robbie Stewart
Maja Jørgensen
Anna De Vries
Abdullah Alotaiq

Here are some photos of members of The EDIT’s committee at the event.

Left, Fraser Knight – Head of Social Media. Right, Laura Webster – Editor
Left – Fraser Knight, Head of Social Media. Centre – Monica Allen, Fashion and Deputy Editor. Right – Laura Webster, Editor.
5/11 of the committee. Left – Richard Mason, Head of Website Design and Photography. Centre left – Fraser Knight, Head of Social Media. Centre – Laura Webster, Editor. Centre right, Declan McGallagly, Head of Events. Right – Monica Allen, Fashion and Deputy Editor.

Photos by Callum Smith unless otherwise stated.

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