This year’s LSE100 Awards Reception took place on Wednesday 7 October. The LSE100 team were thrilled to be joined by students and staff from across the School to celebrate the talent, commitment and achievements of the award winners from the 2025/26 first-year undergraduate cohort.
Over drinks and canapés on the 8th Floor of the Cheng Kin Ku Building, we celebrated as students received their awards for the Raymond Huang Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement and the Huang Khong Chui Lin Prize for Exceptional Academic Performance on LSE100. Of more than 1,950 students, 44 winners from across 16 different Departments were recognised with LSE100 awards.
We were delighted to welcome Professor Emma McCoy, Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) who delivered a warm opening address to this year’s winners. Professor McCoy spoke about how continually impressed she is by the creativity, insight and quality of work produced by students on LSE100. She highlighted how the skills and perspectives developed through the course not only enrich students’ time at LSE but also shape their professional journeys beyond it, encouraging this year’s awardees to continue nurturing and celebrating their interdisciplinary thinking as they move forward.
Dr Chris Blunt and Dr Jillian Terry, Associate Professors (Education) and LSE100 Co-Directors, awarded the prizes throughout the evening, starting with the winners of the Raymond Huang Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement. This prize acknowledges the exceptional, creative and collaborative interdisciplinary work demonstrated in students’ LSE100 group research projects. It is awarded to groups who were nominated by their teacher in recognition of these students’ commitment to interdisciplinary investigation, effective collaboration and engaging communication skills.
These students represent the top 9 of 392 groups who completed group research projects during their time on LSE100 in 2025/26.
Ahead of each group being awarded their prize, words from their nominating LSE100 seminar teacher were shared with the reception audience and further demonstrated how groups from across all three course themes embody innovative, interdisciplinary research. In addition to the words shared by Dr Blunt and Dr Terry, LSE100 Fellows Dr Joseph Appleton, Dr Carolina Are and Dr Danielle Cameron, and Dr Beatriz Lopes Buarque - who kindly returned to LSE for the evening - shared insightful speeches about their respective groups and the students' excellent work. Representatives from each group shared a few words about their projects, the process and thanks to their team members and LSE100 teachers for their support, guidance and prize nomination.
Dr Blunt and Dr Terry then awarded the Huang Khong Chui Lin Prize for Exceptional Academic Performance to Alex Holloway (BA Social Anthropology). This prestigious prize is awarded to the student – or students – who receive the highest overall mark on LSE100 each year.
This year’s LSE100 awards and prize reception were made possible by the generous philanthropic support received from LSE alumna Alice Huang. We were also delighted to have Alice Huang join Dr Terry and Dr Blunt on this year’s award selection panel.
A full list of this year's LSE100 award winners can be found here.
LSE students and staff listening to Professor Emma McCoy, Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education), delivering opening remarks.
Professor McCoy delivering opening remarks.
Dr Jillian Terry introducing prize-winning groups.
Winners of the Raymond Huang Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement for their project "Medroute 24/7": Chew Rui Lok (Accounting), Anna Schmitt (Finance), Michael Yim (Statistics) Yifan Zhao (Geography and Environment) and LSE100 Fellow Dr Danielle Cameron.
Winners of the Raymond Huang Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement for their project "Integration of Tuvaluan Climate Displaced Students": Abhilasha Achary (Government), Alfie Campbell (Law School), Myat Htet (Accounting), Kylie Sze (Law School), Jonathan Walford-Phekoo and Tiana Yaneva (Government).
Winners of the Raymond Huang Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement for their project "Data Center Water Crises in Santiago, Chile": Sum Yu Ho (Geography and Environment), James Waller (Accounting) and Yichen Wang (Economics).
Dr Jillian Tery with winners of the Raymond Huang Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement for their project "Political Disinformation Ampified by Algorithms": Muhammad Ashraf (Management), Eduards Dambergs (Finance), Franek Grayling (Finance), Jaiden Patel (Mathematics) and Tingshuo Zong (Statistics).
Winners of the Raymond Huang Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement for their project "Empowering Teachers: The R-AICEP AI Initiative": Deevija Agarwal (Management), Maya Benkiewicz (Management), Haoching Lin (International Relations), Zhiqi Ren (Economics) and Zhixuan Zhou (Economics).
Winners of the Raymond Huang Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement for their project "Use of animal feed and imported concentrates within animal diets within the UK agricultural system": Nela Dafydd (Geography and Environment), Aayush Dongre (Economic History), Ryan Tong (Accounting) and Ty Watson (Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method).
Winners of the Raymond Huang Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement for their project "Car Dependency and Transport Equity": Alexander Holloway (Anthropology), Whitney Nnadozie (Economics), Sophie Parker (Geography and Environment) and Rika Suzuki Cheung (Geography and Environment).
Winners of the Raymond Huang Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement for their project "Preparing UK Youth for Meaningful Political Participation": Rowan Deem (Law School), Joseph Fearon (Law School), Adelaide Sillar (Anthropology) and Shraavyaa Thalur (Psychological and Behavioural Science).
Winners of the Raymond Huang Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement for their project "Win Without War: The Fight Against the Military Industrial Complex and the Erosion of Constitutional Rights": Michael Ato (Law School) and Rumaysa Hasib (Centre for Language Studies).