The winner of the Subject Centre's undergraduate student essay competition 2010

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LLAS runs an annual student award competition open to anyone studying languages, linguistics or area studies as part of their HE course.

The winning entry 2010

The winner

The winner of the Subject Centre's undergraduate student award competition 2010 is Daniel Finch-Race, a 3rd year Modern European Languages student at the University of Edinburgh. Daniel wrote a promotional article aimed at encouraging school pupils to study languages, linguistics or area studies at university. Read Daniel's winning essay: "One very big adventure".

Runners up

  • Sarah Louise Badrock, 1st year Middle Eastern and Modern European Language student at the University of Manchester
  • Ciaran Roe, 4th year Italian and English Literature student at the University of Edinburgh
  • Rosie Shimmin, 4th year German and Politics student at Cardiff University
  • India-Chloe Woof, 3rd year French and Linguistics student at the University of Sheffield

Congratulations to all our winners!

The competition

Would you like
to win £300 for
a 1,000-word essay or a five-minute podcast/vidcast?

Well now's
your chance!

This annual competition is run by The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and in addition to the prize money winners have their essay/recording published on the Subject Centre website, and are invited to attend the HE Academy Conference.  Runners-up also receive a prize and have their entries published on our website. Details of the 2011 competition will be announced later this year.

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Previous winners

For examples of what makes an award-winning essay, read the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 winning essays.

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