We are thrilled to announce that Carly Welham, who is doing an undergraduate Major in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Faculty of Arts at UBC, has been awarded the prestigious George Berkeley Gold Medal in Dublin, Ireland by the international awarding body The Undergraduate Awards.
The world’s only pan-discipline academic awards program, The Undergraduate Awards (UA) identifies and recognizes the most creative and nuanced arguments and ideas coming out at undergraduate level internationally across 25 disciplines.
Each year, the top performing students – winners and highly commended entrants – are invited to the UA Global Summit. The 2014 UA Global Summit welcomed 120 future leaders to Dublin, Ireland to spark cutting-edge ideas, forge lasting collaborations, and encourage responsible leadership.
The 120 winners and highly commended students from around the world, and representing 50 universities, attended the medal presentation ceremony in Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral on Friday, 21st November, 2014. Winners were awarded the George Berkeley Gold Medal for their leading-edge research and course work.
GRSJ Major Carly Welham won the Cultural Studies Category for her paper Selfies’ vs ‘Sealfies’: Inuit Subsistence Hunting, Food Insecurity, and Animal Rights. Carly was the overall winner in her category and therefore has been published in the UA Academic Journal 2014.
The 120 attendees are the top performing entrants out of 4,792 submissions UA received this year from 209 universities across 27 countries. Attendees came from America, Austria, Australia, Bangledesh, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Nigeria, Netherlands, Singapore, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The Undergraduate Awards also welcomed an inspiring array of thought leaders to speak during the UA Global Summit. This year’s speakers included Oscar-winning film producer Lord David Puttnam, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire, former Legal Counsel and Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs at the United Nations, Irish barrister, Patricia O’Brien, Mars One candidate Prof. Joeseph Roche, and critically acclaimed choreographer and MacArthur Genius Kyle Abraham, among others.
