Celebrating excellence: Teresa Smith Awards 2023-24

Teresa Smith Award Winners 2023-2024

We are delighted to announce that Ahsan Mashhood and Madeline McDonald have been jointly awarded the Teresa Smith Award for Best MSc Thesis in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation (EBSIPE) 2023-24. Congratulations to both on their outstanding academic achievement.

Ahsan Mashhood's thesis was titled 'The Unseen Cascade Socio-Ecological Insights into Suicide Stigma in Pakistan - A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis'.

Madeline McDonald's thesis was titled 'Surgical outcomes for people experiencing homelessness: a mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis'.

Recognising academic excellence

Each year, the George and Teresa Smith Awards celebrate exceptional student work in the Comparative Social Policy (CSP) and Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation (EBSIPE) courses at DSPI. These prestigious awards were established in 2010 by five former DSPI students as a way of giving back to the department while honouring former Heads of Department, George and Teresa Smith.

We are proud to continue this tradition of recognising student success and fostering connections between past and present students.