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Student Award Symposium 2023: NDSA send their thanks to all involved

Thanks go out to all who helped make the 2023 edition a great success

Work is being finalised on the editing of recordings from our recent NDSA Student Awards Symposium, along with additional website content from the successful graduates. In the meantime we'd like to express our gratitude to all who supported the event.

To the successful graduates we say congratulations and thank you for presenting your wonderful projects to us all.


Lauren Leyva, Nick Jefferson, Rachel Levy, Zana Kentish Brade, Anna Longley & Jacqueline Hill. Your respective presentations will be online soon.

Further congratulations must go to the Commendation winning projects, with works from Anna Sutcliffe, Nicola Dawson, Joe Mills & Anna Greig. We invite you to submit your projects to feature on our website.

Thanks must also go out to individuals, businesses and organisations, including:

RIBA East Midlands; Daniel Stanyard ACIM, Matt Blakeley, Christine Cavanagh MCIM
Ibstock Brick; Ben Wildsmith & Joshua Cox for their sponsorship contribution
Binks Yard; Liam Morgan
Nottingham Trent University; Dr. Lois Woods, Marisela Mendoza, Ana Souto
University of Nottingham; Tim Collett
University of Derby; Eleni Tracada
Joshua von Fragstein from NDSA and Andreina Marquina for invaluable assistance on the night and our Treasurer Mark Jermy at Halsall Lloyd Partnership.

The panellists were excellent and really set the tone as exemplar industry figures. We'll also have their presentations up soon.
Thomas Bennett from Studio Bark, Ayesha Batool, PhD from Cudd Bentley Consulting Ltd, Steve Banks from Groundworks Architects LLP and Greta Jonsson from 100percentplus.

We had some excellent audience engagement with notable contributions from Jason Bierton & Councillor Pavlos Kotsonis.

Delivered by Paul MacMahon for the NDSA.

Paul MacMahon