Recent beneficiaries of the AMC-administered awards are detailed below.
Undergraduate Awards:
| Ailie Donald Prize | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | Alan Yee Kin Yan | |
| 2021/2022 | Isaac Yip | |
| 2020/2021 | Michael Goessler | |
| 2019/2020 | Cliodhna Hughes | |
| 2018/2019 | Priscilla Lam | |
| 2016/2017 | Maria Evjen |
| The Angus McIntosh Prize | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | The AM Prize was awarded to Medeleine Pritchard Congratulations, Madeleine! | |
| 2023-2024 | The prize was co-awarded to Beth Avery & Shing Hin Yip Amazing work! | |
| 2022-2023 | The prize was co-awarded to Niamh Corkey (Intonation control for neural text-to-speech synthesis with plynomial models of F0), Sophie Anderson (A Case in Point: A Qualitative Analysis of Pointing Gesture Usage between Vlog Genres) and Olga Sawczuk (Characterising Emerging Heritage Language Identities: A Case Study of Polish-Scottish Adolescents in Saturday Language Schools) | |
| 2021/2022 | Cliodhna Hughes | |
| 2020/2021 | This year's prize went to Katie Goddard. Her thesis was also awarded one of this year's LAGB Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics prizes. Amazing work, Katie! | |
| 2019/2020 | The prize was co-awarded to Yuqi Qin for his dissertation "Preparatory Tongue Movement for the Articulation of the Word ‘yeah’" and to Hannah Fern for "The Impact of Autism-Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Cognitive Deficits and Abilities on Perspective-Taking and Pragmatic Reasoning during Referential Communication" Congratulation to both! | |
| 2018/2019 | The prize was co-awarded to Rebecka Elm for her outstanding dissertation "The diachronic development of substitutive ᴅᴏ in Old to Middle French and Middle English: A comparative study using parsed corpora". Rebecka's work also received the LAGB Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation Prize Well done, Rebecka! | ![]() |
| 2018/2019 | The prize was co-awarded to Nina Markl for her excellent dissertation, entitled "“It’s just a different kind of life up there. Like, they’re nice but it’s not [hom].” A sociophonetic study of FACE and GOAT in Leith." Congratulations, Nina! | ![]() |
| 2017/2018 | The prize was awarded to Alex Kalomoiros for his outstanding dissertation entitled "A Semantic Analysis of the Inclusive Plural in English". Congratulations, Alex! | ![]() |
| 2016/2017 | The 2016/17 Angus McIntosh Prize was awarded to Rose Woolhouse. Her dissertation was on "Pragmatics, Prosody and Pronoun Interpretations in L1 and L2 Speakers of English". Congratulations, Rose! | ![]() |
| 2015/2016 | The receipient of the 2015/16 Angus McIntosh Prize for the best Honours dissertation in Linguistics and English Language is Ms. Meira Kalasegaran. The title of the successful paper is 'Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous bilingual acquisition of tense: the effects of Chinese and Tamil' Well done, Meira! | ![]() |
| 2014/2015 | The winner of the inaugural Prize is Asha Stewart. Her prize-winning dissertation, entitled 'Accounting for the emergence of referentiality from musical protolanguage: a role for cultural evolution', can be accessed here. Congratulations to Asha for this truly outstanding piece of scholarship. | ![]() |
| The Patterson Prize | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2016/2017 | Alex Kalomoiros | |
| 2015/2016 | Maria Krümpelmann | |
| 2014/2015 | Josua Dahmen |
| The Derek Britton Scholarship (now closed) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2016/2017 | Matthew Sung | |
| 2015/2016 | Amy Martin | |
| 2014/2015 | Rosanna Burton | |
| 2013/2014 | Yova Kementchdjhieva |
Graduate Awards:
| The Ailie Donald Msc. Scholarship | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Ivaylo Youmerski |
| The McIntosh-Patterson PhD Studentship | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2024-2027 | The fourth scholar is Jack Heitman. You can read more about his project here here | ![]() |
| 2021-2024 | The third 'Mac-Pat' scholar is Ina Mangold. Find out more about her and her project here. | ![]() |
| 2019/2022 | The second beneficiary is Sarah van Eyndhoven. Find more information on her background and project here. | ![]() |
| 2015/2018 | The first studentship was awarded to Jade Sandsted. Find more information on his background and project here. | ![]() |











