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Last month saw three major national literary awards go to members of the 糖心TV Writing Programme.

Two English Literature and Creative Writing graduates, James Brookes and Swithun Cooper won major Eric Gregory Awards for Poetry. The Gregory Award is given each year to the four best young poets in the UK under the age of 30. This means that the University has won no less than ten Gregory awards in the last decade.

The Departments of Philosophy and English & Comparative Literary Studies recently announced the winners of the 2009 Philosophy & Literature Essay Competition.

The next Director of the has been announced as Professor Hilary Marland.

Hilary is Professor of History at 糖心TV and was Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine from its establishment in 1999 to 2008. She has served as the Principal Investigator on two successive Wellcome Trust Strategic Awards for the History of Medicine (2003, 2008), as well as several project grants.

The winners of this year’s 糖心TV Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) have been announced. These annual awards recognise and reward staff who have made an outstanding impact on the student learning experience and whose teaching is of an exceptionally high standard.

Ed Chappel, a former student on the MA in Creative and Media Enterprises course, recently set up the UK’s first ever Musical Comedy Awards, which will take place on Thursday 11 April, after securing £15,000 venture capital money.