Friday 7 August 2026

Congratulations to
Our 2026 Finalists

Keble undergraduates have completed their Finals and it’s been another successful year. Keble students – especially the Geographers – have also been awarded top University prizes, for their excellent performances.

Forty-two Keble students were awarded firsts in Finals, over a third of those sitting exams this year. There were stellar performances in Biomedical Sciences (all three Firsts), Pre-clinical Medicine (four out of five Firsts), Geography, and Economics & Management (both three out of five Firsts). In total, over 90% of students got a 1st or 2.1 this year.

The Geographers excelled in national and University prizes. Ben Ryrie was awarded the Met Office Academic Partnership award for the best dissertation on climate science. His dissertation evaluated an experimental numerical model of mineral aerosols in the atmosphere which used a coarser particle size distribution than the unrealistic fine particle distribution common in most models. Tracks of dust advection across the Atlantic were the basis for a process-based model evaluation. Ben also received the JCA Meldrum Fieldwork Prize from the School of Geography, and was runner-up for the JCA Meldrum Essay Prize.

Isabella Izzard won the HO Beckit Prize for the best dissertation in Physical Geography, and Thurso Willett was runner-up in the Gibs Prize, awarded for best performance in Geography Finals.

In other subjects, Rebekah Glaze was awarded the Gibbs Prize for Mathematics for her performance in the Part C examinations, and Lucy Beach received Law Faculty Prize for the best performance in the Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights paper.

Among graduate students, Jiyuan Tang received the Peter Beaconsfield Prize for Physiological Sciences, awarded for his essay on translational medicine. Cindy Feng was joint winner of the George Webb Medley Prize for Best Overall Performance in the MSc in Economics for Development.