QBS Prizegiving Summer 2023
On Wednesday 29 June 2023 we held our annual QBS Prizegiving ceremony, celebrating our students and graduates with prizes awarded from top businesses and organisations.
On Wednesday 29 June we celebrated the hard work of our graduates and students with a prizegiving ceremony for family and friends in our new building at Riddel Hall.
Top businesses and organisations dedicated to future talent supported a total of 78 prizes on the day.
Jason Smyth (middle) was a joint winner of the Foundation Scholarship for Best Student in Finance Level 2, and brought his four-month-old daughter and partner along to celebrate. Also pictured: Lisa Burns of QMS Placement Office.
We are enormously grateful for the continued support of: ACCA, Acumen Resources, Allen and Overy, ASG & Partners, ASM, Baker Tilly Mooney Moore, Barclays Corporate, BDO Northern Ireland, CACI, Chartered Accountants Ireland, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (Ireland), Citi Belfast, Deloitte, EY, First Derivative, GMcG Chartered Accountants, Hannover Re, KPMG, Legal-Island, Lunn’s the Jewellers, Mercer, Randox Laboratories Ltd, SAS UK and Ireland, SCOR, Spence and Partners, Spirit AeroSystems Ltd, Susquehanna International Group, UTV Ltd, and XPS Pensions Group.
A special welcome is extended to Baker McKenzie, the HUB group and Investec who join us this year as new supporters.
To the family of Micéal Murphy, one of our former students in Accounting, we are grateful for your continued support. Micéal was one of the top three performing Level 2 students in Financial Accounting in the academic year 2014-15. Micéal made such a positive impact both within the School and at BDO that this prize is presented in his memory. His legacy lives on with each new cohort of students.
(L-R): Fidelma Murphy, mother of Micéal Murphy; winners of the The BDO Award in Memory of Micéal Murphy 2023: Katie McAuley and Thomas Jordan; and Lisa McAleer of BDO NI. Note: Leah Doherty was also a joint winner in absentia.
The drinks reception was kindly supported by Deloitte.
A huge congratulations to all our worthy prizewinners for their hard work throughout the year, we are proud of you all.
A full list of 2023 prizewinners and their business supporters can be found here.
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For enquiries about images from the day, or supporting the next prizegiving ceremony, please contact Kimberley White on k.white@qub.ac.uk.