Aske Project Awards

Aske Project Awards

On Wednesday 18 January, Headmaster Peter Hamilton was delighted to award the prizes to this year’s Aske Project winners at a special assembly in the School’s Seldon Hall.

The aims of the prestigious Aske Project, now in its fourth year, are to promote academic enquiry beyond the scope of regular A-level study, to develop independent study and research skills, and to encourage initiative and creative thinking within the student body. 

As was showcased in the School’s celebration assembly this morning, the prize winning entries demonstrate the considerable academic endeavour and talent of our students. The range of questions posed and depth of enquiry across our Sixth Form body is, we believe, quite unique and we are proud to present the winning entries:

Sohum Patel
First Prize       
Could Sickle Cell Anaemia save your life?
Exploring the intersection of heterozygote advantage with population genetics.

Jonathan Walker
Second Prize
Does Sen’s capabilities approach to development represent a status quo bias or genuine driver of progress?

George Lawrence
Aske Prize: Primary Research
A randomised experiment measuring responses to monetary incentives.

Joshua Silverbeck
Tietz STEM Prize: Maths
Ranking web pages and tracking terrorists: PageRank and its applications.

Mario Demetroudi
Tietz STEM Prize: Physics
Time’s Arrow: an investigation into the true nature of time.

Bruce Parris
Tietz STEM Prize: Applied Science
How physics can help bassoonists.

Richard Matheson
Humanities Prize: English and Law
Can illegal wars ever be morally justified?

Oliver Nash
Humanities Prize: History and Politics
Was the left in Spain responsible for the collapse of the second Spanish Republic?

Bilal Hasna
Humanities Prize: Philosophy and Classics
‘In the particular is contained the universal’: the philosopher as poet in Plato’s Symposium.

The School would like to extend our thanks to our panel of external markers for the enormous contribution they made to the success of the project. If you have an enquiry about a particular project please contact our Director of Studies.