Submit your essay/project
Welcome to the launch of the 2010 Undergraduate Awards of Ire- land and Northern Ireland. The Awards were established on October 20th 2008 to recognise and reward Ireland’s most innovative young knowledge creators, to catalyse the development of the brightest undergraduates, and to inspire all undergraduates to achieve.
Student Eligibility
Round ONE of the 2010 Awards are open to FINAL year or PENULTIMATE year UNDERGRADUATE students ENROLLED in DEGREE programmes in the academic year, 2009/2010, AND to FINAL year students ENROLLED in DEGREE programmes in the academic year 08/09. We warmly welcome students studying on either a PART-TIME or FULL-TIME basis. Some part-time degree programmes do not have an explicit final or penultimate year as students accumulate credits to progress to graduation. If this applies to you, you are eligible as long as you have attained at least 1/3 of the credits necessary to graduate in your degree programme. MATURE students (FINAL year or PENULTIMATE year UNDERGRADUATES) are also eligible including those who have obtained a previous degree AS LONG as they are CURRENTLY ENROLLED in an undergraduate degree programme in the academic year 2009/2010. (The deadline for submitting in ROUND ONE is MARCH 15th. Entry criteria for subsequent rounds may vary)
Q1. – Are you a final year or penultimate year student studying for an undergraduate degree in the academic year 2009/2010 or were you in your final year in the academic year 08/09 YES/NO (If NO, proceed to Question 2. If YES please check submission eligibility below)
Q 2. – Are you studying a part-time degree in the academic year 2009/2010 and have attained at least 1/3 of the credits necessary to graduate in your degree programme)? YES/NO (if NO, you are not eligible to enter the awards. If YES please check submission eligibility below)
Submission Eligibility
Eligible submissions are drawn from your PRE-CORRECTED COURSE WORK and should be in the form of an ESSAY/PROJECT. The submission will therefore be text based with images/graphics where relevant and take the form of a critical/analytical discourse. The word count must be between 1,750 and a MAXIMUM of 5,000 words.
Your submission should only be entered ONCE to the Awards into ONE of the 25 categories (see below). You should submit to the subject category to which your essay/project predominately belongs. You can submit a MAXIMUM of 3 papers IN TOTAL but ONLY one paper will be short-listed for any one student.
Your submission should represent the highest standard of intellectual and scholarly achievement in your chosen field. The minimum acceptable mark for submission is a high 2.1, or above (or equivalent grade). It should embody a piece of independent and original work together with a clear identification of its aims and objectives. The title of your submission should be accurate and succinct clearly indicating the topic, issue or questions under discussion. Reference materials must be correctly used and cited in footnotes and bibliography and presented in accordance with the usual scholarly conventions.
Your submission is required to be accompanied by a 100 word abstract together with a number of keywords that reflect the central themes of your submission. Finally you should submit your ESSAY/PROJECT in the form of a word document or PDF file.
Group submissions are NOT eligible for the 2010 awards. Dissertations are NOT eligible UNLESS they are pre-corrected course work and meet the word count criteria.
The IDEAL entry will answer yes to all of the following questions. (We understand that these criteria will not fit perfectly across all disciplines and will accommodate a degree of variation where justifiable.)
1. Is this submission your own work AND does it embody a piece of independent and original work together with a clear identification of its aims and objectives? (please note that we will run a plagiarism check on submissions)
2. Is your submission in the form of an ESSAY/PROJECT?
3. Does your submission meet with the grade requirements? (please note we require a high 2.1, or above (or equivalent grade)
4. Is the title of your submission accurate and succinct and does it clearly indicate the topic, issue or questions under discussion?
5. Have you correctly cited references in footnotes and in a bibliography in a recognised citation format?
6. Is your submission between 1,750 – 5,000 words? (please note submissions outside this word count range are not eligible)
7. Have you prepared a 100 word abstract and a list of keywords to include with your submission?
8. Is this the first time you are submitting this ESSAY/PROJECT to these Awards? (please do not enter the same submission twice)
9. Have you submitted THREE or fewer ESSAYs/PROJECT s to the 2010 Awards?
The IDEAL entry will answer yes to all of the above questions.
To submit your entry to Undergraduate Awards of Ireland & Northern Ireland please click here.
