Celebrating Excellence: Announcing the Herbal Medicine Award Winners
This year’s Student Award winners exemplify the very best of hard work, curiosity, and intellectual dedication. These awards do far more than just reward top grades; they recognise students who have pushed the boundaries of their potential, overcome challenges, and demonstrated exceptional mastery in their fields of study. As we honour their outstanding achievements, we celebrate not only their personal triumphs, but also the educational excellence that inspires our students to show that the future of the profession is in safe hands.
Read about this year’s winners below:
First Year Awards
Henry Potter Award for Best First Year Student (Sponsored by The Herbal Medicine Trust)
Georgia Fundinger (Heartwood Education) – Scored the highest overall mark for her first year of studies.
Olivia Wayne (Betonica School of Herbal Medicine) – Gained an outstanding Distinction across all subjects.
Matilda Emery (Lincoln College) – Recognized for excellent overall grades, impressive academic ability, knowledge, and enthusiasm.
Final Year Awards
The Arthur Barker Best Graduate Award (Sponsored by The Herbal Medicine Trust)
Claire Elizabeth Turner (Heartwood Education) – Awarded based on overall course grade and final year grade.
Michael Burns Award for Outstanding Final Year Student
Rosie Latham (Betonica School of Herbal Medicine) – Recognized for incredible resilience and dedication to her studies.
Dorothy Carroll Award (Sponsored by The Herbal Medicine Trust)
Tamsin Djaba (Lincoln College) – Achieved the highest average grade in her cohort and demonstrated exceptional skill and technique in her final clinical examination.
Technical Awards
Phyto Products Award for Pharmacology
Izabella Szekeres (Heartwood Education) – Authored an outstanding Herbal Safety essay.
Panacea Health Award for Materia Medica
Becky James (Betonica School of Herbal Medicine) – Awarded for the highest graded Final Clinical Exam for medicine, demonstrating outstanding knowledge and commitment.
The Duncan Napier Prize for Phytochemical Excellence
Kae Thorn (Lincoln College) – Scored the highest grade in their Plant Science (phytochemistry) assessment.
Creative Awards
The Rutland Biodynamics Award for Innovation
Georgia Williams (Heartwood Education) – Presented an imaginative business plan with careful consideration of ethics, sustainability, legalities, branding, and product development.
Aeon Excellence in Writing Award
Charlotte Russell (Heartwood Education) – Recognized for her Plants in Practice 2 written herbal case assessment.
Herbal Medicine Trust Award for Promotion
Karen Richmond (Betonica School of Herbal Medicine) – Authored an excellent dissertation and successfully raised funding from Bath Spa University to research herbal medicine practice.
Herbal Apothecary Research Award
Ruth King (Lincoln College) – Submitted an illuminating study on attitudes surrounding herbal medicine for perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms, featuring equal engagement of male participants and receiving one of the top marks in her cohort.