PowerBar Prize for Outstanding Professional Commitment in Sport and Exercise Nutrition
This prize is awarded to the student who demonstrated high levels of commitment to the practice of sport and exercise nutrition while studying at Oxford Brookes. There are no fixed criteria for this award, but recipients typically demonstrate their relative merit by the extent to which they engage in a range of professional practice behaviours during their period of study at Oxford Brookes. This may include, but is not limited to, any of the following:
- Providing support to Applied Sport and Exercise Nutrition MSc students in ways that help other students achieve a better understanding or practice of sport and exercise nutrition
- Participation (paid or unpaid) in non-course activities related to sport and exercise nutrition (e.g. supporting local sports teams or athletes by way of advice, presentations, taking useful measurements, etc)
- Participation in ongoing department research or consultancy work
- Writing nutrition articles for publication in relevant magazines or websites
- Attending relevant conferences (e.g. ISSSM, BASEs, NUTSOC, etc)
- Representing Oxford Brookes to the wider public in a positive manner
Polar UK Prize for Outstanding Research in Sport and Exercise Nutrition (formerly the Human Kinetics Prize)
This award is presented to the student with the highest (or near highest) mark in the Research Project module (module code: NUTR7008).
Our thanks go to PowerBar, Human Kinetics and Polar UK for offering these awards.
Prize winners
Year (class) | Award | Recipient |
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2009-2010 | PowerBar | Andri Pieri |
2009-2010 | Human Kinetics | Sarah Graham |
2010-2011 | PowerBar | Michael Whatman |
2010-2011 | Human Kinetics | Stuart Kirk |
2011-2012 | PowerBar | Leigh Thomas |
2011-2012 | Human Kinetics | Felicity Hares |
2012-2013 | PowerBar | Andrew Barnett |
2012-2013 | Human Kinetics | Adrian Hastings |
2013-2014 | PowerBar | Herlinda Alcala |
2013-2014 | Human Kinetics | Elizabeth Foot |
2014-2015 | PowerBar | Andrew Marley |
2014-2015 | Human Kinetics | Jane Ward |
2015-2016 | PowerBar | Stephanie Catlin |
2015-2016 | Human Kinetics | Portia Rees-Jones |
2016-2017 | PowerBar | Alexander Beaumont |
2016-2017 | Human Kinetics | Hannah Willoughby |
2017-18 | Human Kinetics | Elizabeth Cragg |
2017-18 | Powerbar | Kiera Wilkinson |
2018-19 | Polar UK | Sam Allen |
2018-19 | Powerbar | Dolores Dravinec |
2019-2020 | Polar UK | Nancy Lunnon |
2019-2020 | Powerbar | Megan Bentley |