Excellence and outstanding achievement is recognised and celebrated across all of our undergraduate programmes. Regardless of which programme you choose, the study and practice of healthcare is an intense, demanding and hugely rewarding experience.
That experience begins on your first day with us, and throughout your time at UCD we will encourage and support you to go the extra mile in pursuit of academic and technical excellence. Many of our awards and medals are named after distinguished graduates, generous donors or inspirational former teachers. Student awards, bestowed in their honour, demonstrate our history, heritage and ongoing commitment to excellence.
Recognising Outstanding Achievement
In the company of academic excellence: Professor Louise Rainford and Dr Rachel Toomey, alongside some of the exceptional 2022/23 Radiography Medal Awards winners. Congratulations to our outstanding students for their remarkable academic journeys.
From left to right: Dr Rachel Toomey, Emel Hajdari-Duraj (Olive Flemin Medal Awardee), Clodagh Farrell (Deirdre Conroy Medal Awardee), Anita Watkins (Philips Medal Awardee), Lydia Power (O'Farrell Medal Awardee), and Professor Louise Rainford.
The O'Farrell Medal is awarded to the candidate who, having passed the examination as a whole, achieves the highest mark for the project presented as part of the degree examination in Radiography. This medal has been established in memory of the late Dr Denis O'Farrell, a radiologist at St Vincent's University Hospital who had a major role in initiating radiography education in Ireland.
2022/23 | Lydia Power |
2021/22 | Steven Riordan |
2020/21 | Clodagh Louise Mason |
2019/20 | Aileen O'Shaughnessy |
2018/19 | Niall Seymour |
2017/18 | Maria Malone |
2016/17 | Rachel Moyter |
2015/16 | Ciara Crofton |
2014/15 | Rebecca Dunne & Saundra O'Connor |
2013/14 | Anne McMenamin |
2012/13 | Niall Burke |
2011/12 | Michelle O'Connor |
2010/11 | Andrea Mylotte, Anna Roe |
2009/10 | Avril Egan |
2008/09 | Sarah Cronin |
2007/08 | Naomi Galvin |
2006/07 | Phillip Ryan |
This Medal and prize, endowed by Philips Electronics Ireland Ltd., is awarded to the candidate who obtains an overall first place in the final degree GPA which combines stages 3 and 4 of the Radiography programme, provided that an aggregate honours GPA greater than or equal to 3.4 is obtained.
2022/23 | Anita Watkins |
2021/22 | Grace Judge |
2020/21 | Roisin McDonagh |
2019/20 | Ciara Maguire |
2018/19 | Ciara McKeown |
2017/18 | Andrea Burke |
2016/17 | Alanna Barry |
2015/16 | Avril Lysaght |
2014/15 | Mary Jean Dore |
2013/14 | Anne McMenamin |
2012/13 | Niall Burke |
2011/12 | Orlaith Fitzgerald |
2010/11 | Eleanor Ryan |
2009/10 | Joan Barber |
2007/08 | Sarah Ruddy |
2006/07 | Karen Purcell |
2005/06 | Yvonne Corrigan |
This Medal and prize is awarded to the candidate who, having passed the third year examinations as a whole, achieves the highest aggregate score for Technology of Radiography in the second and third years.
2022/23 | Aisling Coffey |
2021/22 | Kayleigh Morris |
2020/21 | Kayleigh Morris |
2019/20 | Tan Wee Siang |
2018/19 | Ciara Maguire |
2017/18 | Gillian McDonald and Jill Creedon |
2016/17 | Deirdre Egan and Aneesa Smith |
2015/16 | Siobhan Killeen |
2014/15 | Mary Jean Dore |
2013/14 | Anne McMenamin |
2012/13 | Ellen Cronin |
2011/12 | Orlaith Fitzgerald |
2010/11 | Adrienne Schofield |
2009/10 | Breda Fenton |
2008/09 | Mary Randles |
2007/08 | Sarah Ruddy |
The award will go to the student who achieved the highest overall GPA on completion of the MSc Ultrasound programme. In the event that two students have the same GPA, the award will go to whichever student achieved the highest mark in their final clinical examination.
2022/23 | Rachel Motyer |
2021/22 | Caoileann O Connor |
2020/21 | Alanna Barry |
2019/20 | Anne McMenamin |
2018/19 | Eimear Bourke |
This award was granted to the student who obtained the highest total marks on MSc Programme. The award was discontinued in 2011/2012.
2010/11 | Karen Purcell |
2008/09 | Caroline Gallagher |
2007/08 | Audrey Nagle |
2006/07 | Audrey Nagle |
This award is granted to the student who obtains the highest total marks on MSc Programme.
2018/19 | Not Awarded |
2017/18 | Not Awarded |
2016/17 | Not Awarded |
2015/16 | Mohamad Khairul Bin Yusof |
2014/15 | Carmel Harding |
2012/13 | Siti Fatimmah Muhamad |
2010/11 | Sayed Ahmed Abduljalil |
2008/09 | Lynda Magee |
2007/08 | Pamela Doyle |
2006/07 | Pamela Doyle |
This award is granted to the student who obtains the highest total marks on MSc Programme.
2019/20 | Philomena Donohoe |
2018/19 | Not Awarded |
2017/18 | Not Awarded |
2016/17 | Cabrina McKenna |
2015/16 | Joan Barber |
2014/15 | Ailbhe Doherty |
2012/13 | Sarah Ruddy |
2010/11 | Nollaig McCann |
2009/10 | Nollaig McCann |
2008/09 | Melanie Jackson |
2007/08 | Helena Frawley |
2006/07 | Helena Frawley |
This award is granted to the student who obtains the highest total marks on MSc Programme.
2010/11 | Ciara Clewes |
2009/10 | Louise Margaret Lefimil (nee McDermott) |
2008/09 | Anne Leen |
This Medal is awarded by the Irish Institute of Radiography for the Best Practical Student in the graduating class of the BSc Radiography programme.
Olive Fleming was a stalwart committee member of the Irish branch of the Society of Radiographers, who was very active in organising Society meetings as well as the annual national conference.
2022/23 | Emel Hajdari-Duraj |
2021/22 | Siobhan McDonagh / Aoife Murray |
2020/21 | Barry Ian Kennedy |
2019/20 | Aileen O'Shaughnessy |
2018/19 | Katie Roche |
2017/18 | Eimear Ryan |
2016/17 | Tudor Varga |
2015/16 | Siobhán Killeen |
2014/15 | David Levins |
2013/14 | Michaela Oyuga |
2012/13 | Eimear Bourke |
2011/12 | Liam Downey & Sam Ethell |
2010/11 | Shauna Murphy |
2009/10 | Alison Murphy |
2008/09 | Siobhan Stanbrook |
2007/08 | Sarah Ruddy |
2006/07 | Louise Pearman |
The Kodak Ireland MSc Award was offered to a student proceeding from a Higher Diploma in Diagnostic Imaging to a Second Year MSc (Radiography) programme who was recognised to have submitted the best thesis proposal. This prize was discontinued in 2007/2008.
2007/08 | Audrey Nagle |
2006/07 | Audrey Nagle |
The Kate Matthews Research Medal is awarded annually for the best original article accepted for publication in an international peer-reviewed journal arising from a Stage 4 radiography project. The publication must be accepted within 18 months of graduation. The Medal is awarded in appreciation of the efforts by current staff member and former Head of Section, Kate Matthews to promote increased research activity within the Diagnostic Imaging Section.
2022/23 | Wee Siang Tan |
2019/20 | Caoimhe Shanley |
2017/18 | Nicola Cleary & Ciara Crofton (ex-aequo) |
2016/17 | Not Awarded |
2015/16 | James Harding |
2014/15 | Not Awarded |
2013/14 | Niall Burke |
2012/13 | Michelle O'Connor |
2011/12 | Not Awarded |
2010/11 | Brendan Kelly |
2009/10 | Catherine Kinsella |
2008/09 | Stephan McNulty |
2007/08 | Louise Pearman |
2006/07 | Cherrie Wade |
This Medal was established by the Diagnostic Imaging programme, in memory of the late Deirdre Conroy. Deirdre was a stage 3 Radiography student, a talented and enthusiastic member of the UCD Kayaking Club and a leading student representative for her fellow stage 3 Radiography students and the Erasmus Radiography Programme.
The Medal is awarded for the best presentation by radiography students following their visit to a foreign country under the Erasmus scheme.
2022/23 | Clodagh Farrell |
2021/22 | Kathleen Buckley |
2019/20 | Antonina Tcacenco |
2018/19 | Rebekah Daly |
2017/18 | Killian Lavelle and Ciara Skleton |
2016/17 | Amy Duggan |
2015/16 | Caitríona Ní Chathasaigh |
2014/15 | Sarah Drew |
2013/14 | James Harding |
2012/13 | Kelly Foley-Friel |
2011/12 | Marcus Traynor |
2010/11 | Eleanor Ryan |
2009/10 | Jamie Doran |
2008/09 | Mary Randles |