Student wins awards
Current Portsmouth Postgraduate student, David Davey, has recently returned from a national security awards ceremony with a runners up prize under his belt. David who also studied an undergraduate degree at Portsmouth was nominated for the prize due to the exceptional level of his undergraduate dissertation.
David’s dissertation ‘The Changing of Stewarding Dynamics at Premiership Football Clubs: A Case Study – Shiretown F.C’ was undertaken by giving out questionnaires to a number of club stewards and by carrying out an interview with the safety office of an anonymous football club. David was nominated for the Wilf Knight award by Institute of Criminal Justice Studies (ICJS) lecturers Mark Button and Azeem Aleem.
Each year the Security Institute seeks nominations from Higher Education establishments with security related courses for outstanding pieces of work. ICJS lecturer Mark Button says, “Dave produced a dissertation of excellent quality that secured interesting and original findings on stadia security and stewarding. He produced the best security related dissertation from all our courses and we therefore nominated him for the Wilf Knight award. I’m really pleased he managed to secure a runners up prize.” The awards judges referred to David’s work as “a timely and detailed piece of work.”
The security excellence awards were held on October 22nd 2009 at the London Hilton Hotel on Park Lane and played host to the Wilf Knight award for the first time. The award aims to recognise those who are new into the security industry and to encourage and reward their achievements. The award is named after the late husband of the former Security Institute director, Patricia Knight. Wilf Knight held a MA and MPhil from Cambridge University and believed that it was these qualifications that helped him achieve his undoubted success in the security industry and the Police Force. The award is a fitting tribute to someone who recalls the need for a link between academia and its practical application. This year saw the creation of a new MSc in Security Management within ICJS, a fantastic opportunity for the Department and an area of academia with huge amounts of potential, something which David’s award demonstrates first hand.
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