South Eastern Division Prizes and Award Winners
Welcome to the South Eastern Division prizes/award winners page.
For more information on the Poster prizes/awards offered by the Division, please contact the Division Administrator Gareth Griffiths.
For more information on the Poetry prize/award offered by the Division, please contact the Division Committee Manager for the South Eastern Division, Karen Morgan.
South Eastern Division Prizes 2024
We are pleased to announce that we are now open to submissions for our two Poster prizes and our Poetry Prize. The closing date for submissions is 17 April 2024.
Open to all SAS Doctors, Higher Trainees ST4-6 and Core Trainees CT1-3 working in the South Eastern Division who are Specialist Associates, Affiliates, PMPTs or members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
You are invited to submit a poster and abstract on any area of psychiatry.
A limited number of posters will be chosen to be displayed at the Autumn Conference and the abstract printed in the Programme and Abstracts Booklet. Posters must not exceed 750 mm x 1000 mm - portrait.
A maximum of 20 posters will be considered for pre-judging and these will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Only one poster may be submitted per applicant.
All successful submissions must be able to attend the South Eastern Division Spring Conference on 8 May 2024 at RCPsych, 21 Prescot Street, London E1 8BB.
Please ensure you read all the regulations before making a submission.
Rules and regulations and entry form.
Open to all Foundation Year doctors and medical students working or studying in the South Eastern Division who are Affiliates or Members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
You are invited to submit a poster and abstract on any area of psychiatry.
A limited number of posters will be chosen to be displayed at the Autumn Conference and the abstract printed in the Programme and Abstracts booklet. Posters must not exceed 750 mm x 1000 mm - portrait.
A maximum of 20 posters will be considered for pre-judging and these will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Only one poster may be submitted per applicant.
All successful submissions must be able to attend the South Eastern Division Spring Conference on 8 May 2024 at RCPsych, 21 Prescot Street, London E1 8BB.
Please ensure you read all the regulations before making a submission.
Open to anyone with a connection to mental health who resides in the geographical region of the Royal College of Psychiatrists South Eastern Division.
All entrants must have some connection with mental health, i.e. people who use mental health services or their family/friends, professionals providing care, people working in the mental health sector (e.g. ward clerks, secretaries, cleaners, etc).
You are invited to submit an unpublished poem with a theme related to any aspect of mental health.
The poems of the winners will be published on this website and in the Programme and Abstracts booklet for the annual Spring Conference.
South Eastern Division Award Winners
Spring 2023 Winners
South Eastern Division Poetry Prize Winner
Dr Shah Tarfarosh - Infinite Spectrum.
Autumn 2022 Winner
Autumn 2021 Winners
Overall Winner
Dr Amy Kunicki - 'Predicting healthy ageing and neurodegenerative disease using diagnostic biomarkers of the gut microbiome.'
Entry demonstrating greatest innovation/service improvement
Dr Susannah Whyte - 'Time for movement in our practice? - CIGH monitoring in an acute mental health trust'.
2nd Prize
Dr Emma New - 'Improving the Safety of Medical Handover in Oxford Health'
Autumn 2020 Winners
Overall Winner
Dr Kah Long Aw – 'Schizophrenia and Covid-19: Are standards being met during the Covid-19 Pandemic?'.
Entry demonstrating greatest innovation/service improvement
Dr Anne Chua and Dr Sangeeta Makh – 'Implementation of Treatment Escalation Plans in a Community Psychiatric Hospital'.
2nd prize
Dr Paras Agarwal – Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome on Clozapine Monotherapy: A case report.
3rd prize
Dr Imogen Rees – Monitoring and replacing Vitamin D on an inpatient psychiatric unit for females over 65.
Overall Winner
Dr Helen Lee and Dr Adam Whyte - 'Testing the testers: survey of medical trainees’ knowledge of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)'.
Entry demonstrating greatest innovation/service improvement
Dr Ben Thompson, Tanith Reehal - 'Use of virtual speech and language therapy in a low secure autism ward'.
2nd Prize
Dr Shah Tarfarosh.
3rd Prize
Dr Charlotte Jones and Dr Abigail Hood.
South Eastern Division Poetry Prize Winner
Beth Rooney – Dad Jokes.
Spring 2019 Winners
Overall Winner
Dr Victoria Dawe – "Homelessness and Access to Healthcare in Portsmouth"
Greatest Innovation/Service Improvement
Dr Rachel Kurien-Walsh – "Family and carer involvement in acute psychiatric hospital admissions: a closed loop audit of inpatients on Meridian ward, Millview Hospital between April-May, and August-September 2018"
Overall Winner
Dr Holly Taylor – "Service user and relatives experience of a shared care model between specialist and generic mental health services for those with First Episode Psychosis over the age of 35"
Winner
Louisa Campbell – "Finding Nico"
Finding Nico
Was it her, dancing on top of a hundred-foot pole,
calling the world to come up?
Was it her that married the stranger?
Was it her low that divorced him?
Each year she signs up to save the world; each year she drops
out, feeling the air pressing down like an anvil.
She cries. She laughs. She says,
My life is a party that nobody comes to.
Often, she feels like screaming;
sometimes she does –
it sounds like a fountain of glass.
She sees herself in the pieces,
the same way lost treasures are found
while searching for something else.