{"id":38922,"date":"2025-06-25T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=38922"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:29:01","slug":"founders-prize-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/2025\/06\/25\/founders-prize-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Founders Prize winner 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are delighted to announce that the winner of this years\u2019 Founders&#8217; Prize is Guo Sheng Xu, a current PhD student at CCCU. It was awarded for his published article on \u2018Student&#8217;s learning motivation in English for specific purpose in Chinse universities\u2019 published in International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education. Vol. 13.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guo was honoured with the gift by Sophie Chadwick, Director of Graduate Futures at CCCU, pictured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the first prize I have received in my PhD journey. It is of special significance for my academic life. It motivates me to go further academically. I love CCCU and Canterbury,&#8221; commented Guo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Founders\u2019 Prize was established following the University\u2019s Golden Jubilee celebration in 2012, by the University\u2019s earliest alumni, the graduating class of 1965.\u202f This annual prize is donated to the Faculty of Education to be awarded for an original, authenticated published article on any aspect of education submitted by a current student.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prize includes a book, chosen by the winner to help support them in their career, and a cash award.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/750\/2025\/06\/CCCU-Jubilee-60-Service_JPeilow_249-resized.jpg\" alt=\"Image of CCCU founding class of students. \" class=\"wp-image-38934\" style=\"width:725px;height:auto\" title=\"Some of the members of the founding class of 1962-65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/750\/2025\/06\/CCCU-Jubilee-60-Service_JPeilow_249-resized.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/750\/2025\/06\/CCCU-Jubilee-60-Service_JPeilow_249-resized-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/750\/2025\/06\/CCCU-Jubilee-60-Service_JPeilow_249-resized-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pictured, some of the founding students from the class of 1962-65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lorna Daymond, one of the Founders and co-ordinator of the prize, said: \u201cWe wanted to give something back to the University and to recognise our contribution as founder students.\u202f We also wanted to thank the University for their generosity in awarding us Honorary Degrees during the Golden Jubilee year.\u201d\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that the winner of this years\u2019 Founders&#8217; Prize is Guo Sheng Xu a current PhD student. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352486,"featured_media":38990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-updates","category-announcements","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Celia Pearce","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/750\/2025\/06\/IMG_0464-cropped.jpg","postExcerpt":"We are delighted to announce that the winner of this years\u2019 Founders' Prize is Guo Sheng Xu a current PhD student. 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