Matthew Barton is the Global Winner in the History category of the Undergraduate Awards, an international competition celebrating academic excellence for undergraduate students.The Undergraduate Awards Global Winners represent the top paper in each of the 25 categories in the competition. In 2018, they received almost 5,000 papers.

Matthew has won this prize for the essay he wrote last year in the HIST3007 course, Making History. The title of the essay is: “Pattern of the National Type: Australians, the Beach, and the Rise of the Lifesaver in the Interwar Period”.

More info at https://www.undergraduateawards.com/ua-global-winners-2018/

Matthew was flown to Dublin to collect his award at the Global Undergraduate Summit which took place from the 12th - 14th of November 2018 in Croke Park Stadium, Dublin.

Please join us in offering congratulations to Matthew on this well-deserved success, as well as to his Course Convenor and tutor, Dr Martin Thomas.