A student who reported to the European Parliament on the conditions at the Calais refugee camp has won a top Dundee University award.
Rachel Natanson was given the Wimberley Award, handed to the undergraduate student who has made the most distinguished contribution to university life.
She reported on how conditions at the Calais camp were affecting the mental health of the people living there.
She received the award on Friday when she also picked up a first class honours degree in social work.
Rachel, 38, from Kirremuir, was a founding member of the Dundee branch of the Social Work Action Network.
Rachel said: “I visited the refugee camp in Calais twice.
“I was so overwhelmed by what I saw there that I returned with another social work student to deliver a specially tailored aid package.
“We knew we didn’t have the power to change their lives substantially so we focused on things that had been neglected in other donations that I knew would at least help to make their day-to-day existence more bearable.”
Rachel was also presented with the Sir James Black Award given to the undergraduate making the most outstanding contribution to research and scholarship in their field.
This was for her investigation into the use of problem solving courts within criminal justice social work.
