On Saturday 23rd April, the Law School's Widening Participation team hosted the prize giving event of the inaugural 'Writing Wrongs' essay competition. Since November, we have been working with 25 pupils from non-traditional backgrounds from eight schools in Coventry and Warwickshire through a series of Saturday workshops in order to improve their research skills and write a 2,500 word essay on the theme of social justice.

The winning essay was written by Gurpreet Dhaliwal from Campion School, Leamington Spa, who wrote an essay entitled ‘Human Trafficking, an underworld crime’. Gurpreet will see her essay published in the Lacuna online magazine and have a paid summer internship with the publication. The runners up were Grace Knowles(Tile Hill Wood School) and Claudi Geraghty (Campion School).

The team who worked on the project are Anil Awesti, Chris Davis, James Harrison, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, Alice Panepinto, Ali Struthers and Andrew Williams.