Catrin Prys Jones Prize

In July 2009 the Department and the University were delighted to establish a prize in memory of Dr Catrin Prys Jones a former employee in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies. The prize, established through the generosity of Catrin's family, has been awarded in 2011 to Nathan Ifans who will graduate with a First Class BA Honours degree in Film and Television Studies through the medium of Welsh. 

 

 

Event to remember Catrin, July 2009

 

 

 

Pictured (L-R): Elen Pickavance (Catrin's sister); Catrin Hughes (University Registrar); Valmai Jones (Catrin's Mother); Ffion Haf Jones (winner of the prize); Elan Closs Stephens (Catrin's supervisor); John Bryn Jones (Catrin's Father), Glen Creeber (Catrin's partner).

 

 

 

 

 

Pictured (L-R): Gwyneth Burrell (Catrin's Aunt); Glen Creeber (Catrin's partner); Elen Pickavance (Catrin's Sister); Valmai Jones (Catrin's Mother); Ffion Haf Jones (winner of the prize); John Bryn Jones (Catrin's Father).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2006, Professor Elan Closs Stephens from the Department wrote the following tribute to Catrin:

I was asked, on behalf of co-workers and students, to mark the death of our fellow worker, Catrin Prys Jones. We were shocked and very much saddened by her premature death at only thirty years of age. I myself was particularly saddened as she was my student while she studied towards her PhD during her early years in the Department.

Initially I got to know Catrin as an exceptionally able undergraduate student, who always challenged and who was stubborn enough to get to grips with smug ideas. She was also funny, witty, very beautiful, loyal to her friends and co-workers and incredibly faithful to Liverpool Football Club. There wasn’t any doubt in the world regarding her First Class Honours degree, and she had the ability to communicate and critically challenge on a very high level in both languages used in the Department.

The students in the Department will know her through her work with Welsh-medium students on European Theatre and on dissecting productions. She was also a Lecture in the field of Television Drama. In this field, where her profile in the UK was growing within the media community, she completed her PhD on Dennis Potter’s work, she contributed to the volumes Fifty Key Television Programmes and Tele-Vision and Tele-Visual which were published by the BFI, and which were edited by her partner, Glen Creeber, and used frequently by our undergraduates and in Media Departments in universities across the United Kingdom. She also contributed to the proposed textbook for Welsh-medium students which will now be published posthumously.

Catrin was a perfectionist. Her care for the quality of her lectures and seminars was great. During the last few years she couldn’t reach her own high standards because of the complication of her illness, and she herself suffered more than anyone else because of this.

We sympathize greatly with her parents, John and Valmai, her sister, Elen, and her husband Rowan, and especially with our co-worker, Glen Creeber, Catrin’s partner.

Elan Closs Stephens