The Security Institute

Following the great success of the inaugural 2009 Wilf Knight Award which culminated in the winner Danie Adendorff receiving his cash prize at the prestigious Security Excellence Awards held in London, the Security Institute is pleased to once again showcase student security talent by launching the Wilf Knight Award competition for 2010.

Why does the Institute have this Award?

There are three reasons:

1. To remember Security Institute Fellow Wilf Knight, who was a security professional through and through, having had a distinguished police career, a commitment to academic achievement and a highly successful and respected security consultancy.
2. To encourage individuals developing their professional security career
3. To identify a piece of work which could be useful to the security community

The Institute invites universities and other degree training providers to nominate either a student project, report or dissertation which has featured as course work, and which shows particular distinction and/or innovation and which makes a valuable contribution to the field of security management or practice.

What are the Judges looking for?

This competition is about excellence and innovation in security - it could be a management subject or methodology, it could be research and recommendations, a work-place based assignment - put simply, it is something new and fresh that will be of benefit to the security community in the field of security management or practice.

The criteria which are similar to the 2009 competition are:

• The nominated work must be the author's own and be supported by the university or training provider.
• Authors need not be members of the Security Institute.
• Only one entry for each university or provider may be submitted.
• The minimum level of study should be 1^st degree.

The successful student will be awarded a cash prize of £500 and a winner's certificate and will be invited to the Security Excellence Awards hosted by UBM to be held at the Hilton Park Hotel in London on 21^st October 2010 as the Institute's dinner guest. The winner will be announced at the Awards ceremony hosted by UBM live, giving excellent exposure to the student's talent and the supporting University.

We will be fortunate to once again have Patricia Knight (a former SyI director and Wilf's widow) as well as Mike Bluestone (the current Institute Chairman) join the judging panel for this competition, together with Brian Sims, editor of SMT online. All nominations should be submitted in electronic copy version only to the judging panel at info@security-institute.org by 11th September with finalists being selected by 1st October 2010.