Mariam Zaqout, a CDT-aligned student, won the Water @ Leeds Spring Award, an impressive achievement as this is open to several hundred researchers. She also won ‘Best Paper’ at the 2021 WaterAid Research Awards for the paper Sustainable sanitation jobs: prospects for enhancing the livelihoods of pit-emptiers in Bangladesh (2021), Third World Quarterly. The links to the two announcements for her awards are available on: https://washmatters.wateraid.org/blog/2021-research-awards-sanitation-workers-winners-and-runners-up and https://water.leeds.ac.uk/news/s-p-r-i-n-g-award-winners-june-2021/