Francesca Ebel, an undergraduate in the Department of Slavonic Studies (ab initio Russian and Ukrainian), has won the runner-up award for student multimedia journalist of the year at the Guardian Student Media Awards. 

The Guardian highlighted the short documentary Forgotten People, which was produced by Ebel and her colleagues Flora Murphy and Oleg Naumenko. Together they lead an independent reporting project focussing on contemporary Ukrainian and Russian affairs called The Nose.

In March 2015, Ebel and The Nose team travelled to Sloviansk and other government-controlled areas of east Ukraine to find out what was being done to support Ukrainians displaced by the war in Donbas. By interviewing local volunteers, representatives from Western NGOs and the refugees themselves, she cast light on an evolving humanitarian crisis largely overlooked in mainstream media reports.

Click here to view on YouTube.