Sarah Singer, a law PhD candidate at Queen Mary, University of London, was awarded best paper at the conference ‘Transformation and Reform: Structures and Mechanisms for Rights-Based Protections’ hosted by the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR) at University College Cork, Ireland on 26 April 2012. Sarah was chosen to present her paper ‘Exclusion from Refugee Status: asylum seekers and terrorism in the UK’ at the plenary session of the conference, and it will shortly be published by the CCJHR.