Hannah Wilkinson, Varsity's former Comment and News and Investigations Editor, has been nominated for a Guardian Student Media award.

Alongside student journalists from Oxford, Sheffield, Sussex and York, she is nominated for the Student Reporter of the Year award for her work last year on sexual assault in Cambridge. Wilkinson wrote and pursued the joint investigation with the Women's Campaign which revealed that 88 per cent of sexual assaults against students go unreported.

She had previously brought to light the haphazard and frequently inadequate college policies against sexual harassment. Since the Varsity investigation, many colleges have changed their policies and over half have introduced sexual consent workshops in partnership with the Women's Campaign. 

Wilkinson said: "I'm really shocked and honoured to be shortlisted. Really Alice Udale-Smith, Martha Elwell, Emily Chan, Amy Hawkins, Michael Curtis and loads of really important people deserve just as much credit."

The Guardian Student Media Awards have been run since 1978. In 2009, Varsity won six awards and was nominated for a further two; in the 1950s, the paper was barred for several years from the NUS awards on the grounds that it was too professional, and that other papers should be given a chance to win.

This year's ceremony will take place in London, on 27th November. There were over 700 entrants in nine categories, and the contest will be judged by senior figures in the industry including Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, Financial Times deputy editor John Thornhill and Buzzfeed UK managing editor Cate Sevilla.