A report on multi-cultural Britain has scooped a Leeds University student a prestigious journalism prize.

Shumon Rahman, who is on the Trinity & All Saints postgraduate journalism course, is the joint winner of this year’s Felix Dearden Memorial Prize.

His success makes him the third postgraduate student from the centre to win a national prize in the past six months.

Felix Dearden was a promising Reuters journalist who died in the 1987 King’s Cross fire.

She is remembered through the Felix Dearden Memorial Prize, which aims to encourage journalism trainees from ethnic minority communities in this country.

The National Union of Journalists will present the prize in January.

The award celebrates quality journalism which contributes towards, and gives a fair balanced picture of, anti-racism and multi-culturalism in Britain and Ireland and raises awareness of the role of the media after the Lawrence events.

Entrants can submit feature articles or substantial news story, whether written, or recorded on audio or video tape, or in the form of a photographic feature, on a subject bearing upon either British or Irish journalism and black people or race relations in Britain or Ireland.

Shumon submitted a radio package covering Muslim opinion in Bradford one year on from the events of September 11.

He said: “I concentrated on their political stories one year on rather than their political views.”