Undergraduate Dissertations Awards 2007
Below is a list of the Awards given by RGS-IBG Research Groups for undergraduate dissertations
in Geography along with the Alfred Steers Prize given by the Society. This list will be updated
with any additional awards that we become aware of. Please contact us if you have an Award that
would be appropriate to include.
Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG)
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
Every year the Historical Geography Research Group in association with Cambridge University
Press offers a prize of £50 to the best undergraduate dissertation based on original research and
showing conceptual sophistication in any area of historical geography. The successful prize
winner will also receive three books of their choice from the Cambridge Studies in Historical
Geography book series and be invited to present their work at the annual HGRG Practicing
Historical Geography Conference in November.
Closing date: 6 July 2007
Further details please contact Catherine Brace (cbrace@exeter.ac.uk)
Climate Change Research Group (CCRG)
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
This prize is for innovative and high quality thesis research in human or physical geography. One
prize will be awarded annually valued at £100.
Only one thesis may be submitted from any one department.
Together with the thesis all submissions must include a statement from the Department including
if the work was presented in any other forum, has been submitted for any form of publication, the
awarded mark, position in the dissertation marks table and reflecting comments made by the
examiners.
All theses should be submitted to Mark Pelling, Department of Geography, King’s College
London, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS or electronically to mark.pelling@kcl.ac.uk.
Closing date: 13 July 2007
The winner will be informed by 1 September 2007
Participatory Geographies Working Group (PyGyWG)
Participatory Geographies Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
New for this year, and to be continued on an annual basis, the Participatory Geographies
Working Group will offer a prize of £50 plus £25 worth of book tokens and a complimentary
subscription to the journal of Children’s Geographies to the best undergraduate dissertation
based on original research and showing conceptual sophistication in any area of participatory
approaches and methods. The runner-up will be awarded a prize of £25 and a complimentary
subscription to the journal Children's Geographies.
Closing date: 13 July 2007
Further details please contact Dr Michael Leyshon (mleyshon@exeter.ac.uk)
Undergraduate Dissertations Awards 2007
Geographies Of Children, Youth and Families Working Group (GCYFWG)
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2007
For the best dissertation on any issue relating to: The geographies of children, youth and families.
The dissertations should usually be 10,000 words or more and should be submitted, along with a
copy of the appropriate departmental dissertation regulations to:
Dr Lorraine van Blerk
Department of Geography
School of Human and Environmental Sciences
The University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading, RG6 6AH
(l.c.vanblerk@reading.ac.uk)
Please also include a (post-September) contact address for the student.
A department may not submit more than one entry.
Closing date: 13 July 2007
Further details please contact Dr Lorraine van Blerk (l.c.vanblerk@reading.ac.uk)
Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG)
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2007
Call for excellent urban geography undergraduate dissertations!
This prestigious annual award (with cash prize) is open to any currently-registered undergraduate
student in a UK Department of Geography, Earth Sciences or Environmental Sciences and is
given to the dissertation which, in the view of the judges, most clearly exhibits the originality of
thought, quality of research and excellence in presentation for which urban geographers are
renowned. No substantive area of urban geography is excluded from consideration, and we
welcome submissions which address any aspect of the social, economic or political life of cities.
Additionally, dissertations may be based on secondary (archival) or primary data, addressing
urban issues via a contemporary or historical focus.
It is customary for Dissertation Tutors or Heads of Departments to nominate dissertations for this
prize. Please send an (unmarked) copy of any dissertation you would wish to be considered to:
Dr. Mustafa Dikeç
Department of Geography
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey
TW20 0EX
UK
Closing date: 13th July 2007
Further details please contact Dr. Mustafa Dikeç (m.dikec@rhul.ac.uk)
Women And Geography Study Group (WGSG)
Annual Undergraduate Dissertation Prize: For the best dissertation on any issue relating to
geography and gender
The dissertations should usually be 10,000 words or more and should be submitted, along with a
copy of the appropriate departmental dissertation regulations to either
Undergraduate Dissertations Awards 2007
1. Dr Julie MacLeavy (julie.macleavy@bristol.ac.uk)
School of Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol
Bristol
BS8 1SS
2. Dr Nichola Wood (N.X.Wood@leeds.ac.uk)
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
Please also include a (post-September) contact address for the student. A department may not
submit more than one entry.
Closing date: 13 July 2007
Further details please contact either Dr Julie MacLeavy (julie.macleavy@bristol.ac.uk) or Dr
Nichola Wood (N.X.Wood@leeds.ac.uk)
Geography of Health Research Group (GHRG)
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize, 2007
The GHRG is pleased to announce that it will be offering an undergraduate dissertation prize of
£100 for 2007.
The prize is open to any currently-registered undergraduate students in UK geography
departments and will be awarded to the dissertation which exhibits the best overall contribution to
any issue relating to health geography.
The dissertations should usually be of First class standard and be submitted, along with
appropriate dissertation regulations and a supporting letter from Heads of Department or other
nominated representative, to:
Dr Tim Brown
Department of Geography
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
t.brown@lboro.ac.uk
A department should not submit more than one entry.
Closing date: 13 July 2007
Developing Areas Research Group Undergraduate dissertation prize
(DARG)
The Developing Areas Research Group in conjunction with Earthscan offers an annual prize for
the most promising dissertation concerning 'The Geography of Developing Areas'. The author of
the winning dissertation receives £100 worth of Earthscan books of their choice, and 25%
discount on any further Earthscan books ordered.
The prize is open to any student taking a first degree in Geography. Students taking joint degrees
are eligible to enter for the prize, provided that at least half their course is in Geography. It is
suggested that no Department of Geography submits more than one dissertation for this prize.
Dissertations will be evaluated by three members of the DARG Committee.
Dissertations, along with a copy of the instructions given to students, should be sent to the DARG
Undergraduate Prize Committee at the following address:
Undergraduate Dissertations Awards 2007
Dr Sara Parker
DARG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize Co-ordinator
Department of Geography
School of Social Science
Liverpool John Moores University
Clarence Street Building
Liverpool L3 5UG
Closing date: 14 July 2007
Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG)
Joanna Stillwell Prize for Population Geography Dissertations
The Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) of the RGS-IBG has set up three prizes
(£100 for 1st; £50 for 2nd; £25 for 3rd) to be awarded for the best undergraduate dissertations of
2007 in the broad field of Population Geography. Would you or your colleagues like to nominate
a dissertation from your institution? If so, please send in a copy of the dissertations by the end of
July this year (2007). Please note that for practical purposes we can accept no more than two
dissertations from any institution and to be eligible that institution has to be in the UK.
The prize is named in memory of the daughter of Professor John Stillwell of the University of
Leeds. Joanna was a geography graduate of the University of Sheffield.
Closing date: end of July 2007
Further details please contact Daniel Vickers (d.vickers@sheffield.ac.uk)
Dr Daniel Vickers
PopGRG Awards Officer
Department of Geography
The University of Sheffield
SHEFFIELD
S10 2TN
Rural Geography Research Group Undergraduate Dissertation Prize, 2007
(RGRG)
The prize is available to students who have completed an undergraduate degree and produced a
dissertation in a subject area related to rural geography. Three prizes are available. The prize
money is as follows: first prize: £25; second prize: £20; and third prize: £15.
Closing date 31 July 2007
Quaternary Research Association Prize (QRA)
The Quaternary Research Association, in association with the RGS-IBG, recognises the
achievements of undergraduates in Quaternary science by awarding a dissertation prize (£100)
for a thesis demonstrating flair and originality. This prize is open to any undergraduate;
membership of the QRA or RGS-IBG is not a requirement for entry.
Entries are limited to one per department but may be on any Quaternary theme. The winner will
be announced at the 2008 QRA Annual General Meeting and the abstract of their dissertation
published in the June 2008 issue of Quaternary Newsletter.
Entries should be sent to:
Head of Research and Higher Education
QRA Prize
Undergraduate Dissertations Awards 2007
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
1 Kensington Gore
London SW7 2AR
Closing date: 31 August 2007
Further details please contact RHED (rhed@rgs.org)
Alfred Steers Dissertation Prize
Thanks to a legacy from the late Alfred Steers, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) is able
to award £100 as prize money for the annual Geography Dissertation Prize, with the possibility of
a further prize for a runner-up.
The award is normally made at the Annual General Meeting of the RGS-IBG in early June of the
subsequent year.
Heads of Departments of Geography may submit one dissertation by any undergraduate
undertaking a first degree in geography.
Entries should be sent to:
Head of Research and Higher Education
Alfred Steers Dissertation Prize
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
1 Kensington Gore
London SW7 2AR
Closing date: 1 October 2007
Further details please contact RHED (rhed@rgs.org)
Rural Geography Research Group Masters Dissertation Prize, 2007 (RGRG)
This prize is available to students who have completed a taught Masters degree and produced a
dissertation in a subject area related to rural geography in the year 2006-2007. The award is £50.
Closing date 31 January 2008