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The work of two Keble Undergraduate Geographers was recognised by the Royal Geographical Society through their 2020 Research Group Dissertation Prizes . The prizes are awarded for outstanding dissertations from undergraduate and postgraduate students at higher education institutions both in the UK and overseas.

Eliza Norris (Geography 2017) was awarded the Political Geography Research Group undergraduate dissertation prize. Eliza, who completed her undergraduate degree in 2020, examined underground hospitals in Syria and Israel in her dissertation, titled ‘Rehabilitating the “artery of life”: survival, resilience and medical care in the underground hospital’.

More information about her award is available on the School of Geography website .

Jemima Richardson-Jones (Geography 2017) was Highly Commended by the Health and Wellbeing Research Group. Her dissertation investigated the value of musical listening, and was titled ‘The “magic” of music: relocation and the creation of “spaces of wellbeing in a residential care home’. Jemima was also a Keble Choral Scholar and JCR Female Welfare Officer.

More information about Jemima’s award is available on the School of Geography website .

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UCL Winners of National Undergraduate Dissertation Prizes

All undergraduate students in Geography will complete a dissertation in their final year.

Various academic societies and research groups award prizes for the best undergraduate dissertations in their field submitted by university geography and other departments from across the country. Success in these competitions is therefore a mark of the highest quality by national standards. UCL Geography prize winners from recent years   include:

• Mannon Davies-Lewis   Exploring the ‘peculiarity’ of the Welsh: paupers, punishment, and popular protest in rural west Wales during the 19th century.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Highly Commended
• Hollie Parry   Projections of thermally induced coral bleaching across Caribbean reefs, using a marine heatwave algorithm.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Joint Winner.
• Samantha (Cheuk Lam) Siu   How symbolic capital matters: international student mobilities from Hong Kong to the UK.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Population Geography (PopGRG), Joanna Stillwell Prize.  Joint Winner .
• Sally (Chenyuan) Wang  Assessing the impacts of climate change using hydrological modelling for the River Dee catchment, Northeast Scotland.  British Hydrological Society (BHS), Annual Student Award for the best undergraduate dissertation in hydrology.  Winner .
• Natalie (Yuqiao) Deng  A tephropalaeoecology study investigating volcanic eruptions and tephra depositions' impacts on a lacustrine ecosystem in Northeast China, using diatoms as environmental indicators.  Quaternary Research Association Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Samuel Street  Navigating the maelstrom: The conjunctural geographies of Nigerian online freelancers.  Development Geographies Research Group.  Winner .
• Finbar Aherne   Exploring infectious disease distribution in Greater London using quantitative spatial analysis of non-diagnostic proxy data . Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Geographies of Health and Wellbeing (GHWRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Joint Winner.
• Adwoa Amankona  You have to be excellent. You can't just be or just exist.' Exploring the cultural principles associated with Black Excellence and its placement on black students attending Golden Triangle universities.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Race, Culture and Equality Working Group (RACE), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. Winner .
• Adwoa Amankona   You have to be excellent. You can't just be or just exist.' Exploring the cultural principles associated with Black Excellence and its placement on black students attending Golden Triangle universities.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Race, Culture and Equality Working Group (RACE), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Joe Cappai   Tapping into tech: the influence of social media on dancers and the spaces they use to dance in London.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Jay Chang   A detailed assessment of the current and future spatial distribution of Loxodonta cyclotis in Central Africa: An application of ensemble species distribution model.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Joint Winner .
• Will Chantry   Built from the internet up': examining citizen engagement in Google's first smart city, Quayside Toronto.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Participatory Geographies Research Group (PYGYRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. b.
• Heather Goldring   Migration and material culture: the Guyanese living room.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Developing Areas Research Group (DARG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Juliette Masson   The sociocultural integration of British immigrants within rural communities of rural Poitou-Charentes, France.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Population Geography Research Group (PGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Hattie Powell-Cook   'Miles from home': a study of abortion migration from the Republic of Ireland. Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) , Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Highly Commended .
• Tang, Bing Yang   Exploring the workers’ journey for a better ride: A curiosity-led qualitative study on food delivery drivers experiences in Singapore.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Yusuf Khan-Cheema  Noise is subjective? Exploring residents' lived experiences of aircraft noise around London's Heathrow Airport  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)   Planning and Environment Research Group Dissertation Prize.  Winner.
• Bronwyn Butler  Bloody injustice: period poverty, power and shame in 21st century Britain . Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Third prize.
• Tallulah Gordon  Suffragettes in the City: Exploring gendered memory through analysis of two London exhibitions commemorating the British women’s suffrage centenary.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Runner up .
• Helena Robertson  Mapping elections: a quantitative analysis of cartographic visualisation techniques . British Cartographic Society's Ian Mumford Award.  Winner.
• Teki Tetteh-Wright  Revealing the variations in Eurasian otter ( Lutra lutra ) diet through dietary analysis in the Stour and Colne catchments, Essex . British Association of Nature Conservationists ECOS Student Article Competition 2019.  Winner.
• Nicola Ward  The crash of ash: A study into the extent of ash dieback in Norfolk and the associated potential changes in woodland composition.  British Association of Nature Conservationists ECOS Student Article Competition 2019.  Second prize.
• Fumica Azuma  Mangrove recolonization following aquaculture: Case study from Pulau Ubin, Singapore . Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Alfred Steers Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Miles Harrison  Empowering the poor? The effects of formalising informal settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania . Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Developing Areas Research Group (DARG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner.
• Charlotte Hudson  Impacts of climate change on river flows in Siberia’s Lena River Basin and its implications for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation . British Hydrological Society, Annual Student Award for the best undergraduate dissertation in hydrology.  Runner up.
• Jack Wharton  Reconstructing AMOC over the past 7000 years: was the Industrial Era weakening an unprecedented event?  Quaternary Research Association Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner.
• Holly Campbell   Moments of progress: An exploration of the interaction between female enterprise and patriarchal norms in Selçuk, Turkey . Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Wilson Chun Chan   Modelling the hydrological impacts of climate change on the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia.  British Hydrological Society, Annual Student Award for the best undergraduate dissertation in hydrology.  Runner up.
• Lilly Donnelly   Interpreting the revitalization of the Los Angeles River through the lens of urban ecological citizenship.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Anna Knowles Smith   Refugees and theatre: an exploration of the basis of self-representation.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Social & Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Carole Roberts  A multiproxy study investigating ecological response to acidification in Easedale Tarn, English Lake District, since the early 19th century . Quaternary Research Association Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner.
• Lucy Taylor  The male gaze of colonial cartography: a feminist analysis of maps of Africa from the Royal Geographical Society archive, 1851-­1891.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Historical Geography Research Group, Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner.
• Alicia Xin Yi Wong  Evaluation of void decks as sites of social (non) interactions, and the nature and impacts of these (non) interactions.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Urban Geography Research Group, Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner.
• Joseph Hussey  Assessing the Association between Industry of Employment and Divergent Geographies of Wealth in England, 1981- 2011 . Royal Geographical Society (with IBG ) Population Geography Research Group  (PopGRG), Joanna Stillwell Prize.  Winner . Society for Location Analysis.  Bronze Prize .
• Matita Afoakwa  Self, Status and Survival: The experience of return migration of professionals to Accra, Ghana.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG),  Developing Areas Research Group , Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner.
• Ben Ayre  Constructing an Arctic Laboratory: Oil Spill Simulations at the Hydrocarbon Frontier . Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Political Geography Group Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Daphne Lee  Ageing-environment relationships: public neighbourhood spaces in Singapore as a site of phenomenological construction.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)  Developing Areas Research Group  (DARG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner ;  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)  Urban Geography Research Group  (UGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Katharine Sherratt  Exploring the impact of rural financial insecurity on access to sanitation: a multi-dimensional approach, in Karnataka, India . Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)  Rural Geography Research Group  (RGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Joint second .
• James Brennan :  Validation of a spectrally invariant model of canopy radiative transfer with MODIS data and its application to canopy dynamics in Amazon forests.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Joint second.
• Joon Ting Ho :  Modeling the hydrological impacts of climate change on the Tocantins-Araguaia river basin . Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Climate Change Research Group (CCRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner ; and British Hydrological Society, Annual Student Award for the best undergraduate dissertation in hydrology.  Runner up .
• Hannah Mallinson :  Glacial isostatic readjustment of the British Isles: a study of coastal response in Western Scotland and Southern Wales.  The British Society for Geomorphology (BSG) - Marjorie Sweeting Dissertation Prize.  Winner .
• Emma Colven:  A neoliberal political agenda? The debate surrounding outdoor service provision for the homeless in Westminster.  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Urban Geography Research Group, Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Winner.
• Amanda Green :  Quantifying uncertainty in projections of river discharge in the Mekong River Basin under climate change.  British Hydrological Society, Annual Student Award for the best undergraduate dissertation in hydrology.  Winner .
• Christopher Checkley:   An evaluation of wave conditions and coastal features around the Isles of Scilly utilising: wave refraction modelling and coastal system mapping.  British Society for Geomorphology, Marjorie Sweeting Dissertation Prize.  Winner
• Katherine Keogan :  Affordable housing and fragile communities: lessons from a proposed development in an English coastal village . RGS-IBG Rural Geography Research Group Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Second Prize .
• Katariina Makela:  Modern urban women: a study of Signe Brander's photography in early 20th-century Helsinki.  RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group undergraduate dissertation prize.  Winner
• Ravi Soni:   Urban regeneration and the effect on small established businesses: the case of Eastside.  RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group Undergraduate Dissertation prize.   Winner
• Catherine van de Dries:  The Visual Construction of Femininity and Surveillance of the Female Body in Britain During World War Two . RGS-IBG Women in Geography Study Group Undergraduate Dissertation Prize,  First prize .

Kallum Dhillon :  Help or hindrance? The effects of philanthropic social housing near St Pancras/King's Cross on the Victorian working classes.  RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group undergraduate dissertation prize.   Joint winner

• Richard Mallett:  ”It's like one leg is in the village, one leg is here”: transition, connection and (uncertain?) aspirations among urban internally displaced people in Kampala, Uganda . RGS-IBG Developing Areas Group.  Winner
• Teo Tsu-Lyn:   The future of the past: heritage conservation and tourism promotion in Singapore's Chinatown.  Geography of Tourism and Leisure Research Group.  Winner
• Joe Penny:   Skate and Destroy?  RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group.  Winner
• Jeffrey Wilkinson:   Modelling the hydrological impacts of climate change on the Mekong River , British Hydrological Society Student Award.  Runner up.
• Jane Chia Pei En :  Intersections of identity: young Malay Muslim women in Singapore.  RGS-IBG Women and Geography Study Group.  Second Prize
• Cathy Lucas:  Risk society or social risk? NGO constructions of chemical threats’.  RGS-IBG Women and Geography Study Group.  Winner
• Elizabeth Gardner:   Factors influencing the ecology of Petrorhagia nanteuilii: A case study from the shingle habitat of Pagham harbour, West Sussex.  RGS-IBG Biogeography Research Group.  Winner
• Tom Rutherford:   Questioning the country childhood idyll: parenting and children’s safety in three Kentish villages.  RGS-IBG Children, Youth and Famlies Working Group.  Runner-up
• Kinnari Chhaya:  The second generation and transnationalism: a study of second generation Gujaratis in London.  RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group.   2 nd  prize
• Emily Haynes:   The development of a coastal vulnerability index for north Norfolk.  Landscape Research Group Prize for original academic research.  Highly commended
• Ruth Judge:   Exploring Cambodian national identity: AngKor and Apsaras as ‘Lieux de Memoire . Landscape Research Group.  Winner
• Emilia Bobinski:  If you picked the heart out of anything it would die’. The effects of the common fisheries policy on fishing identity and community of the island of Whalsay, Shetland.  RGS-IBG Rural Geography Research Group . Joint Third place
• Sacha Clark:  Modelling internal migration in the UK – can the gravity model help explain ‘white flight’ by comparing white and non-white internal migration in the UK.  RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group.  Highly Commended
• Siobhan   Luikham:  Primary education in Ghana : RGS-IBG Developing Areas Research Group.   Winner
• Rebekah   Rochester :  Modelling hydrological impacts of climate change on the Lena River, Siberia.  British Hydrological Society Student Award.  Winner.  RGS-IBG Quantitative Methods Research Group  Winner
• Charlie Malyon:   Landscapes of the mind: the influence of the human life cycle on landscape preferences.  Landscape Research Group.  Highly commended
• Samantha Jones:   Land management at How Hill Fen, Norfolk since 1997 and its impact on vegetation succession over time.  Landscape Research Group.  Highly commended
• Laura Pitcher:   It’s bringing it all back: exploring (re)presentation and epiphany in Gap Year material cultur.  RGS-IBG Alfred Steers’ Dissertation Prize.  Winner
• Virginia Panizzo:   Recent environmental change in Rwenzori Mountains . Quaternary Research Association/RGS Dissertation Prize.  Winner
• Lucinda Mileham:   An investigation into the rate, causes and extent of glacial retreat on the Speke and Elena Glaciers on the Rwenzori mountains, Western Uganda.’  British Hydrological Society Student Award.   Winner
• Vikki McNair:  E lite female rowers’ negotiation of embodied identity in a gendered world.  RGS-IBG Women and Geography Study Group.  Joint Runner up
• Alistair Gates:   Assessing the generality of J.L Stein’s findings for Hampstead: examining the social reception and diffusion of the telephone in Camden Town, 1890-1911.  RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group & Cambridge University Press Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  Highly commended.
• Cheryl Anne Lim Su Ying:   An investigation into the ecological impacts of trampling on tropical plants in Singapore and the implications for future park managemen.’  RGS-IBG Biogeography Research Group .  Winner
• Jason Mitchell:   “When gays are spatially scattered they’re invisible” The formation and expression of gay male identities in non-urban communities.  RGS-IBG Rural Geography Research Group .  Winner
• Ian Humphrey:   A forest for the community? An assessment of Thames Chase Community Forest.  Landscape Research Group.   Runner up
• Ho J.T ., Thompson J.R. & Brierley C. (2015) Projections of hydrology in the Tocantins-Araguaia Basin, Brazil: uncertainty assessment using the CMIP5 ensemble,  Hydrological Sciences Journal , 61, 551-567.DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2015.1057513
• Hudson, C.E . and Thompson, JR. (2019 - in press) Hydrological modelling of climate change impacts on river flows in Siberia's Lena River Basin and implications for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.  Hydrology Research . doi: 10.2166/nh.2019.151
• Irvine, G.,  Pauli, N., Varea, R. & Boruff, B. (2020) Chapter 4. A Participatory Approach to Understanding the Impact of Multiple Natural Hazards in Communities along the Ba River, Fiji. In A. Neef & N. Pauli (Eds.),  Climate-induced disasters in the Asia-Pacific region: Response, recovery, adaptation  (pp. 57–86). Bingley: Emerald Publishing.
• Sayer, C.D., Davidson, T.A., Rawcliffe, R., Langdon, P., Leavitt, P.,  Cockerton, G.  & Rose, N., Croft, T. (2016) Consequences of fish kills for long-term trophic structure in shallow lakes: Implications for theory and restoration.  Ecosystems,  19 ,  1289-1309. doi:10.1007/s10021-016-0005-z
• Studhome J ., Hodges K.I. & Brierley C.M. (2015) Objective determination of the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere.  Tellus A ,  67 , 24474,  http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v67.24474
• Tetteh-Wright, T.  (2019)   What are our otters eating?   ECOS  40(4).   British Association of Nature Conservationists ECOS Student Article Competition 2019. Undergraduate Winner.
• Thompson, J.R.,  Crawley, A ., Kingston, D.G. (2016). GCM-related uncertainty for river flows and inundation under climate change: The Inner Niger Delta.  Hydrological Sciences Journal  61, 2325-2347.
• Thompson, J.R.,  Green, A.J ., Kingston, D.G., Gosling, S.N (2013). Assessment of uncertainty in river flow projections for the Mekong River using multiple GCMs and hydrological models.  Journal of Hydrology  486, 1-30.
• Vaughan R ., Turner S.D., Rose N.L. (2017) Microplastics in the sediments of a UK urban lake.  Environmental Pollution,   229 , 10-18. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.05.057
• Ward, N . (2019) The crash of ash  ECOS  40(4). British Association of Nature Conservationists ECOS Student Article Competition 2019 . Undergraduate Runner up.

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Interview with Katy Simms: Winner of the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group dissertation prize

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Katy Simms received the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group 2020 award for her undergraduate dissertation. Recently, the Royal Geographical Society featured an interview with Katy about her award winning research.

Each year, the Society’s Research Groups recognise outstanding work from undergraduate and postgraduate students at higher education institutions both in the UK and overseas.

The Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group award an annual prize to the best undergraduate dissertation on a theme related to sexualities and/or queer research in human geography. Katy Simms, from Durham University, was the recipient of the 2020 prize with her dissertation No-one wants to meet the love of their life on Tinder, which looks at the effects of mobile dating apps on love, intimacy and identity negotiations for bisexual individuals. As part of LGBT+ History Month, we spoke to Katy to ask her about her prize-winning dissertation.

Read the full story on the Royal Geographical Society website .

Previous Dissertation Prize Winners

Below you can find the winners of our Dissertation Prize awards since 2010, and links to their respective dissertations. Please use these research projects as examples of good practice when writing up a dissertation or other academic article.

The winner receives £100 for the best Undergraduate dissertation while the runner-up and winner both receive a year’s personal subscription to the journal Social and Cultural Geography, published by Taylor & Francis.

Winner: Sara Flower, University of Manchester

Mind the Gap: A more than representational analysis of lineside green space in Hadley Wood: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:a02920bd-44ef-3e02-a525-577005d741d4

Runner-up: Steven Farquhar, Queens University Belfast

The Future of Biodiversity Conservation: Synthesising Anarchism and More-Than-Human Theory in the Edgelands of Belfast

Winner: Roisín Gilloch Boyle, University of Edinburgh

Memories, Absences and Affects: Art and Geography in Dialogue with Narbi Price’s Ashington Paintings

Runner-up: Lukas Lyko, University of Oxford

“I don’t have the luxury of being able to do nothing”: Exploring Temporalities and Navigations of Everyday Mobility Through the Experiences of People with Multiple Sclerosis

Winner: Eleanor Pendle, Oxford University

The Poblenou Superblock: Rights, Responsibilities and Exclusions

Runner Up: Bethan Jones, University of Edinburgh

Walking Utopia: How is Harlow New Town remembered through public sculpture walks? A case for transcorporeal geographies of memory

Winner: Charles Couve, University of Manchester

More-than-human Manchester: Recombinance, Auras, and Dialectics in the Edges of Modernity

Runner Up: William Silver, Durham University

Gordon Matta-Clark’s slices through space: artwork towards a critical understanding of the spatial

Winner: Zainab Ravat, Queen Mary University of London

Photojournalism: Explorations into the Geographical Witness, Activist and Traveller

Runner Up: Kieran Green, University of Plymouth

In the Balance: Unsettled Space and Sofa-surfing

Winner:  Anna Knowles-Smith, University College London

Refugees and theatre: an exploration of the basis of self-representation

Runner Up:  Thomas Paulsen, University of Exeter

In Search of Danish Atmospheres

Winner: Imogen Fox, University of Brighton

Meltdowns in the mud: A spatial, emotional and relational approach to the experience of ‘care’ in the micro-spatialities of Glastonbury Festival

Runner-up: Megan O’Kane, Queens University Belfast

Geographies of Suicide and the Representation of Self-Sacrifice in Japanese Popular Culture and Media

Winner: Emma-Mai Eshelby, University of Leicester

Gown and town: the unfolding presence of studentification in Clarendon Park, Leicester

Runner-up: Grace Burchell, University of Nottingham

Breeding Frankenstein’s Bulldog: reimagining the Pedigree in Nineteenth Century England

Runner-up: Amelia Davy, Oxford University

Temporal worldings: an exploration of how time was implicated in the experiences of American Soldiers during the Vietnam War

We decided to have two runners-up this year, due to the high standard of entries.

Winner: Jennifer Durrant, University of Cambridge

Fallen on hard times: Re-examining the homeless hostel

Runner-up: Helen Spooner, University of Oxford

A kinaesthetic spirituality: An autophenomenographic account of running 250km of the Camino Portugués

Winner: Helen Trimm, University of Nottingham

Reconstructing home as a site of care: an exploration into the changing meaning of home for elderly women

Runner-up: Simon Cook, University of Plymouth 

Jography: Exploring the Mobilities of Road-Running

Winner: Chris Goodman, University of Oxford 

Walking with Lions: reconfiguring ‘wild(er)ness’, ‘domestication’ and ‘captivity’ through ALERT’s lion rewilding project

Runner up: Nicholas Speechley, Loughborough University

‘Keeping them together’, University Accommodation and the ‘International’ Student: A Case Study of Loughborough University, UK  

Winner: Jessica Potts, Durham University

“We are not here, we are not there”: Young Refugees’ and Asylum Seeker’s Negotiations of Identity and Belonging

Runner up: Mary McLaren, University of Exeter 

Constructing distant geographies of care: the example of Fairtrade in Horsham

Winner: Kaleigh Jones, University of Oxford,

Embodying Mobile Cultures: a case study of Capoeira

Runner up: Emma Bonny, University of Nottingham

The landscape and culture of allotments: a study in Hornchurch, Essex

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Grigori Perelman Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life & Achievements of Russian Mathematician

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Birthday: June 13 , 1966 ( Gemini )

Born In: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Also Known As: Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman

Age: 58 Years , 58 Year Old Males

father: Yakov Perelman

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Born: Ryazan - 26 September 1849 Died: Leningrad - 27 February 1936

Ivan Pavlov was the first Russian Nobel laureate, winning the Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904. His scientific research on the digestive system and other involuntary reflex actions brought him international fame and was hugely influential not only in physiology, but also in the nascent field of comparative psychology, and even in popular culture - Pavlov's experiments with conditional reflexes in dogs are as iconic as Newton's apple or Archimedes' bath.

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born in 1849 in Ryazan in central Russia. He was the oldest of eleven children, and his father was a village priest. Pavlov suffered a serious fall at the age of seven that prevented him from starting formal schooling for several years, but he went on to the local seminary and was destined to follow his father into the priesthood. In 1870, however, he had a change of heart and decided to enter the Imperial University in St. Petersburg to study the natural sciences. In his fourth year, his first major research project, on the physiology of the nerves of the pancreas, won a major prize, and the following year he completed his course, becoming a Candidate of Natural Sciences.

For the next decade, Pavlov studied and worked at a variety of St. Petersburg institutions, including the Academy of Medical Surgery, the Veterinary Institute and the Medical Military Academy. He was also employed at the Physiological Laboratory of the renowned clinician Sergey Botkin. His research at the time concentrated on the trophic function of the nervous system and the regulation of reflexes in the circulatory organs.

After completing his doctorate in 1883, Pavlov went for two years to Germany to study with Carl Ludwig in Leipzig. Here he began his experiments on the digestive systems of dogs. On returning to St. Petersburg, he spent several years looking for a permanent university post, before eventually being appointed Professor of Pharmacology at the Military Medical Academy. The following year he was invited to organize and run the Department of Physiology at the Institute of Experimental Medicine. He would spend 45 years in the position, while continuing to teach at the Military Medical Academy (he transferred to the chair of physiology in 1895). Pavlov helped to make the Institute of Experimental Medicine one of the world's leading centres of physiological research, and it was here that he performed his renowned experiments on the salivary functions of dogs.

He published The Work of the Digestive Glands in 1897, and in 1901 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for the first time. It took four attempts before he was eventually given the award in 1904. Meanwhile he continued his investigations into the gastric functions of dogs and children, and went on to research involuntary reflex reactions to stress and pain, developing the concept of transmarginal inhibition to describe the way the body shuts down when exposed to overwhelming pain and stress. Pavlov's work was particularly influential on the American psychologist John B. Watson, who established the school of behaviorism, and also found an ardent support in the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, who saw Pavlov's work as fundamental to understanding the philosophy of mind.

Pavlov remained in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, and was highly valued by the new government. But although he was well provided for by the state and allowed to continue his research freely, he was a strident critic of the new regime, publicly protesting Stalin's increasingly authoritarian policies, and actively defending those of his acquaintance who were caught up in the state's persecution.

Pavlov married Seraphima Vasilievna Karchevskaya in 1881, and the couple had four children that survived to adulthood. Pavlov died of double pneumonia at the age of 86 in 1936. True to his lifelong spirit of inquiry, he asked one of his students to record all the circumstances of his death to establish evidence of the subjective experience of dying.

The street on Aptekarskiy Island where the Institute of Experimental Medicine stands was renamed Ulitsa Akademika Pavlova (Academic Pavlov's Street), and in the courtyard of the Institute there is sculpture of one of Pavlov's dogs commemorating his experiments. Pavlov's name was also given to the Academy of Sciences Institute of Physiology, the building of which on Vasilievskiy Island also houses the I. P. Pavlov Memorial Museum Apartment .

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Participatory Geographies Research Group (PyGyRG)

The RGS-IBG Participatory Geographies Research Group (PyGyRG) is pleased to offer two annual prizes of £100 for undergraduate dissertations that examine social justice themes and/or involve a participatory methodology. As there was no 2023 prize due to UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott two prizes will be offered this year, one for 2022-23 and one for 2023-24.

Reflective of the scale and type of research carried out at undergraduate level, we are eager to encourage and reward both excellent scholarship and innovation which includes any of the following:

• Employs a participatory methodology.
• Engages with participatory research literature.
• Works with people, communities, or non-profit groups.
• Explores social justice, community activist, social enterprises, or NGOs/CSOs.
• Addresses issues of exclusion and marginalisation.
• Involves minority or vulnerable groups.
• Incorporates tangible outcomes for community groups/NGOs.

Nominated dissertations should:

• Be a strong theoretical and/or empirical piece of work.
• Be submitted for formal assessment for the past 24 months to a UK Higher Education Institution for a BA/BSc level geography degree programme.
• Include a full set of references and images (as relevant).
• Be written in English.

To nominate a student, please:

• Submit their dissertation as a single pdf file with a post-university email and contact address for the student.
• Provide a statement (minimum a short paragraph – maximum one A4-page) that summarises in which respects the dissertation engages with a social justice theme and/or involves a participatory methodology.

We are keen to contact students directly so that we can follow up winners and ask them to provide us with blog entries and short summaries for our website, hence asking for a post-September email address for the student. Please let nominees know that they have been nominated.

Please send submissions to PyGyRG Dissertation Co-Ordinator Jeremy Auerbach at [email protected]

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