果冻影院

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. 果冻影院 Geography prize winners from recent years听include:

2022

• Mannon Davies-Lewis听Exploring the 鈥榩eculiarity鈥� of the Welsh: paupers, punishment, and popular protest in rural west Wales during the 19th century.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Highly Commended
• Hollie Parry听Projections of thermally induced coral bleaching across Caribbean reefs, using a marine heatwave algorithm.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Joint Winner.
• Samantha (Cheuk Lam) Siu听How symbolic capital matters: international student mobilities from Hong Kong to the UK.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Population Geography (PopGRG), Joanna Stillwell Prize.听Joint Winner.
• Sally (Chenyuan) Wang听Assessing the impacts of climate change using hydrological modelling for the River Dee catchment, Northeast Scotland.听British Hydrological Society (BHS), Annual Student Award for the best undergraduate dissertation in hydrology.听Winner.
• Natalie (Yuqiao) Deng听A tephropalaeoecology study investigating volcanic eruptions and tephra depositions' impacts on a lacustrine ecosystem in Northeast China, using diatoms as environmental indicators.听Quaternary Research Association Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Samuel Street听Navigating the maelstrom: The conjunctural geographies of Nigerian online freelancers.听Development Geographies Research Group.听Winner.

2021

• Finbar Aherne听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.听Joint Winner.
• Adwoa Amankona听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.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Race, Culture and Equality Working Group (RACE), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.Winner.
• Adwoa Amankona听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.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Race, Culture and Equality Working Group (RACE), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Joe Cappai听Tapping into tech: the influence of social media on dancers and the spaces they use to dance in London.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Jay Chang听A detailed assessment of the current and future spatial distribution of Loxodonta cyclotis in Central Africa: An application of ensemble species distribution model.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Joint Winner.
• Will Chantry听Built from the internet up': examining citizen engagement in Google's first smart city, Quayside Toronto.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Participatory Geographies Research Group (PYGYRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. b.
• Heather Goldring听Migration and material culture: the Guyanese living room.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Developing Areas Research Group (DARG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Juliette Masson听The sociocultural integration of British immigrants within rural communities of rural Poitou-Charentes, France.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Population Geography Research Group (PGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Hattie Powell-Cook听'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.听Highly Commended.
• Tang, Bing Yang听Exploring the workers鈥� journey for a better ride: A curiosity-led qualitative study on food delivery drivers experiences in Singapore.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.

2020

• Yusuf Khan-Cheema听Noise is subjective? Exploring residents' lived experiences of aircraft noise around London's Heathrow Airport听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)听Planning and Environment Research Group Dissertation Prize.听Winner.

2019

• Bronwyn Butler听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.听Third prize.
• Tallulah Gordon听Suffragettes in the City: Exploring gendered memory through analysis of two London exhibitions commemorating the British women鈥檚 suffrage centenary.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Runner up.
• Helena Robertson听Mapping elections: a quantitative analysis of cartographic visualisation techniques. British Cartographic Society's听Ian听Mumford听Award.听Winner.
• Teki Tetteh-Wright听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.听Winner.
• Nicola Ward听The crash of ash: A study into the extent of ash dieback in Norfolk and the associated potential changes in woodland composition.听British Association of Nature Conservationists ECOS Student Article Competition 2019.听Second prize.

2018

• Fumica Azuma听Mangrove recolonization following aquaculture: Case study from Pulau Ubin, Singapore. Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Alfred Steers Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Miles Harrison听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.听Winner.
• Charlotte Hudson听Impacts of climate change on river flows in Siberia鈥檚 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.听Runner up.
• Jack Wharton听Reconstructing AMOC over the past 7000 years: was the Industrial Era weakening an unprecedented event?听Quaternary Research Association Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.

2017

• Holly Campbell听Moments of progress: An exploration of the interaction between female enterprise and patriarchal norms in Sel莽uk, Turkey. Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Wilson Chun Chan听Modelling the hydrological impacts of climate change on the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia.听British Hydrological Society, Annual Student Award for the best undergraduate dissertation in hydrology.听Runner up.
• Lilly Donnelly听Interpreting the revitalization of the Los Angeles River through the lens of urban ecological citizenship.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Anna Knowles Smith听Refugees and theatre: an exploration of the basis of self-representation.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Social & Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Carole Roberts听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.听Winner.

2016

• Lucy Taylor听The male gaze of colonial cartography: a feminist analysis of maps of Africa from the Royal Geographical Society archive, 1851-颅1891.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Historical Geography Research Group, Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Alicia Xin Yi Wong听Evaluation of void decks as sites of social (non) interactions, and the nature and impacts of these (non) interactions.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Urban Geography Research Group, Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Joseph Hussey听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听(PopGRG), Joanna Stillwell Prize.听Winner. Society for Location Analysis.听Bronze Prize.
• Matita Afoakwa听Self, Status and Survival: The experience of return migration of professionals to Accra, Ghana.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG),听Developing Areas Research Group, Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Ben Ayre听Constructing an Arctic Laboratory: Oil Spill Simulations at the Hydrocarbon Frontier. Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Political Geography Group Dissertation Prize.听Winner.

2015

• Daphne Lee听Ageing-environment relationships: public neighbourhood spaces in Singapore as a site of phenomenological construction.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)听Developing Areas Research Group听(DARG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner;听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)听Urban Geography Research Group听(UGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Katharine Sherratt听Exploring the impact of rural financial insecurity on access to sanitation: a multi-dimensional approach, in Karnataka, India. Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)听Rural Geography Research Group听(RGRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Joint second.

2014

• James Brennan:听Validation of a spectrally invariant model of canopy radiative transfer with MODIS data and its application to canopy dynamics in Amazon forests.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG), Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Joint second.
• Joon Ting Ho:听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.听Winner; and British Hydrological Society, Annual Student Award for the best undergraduate dissertation in hydrology.听Runner up.
• Hannah Mallinson:听Glacial isostatic readjustment of the British Isles: a study of coastal response in Western Scotland and Southern Wales.听The British Society for Geomorphology (BSG) - Marjorie Sweeting Dissertation Prize.听Winner.

2012

• Emma Colven:听A neoliberal political agenda? The debate surrounding outdoor service provision for the homeless in Westminster.听Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Urban Geography Research Group, Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Winner.
• Amanda Green:听Quantifying uncertainty in projections of river discharge in the Mekong River Basin under climate change.听British Hydrological Society, Annual Student Award for the best undergraduate dissertation in hydrology.听Winner.

2011

• Christopher Checkley:听An evaluation of wave conditions and coastal features around the Isles of Scilly utilising: wave refraction modelling and coastal system mapping.听British Society for Geomorphology, Marjorie Sweeting Dissertation Prize.听Winner
• Katherine Keogan:听Affordable housing and fragile communities: lessons from a proposed development in an English coastal village. RGS-IBG Rural Geography Research Group Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Second Prize.
• Katariina Makela:听Modern urban women: a study of Signe Brander's photography in early 20th-century Helsinki.听RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group undergraduate dissertation prize.听Winner
• Ravi Soni:听Urban regeneration and the effect on small established businesses: the case of Eastside.听RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group Undergraduate Dissertation prize.听听Winner
• Catherine van de Dries:听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,听First prize.

2010

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

2009

• Richard Mallett:听鈥滻t's like one leg is in the village, one leg is here鈥�: transition, connection and (uncertain?) aspirations among urban internally displaced people in Kampala, Uganda. RGS-IBG Developing Areas Group.听Winner
• Teo Tsu-Lyn:听The future of the past: heritage conservation and tourism promotion in Singapore's Chinatown.听Geography of Tourism and Leisure Research Group.听Winner
• Joe Penny:听Skate and Destroy?听RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group.听Winner
• Jeffrey Wilkinson:听Modelling the hydrological impacts of climate change on the Mekong River, British Hydrological Society Student Award.听Runner up.
• Jane Chia Pei En:听Intersections of identity: young Malay Muslim women in Singapore.听RGS-IBG Women and Geography Study Group.听Second Prize

2008

• Cathy Lucas:听Risk society or social risk? NGO constructions of chemical threats鈥�.听RGS-IBG Women and Geography Study Group.听Winner
• Elizabeth Gardner:听Factors influencing the ecology of Petrorhagia nanteuilii: A case study from the shingle habitat of Pagham harbour, West Sussex.听RGS-IBG Biogeography Research Group.听Winner
• Tom Rutherford:听Questioning the country childhood idyll: parenting and children鈥檚 safety in three Kentish villages.听RGS-IBG Children, Youth and Famlies Working Group.听Runner-up
• Kinnari Chhaya:听The second generation and transnationalism: a study of second generation Gujaratis in London.听RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group. 听2^nd听prize
• Emily Haynes:听The development of a coastal vulnerability index for north Norfolk.听Landscape Research Group Prize for original academic research.听Highly commended

2007

• Ruth Judge:听Exploring Cambodian national identity: AngKor and Apsaras as 鈥楲ieux de Memoire. Landscape Research Group.听Winner
• Emilia Bobinski:听If you picked the heart out of anything it would die鈥�. The effects of the common fisheries policy on fishing identity and community of the island of Whalsay, Shetland.听RGS-IBG Rural Geography Research Group. Joint Third place
• Sacha Clark:听Modelling internal migration in the UK 鈥� can the gravity model help explain 鈥榳hite flight鈥� by comparing white and non-white internal migration in the UK.听RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group.听Highly Commended

2006

• Siobhan听Luikham:听Primary education in Ghana: RGS-IBG Developing Areas Research Group. 听Winner

2005

• Rebekah听Rochester:听Modelling hydrological impacts of climate change on the Lena River, Siberia.听British Hydrological Society Student Award.听Winner.听RGS-IBG Quantitative Methods Research Group听Winner
• Charlie Malyon:听Landscapes of the mind: the influence of the human life cycle on landscape preferences.听Landscape Research Group.听Highly commended
• Samantha Jones:听Land management at How Hill Fen, Norfolk since 1997 and its impact on vegetation succession over time.听Landscape Research Group.听Highly commended

2004

• Laura Pitcher:听It鈥檚 bringing it all back: exploring (re)presentation and epiphany in Gap Year material cultur.听RGS-IBG Alfred Steers鈥� Dissertation Prize.听Winner
• Virginia Panizzo:听Recent environmental change in Rwenzori Mountains. Quaternary Research Association/RGS Dissertation Prize.听Winner
• Lucinda Mileham:听An investigation into the rate, causes and extent of glacial retreat on the Speke and Elena Glaciers on the Rwenzori mountains, Western Uganda.鈥�听British Hydrological Society Student Award.听听Winner
• Vikki McNair:听Elite female rowers鈥� negotiation of embodied identity in a gendered world.听RGS-IBG Women and Geography Study Group.听Joint Runner up
• Alistair Gates:听Assessing the generality of J.L Stein鈥檚 findings for Hampstead: examining the social reception and diffusion of the telephone in Camden Town, 1890-1911.听RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group & Cambridge University Press Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.听Highly commended.

2003

• Cheryl Anne Lim Su Ying:听An investigation into the ecological impacts of trampling on tropical plants in Singapore and the implications for future park managemen.鈥櫶�RGS-IBG Biogeography Research Group.听 Winner
• Jason Mitchell:听鈥淲hen gays are spatially scattered they鈥檙e invisible鈥� The formation and expression of gay male identities in non-urban communities.听RGS-IBG Rural Geography Research Group.听 Winner
• Ian Humphrey:听A forest for the community? An assessment of Thames Chase Community Forest.听Landscape Research Group.听听Runner up

Publications based on undergraduate dissertations

• Ho J.T., Thompson J.R. & Brierley C. (2015) Projections of hydrology in the Tocantins-Araguaia Basin, Brazil: uncertainty assessment using the CMIP5 ensemble,听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听Meridional Overturning Circulation.听Hydrology Research. doi: 10.2166/nh.2019.151
• Irvine, G.,听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.),听Climate-induced disasters in the Asia-Pacific region: Response, recovery, adaptation听(pp. 57鈥�86). Bingley: Emerald Publishing.
• Sayer, C.D., Davidson, T.A., Rawcliffe, R., Langdon, P., Leavitt, P.,听Cockerton, G.听& Rose, N., Croft, T. (2016) Consequences of fish kills for long-term trophic structure in shallow lakes: Implications for theory and restoration.听Ecosystems,听19,听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.听Tellus A,听67, 24474,听
• Tetteh-Wright, T.听(2019)听听ECOS听40(4).听British Association of Nature Conservationists ECOS Student Article Competition 2019. Undergraduate Winner.
• Thompson, J.R.,听Crawley, A., Kingston, D.G. (2016). GCM-related uncertainty for river flows and inundation under climate change: The Inner Niger Delta.听Hydrological Sciences Journal听61, 2325-2347.
• Thompson, J.R.,听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.听Journal of Hydrology听486, 1-30.
• Vaughan R., Turner S.D., Rose N.L. (2017) Microplastics in the sediments of a UK urban lake.听Environmental Pollution,听229, 10-18. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.05.057
• Ward, N. (2019) The crash of ash听ECOS听40(4). . Undergraduate Runner up.