The RGS/IBG Social and Cultural Geography Research Group is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best undergraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a runner-up prize. Both prize-winners will receive a year’s subscription to the Journal of Social and Cultural Geography published by Taylor & Francis.
Nominated dissertations should be:
- be an outstanding theoretical and/or empirical piece of work;
- usually approx.10,000 words in length;
- submitted for formal assessment in the preceding academic year to a UK Higher Education Institution for a BA/BSc level degree programme in geography;
- written in English.
We are looking to reward both excellent scholarship and innovation in the study of social and cultural geography. Please note that a department may not submit more than one entry to the prize. Nominated dissertations may however be submitted for consideration for other RGS-IBG prizes.
Submission procedure
Nominations are requested from the Head of Department or Dissertation Convener. All dissertations should be submitted as a single PDF file, with an email that will be live post-September, and contact address for the student.
Submissions should be emailed to sio13@aber.ac.uk with ‘SCGRG Dissertation prize submission’ as the subject header.
The winners will be announced in September. For further queries about the SCGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize please contact Dr Sinéad O’Connor (sio13@aber.ac.uk), or see information, including previous winning entries, on the RGS website: https://www.rgs.org/research/research-groups/research-groups-dissertation-prizes/
Deadline: 15th July 2022