We’ve looked through the full back catalogue of SCGRG prize winning undergraduate dissertations and found useful examples of methods that can be used during lockdown.
- Thomas Paulsen, University of Exeter – Runner Up 2017
- In Search of Danish Atmospheres
- Uses auto-ethnography and analysis of family photographs to explore Danish identity.
- Megan O’Kane, Queens University Belfast – Runner Up 2016
- Geographies of Suicide and the Representation of Self-Sacrifice in Japanese Popular Culture and Media
- Discursive analysis of manga and anime animation, supported with secondary background data, to examine representations of suicide and self-sacrifice in Japanese popular culture.
- Grace Burchell, University of Nottingham – Runner Up 2015
- Breeding Frankenstein’s Bulldog: reimagining the Pedigree in Nineteenth Century England
- Archival research (some accessed digitally), literary analysis of novels, and visual analysis, in order to understand how bulldogs have been appropriated by different social groups.
- Helen Spooner, University of Oxford – Runner up 2014
- A kinaesthetic spirituality: An autophenomenographic account of running 250km of the Camino Portugués
- Uses autoethnographic methods focusing on the author’s own experiences of running to think about the embodied, sensual emergence of landscape and self through practice.
- Simon Cook, University of Plymouth – Runner up 2013
- Jography: Exploring the Mobilities of Road-Running
- Uses online training diaries with runners as part of wider work with mobile methods.
- Emma Bonny, University of Nottingham – Runner up 2010
- The landscape and culture of allotments: a study in Hornchurch, Essex
- Uses participant diaries/ ‘photovoice’ methods – a good way of doing primary research without having to go into the field.
- Jessica Potts, Durham University – Winner 2011
- “We are not here, we are not there”: Young Refugees’ and Asylum Seeker’s Negotiations of Identity and Belonging
- Another example of ‘photovoice’ methods.
- Mary McLaren, University of Exeter – Runner up 2011
- Constructing distant geographies of care: the example of Fairtrade in Horsham
- Analyses commercial Fairtrade images and their work in creating particular consumer imaginaries of the people and places they are linked to through their consumption.