The 2008 Medals & Awards were awarded at the 2008 RGS-IBG AGM on 2 June, at the Society's headquarters in central London. The list of recipients are:

  Founder’s Medal

• Professor Julian Dowdeswell
  for the encouragement, development and promotion of glaciology

  Patron’s Medal

• Professor Jessie Walker
  for the encouragement, development and promotion of coastal geomorphology

  Victoria Medal

• Professor Linda McDowell
  for research in socio-economic and feminist geography

  Busk Medal

• Tamotsu Nakamura
  for field exploration in the mountain ranges of west China and Tibet

  Back Award

• Professor Richard Black
  for research contributing  to public policy on migration, refugees and development

  Murchison Award

• Professor Neil Wrigley
  for publications on the economic geography of retail and consumption

  Gill Memorial Award

• Dr Rachel Pain
  for contributions to social geography and participatory research

  Taylor & Francis Award

• Professor Michael Bradford
  for excellence in teaching and learning in geography in higher education

  Ness Award

• David Wright
  for the popularisation of geography among young people

  Alfred Steers Dissertation Prize:

• Hugh Wright
  for the undergraduate geography dissertation judged to be the best in 2007
• Luke Studden
  for a highly commended dissertation

  Ordnance Survey Award

• Louise Ellis
• Alan Parkinson
  for excellence in teaching geography at secondary level

  Area Prize

• Jessica Graybill
  for the best published article in the journal by a new researcher

  Honorary Fellowship

• Lord Chorley
• Lord Mark Fitzalan Howard
  for outstanding services to the Society