The Essay Prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in a UK geography department.

The prize is named in honour of Professor Alfred Steers, who was Professor at Cambridge for seventeen years and was Honorary Vice President, Honorary Fellow, and medallist of this Society.

Winners

All dates below refer to the year each dissertation was submitted. Prizes were presented during the summer of the following year.

 2010 Flora Hinks (University of Sheffield) - “The modification of the urban climate by small parks in Sheffield, UK”

 2009 Two awards given: L Stapleton (University of Cambridge) - “From Local Buzz to Global Pipelines: A Question of Firm Maturity”. J Jenkinson (University of Southampton) - “An Exposé of the Critically Endangered Palm Dypsis saintelucei Endemicto the Littoral Forest Mosaic of South East Madagascar”.

 2008 H Dinsdale (Lancaster University) - "Bodies, Homes and Institutions: Constructed and Contested Identities at the End of the Lifecourse"

· Special commendation to R Jones (University of Gloucestershire) - "Evaluating the use of lichenometry and dendrochronogy as dating methods on intra-glacial forelands"

 2007 G Jennings (St Mary's College) - “The Production of Nationalist Iconography in O'Connell Street: A Study of Dublin's Monumental Landscape”

 2006 C Parks (University of Manchester) - "Category C call misuse: low priority, high cost? Greater Manchester Ambulance Service"

 2005 L Pitcher - "It's bringing it all back...Exploring (re)representation and epiphany in gap-year material culture"

 2004 Two awards given: G Schumann (Dundee University) - "Application of a degree-day model on a Swiss glacierised catchment to determine snow depth for improved neural network discharge forecast". K Hann (University of Oxford) - "The production of Broughton Park: contexualising Lefebvre in an Orthodox Jewish Community"

 2003 Two awards given: A Lewis - "An investigation into the transfer and use of agricultural information in an Indian farming community". G Davies – "Light pollution as an environmental hazard"

 2002 S Wall-Budden (Royal Holloway, University of London)

 2001 Two awards given: F Morton, (University of Strathclyde). K Wilson, (University of Edinburgh)

 2000 N Rosser (Durham University)

 1999 Two awards given: J Buallard (University of Oxford) – “The mobility and morphology of Barchan sand dunes". A Millard-Ball (Edinburgh University) - "Gentrification in Stockholm: Social change, tenure change and residential mobility in a mixed economy"

 1998 Two awards given: S Selby (University of Edinburgh) - "Assessment of Effects of Mennonite Agriculture in Wetland Ecology".  D Johnson (University of Cambridge) - "The Norwegian Open Air Folk Museum and its role in the preservation and representation of past Scandinavian Cultures"

 1997 R Perkins (University of Oxford) - "Environmental impact assessment of a woodland buffer strip project in the Slapton catchment, South Devon"

 1995 & 1996 No award

 1994 R Dils (University of Sheffield) - "Vegetation succession and the associated pedalogical changes in reclaimed chalk quarry"

 1993 T E Coles (University of Exeter) - "The historical geography of retailing in Kassel: 1873-1900"

 1992 S N Lane (University of Cambridge) - "An evaluation of how short-term changes in channel morphology relate to the hydraulics of flow through the braided reach of a gravel-bedded proglacial stream"

 1991 J Rasey (University of Exeter) - "The impact of residential development upon the Isle of Wight Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty"

 1990 L Osmond (Royal Holloway & Bedford New College, University of London) - "Late Enclosure on the Welsh Borderland"

 1989 B Brown (Coventry Polytechnic) - "The distribution and behaviour of Icebergs on the South Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean"

 1988 T Dawson-Munoz (University of Oxford) - "Dirt Ogives on the Mer de Glace"