Society medals and awards

Council awards

The Society’s Council has made the following awards:
 

Victoria Medal

• Professor Chris Philo For his promotion and contribution to research in health, social and cultural geographies

Busk Medal

• Dr Emma Mawdsley For exceptional engagements with fieldwork, research and knowledge production about the global South

Cherry Kearton Medal and Award

• David Coulson For providing outstanding resources through his photographic work to enable a better understanding of African Rock Art

Murchison Award

• Dr Patricia Noxolo For publications judged to contribute most to geographical science in preceding recent years, particularly through reconceptualising spatial ethics through place-based practices and her effective advocating of postcolonial and decolonial thought in geography and beyond

Back Award

• Professor Terry Marsden For outstanding contribution to the development of national and international rural planning and development public policy

Cuthbert Peek Award

• Professor Philip Ashworth For pioneering wide-reaching research methods through the modelling of river dynamics

Gill Memorial Award (two awards)

• Dr Sarah Marie Hall For outstanding early career research in human geography

• Dr Louise Slater For outstanding early career research in physical geography

Ordnance Survey Awards (two awards)

• Hafsa Bobat Garcia For excellence in geography education at secondary level

• Kate Stockings For excellence in geography education at secondary level

Taylor and Francis Award

• Catherine White For sustained contributions to teaching and learning in higher education, supporting geographers through their transition across different stages of education

Ness Award

• Isabella Tree For the popularisation of geography through her writing on biodiversity and the relation between humans and the environment

Alfred Steers Dissertation Prize

• Alice Collins For the undergraduate geography dissertation judged to be the best in 2020 "'I’ve never seen it look like that': The dronescape, tentative enchantments, and a passion to fly"

Area Prize

• Dr Ingrid Medby For the best article in the journal by a new researcher: Political geography and language: A reappraisal for a diverse discipline

Ron Cooke Award 

• Hollie Daw For her A Level Independent Investigation “An examination of the factors affecting infiltration rate at Ashford Hill National Nature Reserve”

Geographical Award

• Dr Suresh Paul/Equal Adventure For contributions to inclusive and ethical practices in expeditions and fieldwork

Honorary Fellowship in recognition of outstanding support for the Society and geography

• Paul Brown

• Professor Allan Findlay

• Professor John Lewin

• Dr John Hemming

• Mark Humphreys