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Society medals and awards

Since 1832, our prestigious medals and awards have recognised excellence in geographical research and fieldwork, teaching and public engagement.

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2022 Awards

This year our medals and awards recognise 23 different people or organisations for their outstanding contributions to geographical research, fieldwork and teaching, and public engagement.

 

Royal Medals

Her Majesty the Queen has approved the award of the Royal Medals as follows:

 

Royal Medal - Founder’s Medal

  • Sir David Hempleman-Adams For enabling science through expeditions, and inspiring younger generations of geographers

Royal Medal - Patron’s Medal

  • Professor Dame Jane Francis For her contributions to the earth and environmental sciences

 

Council awards

The Society’s Council has made the following awards:
 

Victoria Medal

  • Professor Paul Cloke For his contribution to rural geography and to the wider discipline

Busk Medal

  • Professor James D. Sidaway For fieldwork and engagement with a remarkable span of theoretical approaches

Cherry Kearton Medal and Award

  • Nicholas Jones For his ability to ‘capture the uncapturable’: the ever-changing play of light on landscape

Murchison Award

  • Professor David Hannah For the quality, international impact, and breadth of his publications within the field of hydroclimatology

Back Award

  • Dr Fiona McConnell For outstanding scholarship underpinned by a commitment to shape public policy in geopolitical settings

Cuthbert Peek Award

  • Professor Alex Singleton For contributions to contemporary methods in geography that lie at the boundary between the social and computational sciences

Gill Memorial Award (two awards)

  • Professor Christina Hicks For exceptional early career research with a remarkable track record of achievement

  • Dr Junxi Qian For exceptional early career research with a remarkable track record of achievement

Ordnance Survey Awards (two awards)

  • Alistair Hamill For excellence in geography education at secondary level

  • Iram Sammar For excellence in geography education at secondary level

Taylor and Francis Award

  • Professor Nicola Thomas For outstanding leadership in research-led teaching and community partnerships

Ness Award

  • Lemn Sissay OBE For recognition of his long-standing contributions to promoting insightful understandings of our place in the world by means of poetry and the spoken word

Fordham Award

  • David Rumsey For his significant contributions to public access to historic maps and cartography

Alfred Steers Dissertation Prize

  • Jessica Edgley For the undergraduate geography dissertation judged to be the best in 2021

Area Prize

  • Dr Samantha Saville For the best article in the journal by a new researcher: “Towards humble geographies”

Ron Cooke Award 

  • Joelle D’Mello For her A Level project titled “Through economic status, the environment, accessibility, and regeneration, how does quality of living vary between a rural and urban area?”

Geographical Award

  • Black Girls Hike For enabling and empowering Black women and girls to connect with and enjoy being in the outdoors

Honorary Fellowship 

In recognition of outstanding support for geography

  • Professor Patricia Orchid Daley

  • Dr Joanne Norcup

  • Professor Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly

Honorary Fellowship 

In recognition of outstanding support for the Society and geography

  • Nigel Winser

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