Animal Geography Working Group (AGWG)

The RGS-IBG Animal Geography Working Group (AGWG) is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best undergraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize.

We are excited to receive submissions that explore human-animal relations or the spaces, practices, and experiences of animals themselves through a geographical lens. All award recipients will have their dissertations featured on the AGWG website.

Nominated dissertations should:

• Be an outstanding theoretical and/or empirical piece of work.
• Usually be approximately 10,000 words in length.
• Be submitted for formal assessment in the preceding academic year to a UK Higher Education Institution for a BA/BSc level degree programme in geography.
• Be written in English.

We are looking to reward both excellent scholarship and innovation in the study of animal geographies. Please note that a department may not submit more than one entry to the prize. Nominated dissertations may however be submitted for consideration for other Society prizes.

Nominations are requested from the Head of Department or Dissertation Convenor. All dissertations should be submitted as a single PDF. Please include a post-September email and contact address for the student. The winners will be announced in September.

For further queries about the AGWG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize please contact Dr Jonathon Turnbull. Winners of the prize will be published on the AGWG website annually.

Please use this form to submit your student's dissertation for consideration for this prize. You will be asked to submit the dissertation itself via email to rhed@rgs.org

Deadline: 15 July.