Animal Geography Working Group - Postgraduate

The RGS-IBG Animal Geography Working Group (AGWG) is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate 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 12,000 words in length.
• Be submitted for formal assessment in the preceding academic year to a UK Higher Education Institution for a MA/MSc 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. The winners will be announced in September.

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

Please email submissions to Dr Jonathon Turnbull at jonathon.turnbull@ouce.ox.ac.uk.

Deadline: 15 July