The Carceral Geography Working Group (CGWG) is offering a £50 prize for postgraduate research. The prize-winner will also be offered one-day registration for the Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG and invited to feature their writing on the Carceral Geography website.
The prize will be awarded for the best research ‘paper’, which could be derived from a Masters thesis, PhD chapter, or a conference paper script. No more than 5,000 words should be submitted. Where students submit a script for a conference paper, a copy of any accompanying slides should also be submitted. Papers should include a full set of references and images (as relevant).
The prize is open to both current and former postgraduate students at both Masters and PhD level. In order to be eligible for the prize, former postgraduate students must have submitted a Masters or doctoral dissertation no earlier than 12 months before the prize deadline. Where any applicant wishes to submit a conference script for consideration, the conference paper should have been delivered no earlier than 12 months before the prize deadline.
We recognise that the 2023 UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott may have affected submissions in 2023. For the 2024 competition only, we will accept papers derived from dissertations submitted within 24 months of the submission deadline.
Applications from outside the UK are welcomed but the paper should be written in (or translated professionally to) English. Students need not necessarily be aligned to a geography(-related) discipline but their work should engage with issues of carcerality and/or themes emergent in carceral geographies.
Papers should be submitted by the student in pdf format with an appropriate research supervisor copied into the email.
For any further details or questions please contact Dr Lara Palombo using the details below.
Submissions to: Dr Lara Palombo (Lara.Palombo@mq.edu.au)
Deadline: 1 November 2024