Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG)

The Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) is pleased to offer a prize to the best undergraduate dissertation in any area of digital geography* which is based upon original research and demonstrates a high degree of critical analysis and/or innovative and sophisticated methodology.

The successful prize winner, as selected by the DGRG Committee, will be awarded a prize of £100 and will also have the opportunity to showcase their work through the DGRG website and social media channels. You can find an interview with our 2023 winner on the Digital Geographies Research Group YouTube channel.

Dissertations should normally be of first-class standard and nominated by Heads of Department or dissertation supervisors as appropriate. Departments should not submit more than one dissertation for consideration.

Only dissertations submitted during this academic year by students enrolled on an undergraduate degree programme at a university in Europe**, and written in English, will be considered. This is not limited to being a part of a geography department, but the dissertation should meet the prize’s definition of digital geography research.

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.

Any queries should be sent to jack.lowe.2017@rhul.ac.uk (Jack Lowe, Royal Holloway University of London).

*While the concept of Digital Geography can take a more expansive definition, for the purposes of this prize Digital Geography dissertations are expected to engage with geographies produced through, produced by, and of the digital (Ash et. al., 2016).  We especially welcome works that seek to apply geographical ideas and methodologies to make sense of the digital, or that focus on how digital technologies and infrastructures are transforming the geographies of everyday life and the production of space.

**Europe: European countries are defined as EU/EEA countries, with the addition of Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Deadline: 15 July