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Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG)

The RGS-IBG Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) is pleased to offer an annual prize of £50 for the best undergraduate dissertation in social and/or cultural geography. The prize-winner, plus a runner-up, will receive a year's subscription to the Journal of Social and Cultural Geography published by Taylor & Francis. 

We welcome submissions that are either conceptually ambitious or empirically impactful, or both.  We are keen to recognise the work of students who demonstrate excellence across a range of research skills – conceptual, theoretical, methodological and analytical.  In doing so we are mindful of the role an undergraduate dissertation can (and should) play in enabling students to develop high-level research skills that translate effectively outside the academy, as well as within it. 

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.
  • Be institutionally anonymised, i.e. any reference to the student’s institution on cover sheets (for example) should be removed.

We are looking to reward both excellent scholarship and innovation in the study of social and cultural geography. 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 SCGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize please contact Dr Danny McNally, or see the information, including previous winning entries, on the SCG dissertation prize website.

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