Prizes

Each year the department awards prizes based on outstanding examination performance:

• The Hart Prize for the best performance at level 1 in Geography.
• The Hart Prize for the best performance at level 2 in Geography by a student reading Single Geography.
• The Alice Garnett Prize for the best dissertation (GEO356) by a student reading Single Geography.
• The Hart Prize for the level 3 student who has brought most credit to the department.
• The RS Waters Physical Geography Prize to be awarded to a student reading Single Geography on the basis of the best overall performance (excluding the dissertation) in Physical Geography including both levels 2 and 3.
• The Hart Human Geography Prize to be awarded to a student reading Single Geography on the basis of the best overall performance (excluding the dissertation) in Human Geography including both levels 2 and 3.
• The Alice Garnett Prize for the best performance in Geography by a student reading for a Dual Honours degree.
• Fearnsides Prize: for reports on geology and earth science modules.
• The Laverick-Webster-Hewitt Prize for the overall best performance in the final examination of a student reading geology.
• The Laverick-Webster-Hewitt Travelling Fellowship: for students of geology and physical geography modules wishing to undertake research in areas of international importance.
• L.R.Moore Prizes in Geology: for reports and maps in field projects submitted for final examination (Geography students are eligible).
• The Accenture Prize: for best overall performance in Human and Physical Geography.

In addition to these internal prizes the department enters dissertations of outstanding merit for the following external prizes:

• Bill Ogden Memorial Prize (Regional Studies Association): best essay/project/dissertation on the study of strategic planning at the European scale.
• The Royal Geographical Society Climate Change Research Group (CCRG) prize: for innovative and high-quality thesis research in human or physical geography dimensions of climate change related research.
• RGS–IBG (Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers) Biogeography Research Group prize: best undergraduate dissertation in the field of biogeography.
• RGS–IBG (Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers) Developing Areas Research Group: best undergraduate dissertation in the area of the Developing World.
• RSAIBIS (Regional Science Association International: British and Irish Section) Award in Regional Science: awarded for the best piece of written work in Regional Science.
• The Alfred Steers Dissertation Prize (Royal Geographical Society): best undergraduate dissertation for a first degree.
• The Marjorie Sweeting BGRG Dissertation Prize: best undergraduate dissertation in the field of geomorphology.