UCL Winners of National Undergraduate Dissertation Prizes since 2003

2011:

• Christopher Checkley: An evaluation of wave conditions and coastal features around the Isles of Scilly utilising: wave refraction modelling and coastal system mapping. British Society for Geomorphology, Marjorie Sweeting Dissertation Prize. Winner

• Ravi Soni: Urban regeneration and the effect on small established businesses: the case of Eastside. RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group Undergraduate Dissertation prize.  Winner

• Katariina Makela: Modern urban women: a study of Signe Brander's photography in early 20th-century Helsinki. RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group undergraduate dissertation prize.  Winner

2010:

• Kallum Dhillon: Help or hindrance? The effects of philanthropic social housing near St Pancras/King's Cross on the Victorian working classes. RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group undergraduate dissertation prize.  Joint winner
  

2009:

• Richard Mallett: ”It's like one leg is in the village, one leg is here”: transition, connection and (uncertain?) aspirations among urban internally displaced people in Kampala, Uganda. RGS-IBG Developing Areas Group. Winner
• Teo Tsu-Lyn: The future of the past: heritage conservation and tourism promotion in Singapore's Chinatown. Geography of Tourism and Leisure Research Group. Winner
• Joe Penny: Skate and Destroy? RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group. Winner
• Jeffrey Wilkinson: Modelling the hydrological impacts of climate change on the Mekong River, British Hydrological Society Student Award. Runner up.

• Jane Chia Pei En: Intersections of identity: young Malay Muslim women in Singapore. RGS-IBG Women and Geography Study Group. Second Prize

2008:

• Cathy Lucas: Risk society or social risk? NGO constructions of chemical threats’.  RGS-IBG Women and Geography Study Group. Winner

• Elizabeth Gardner: Factors influencing the ecology of Petrorhagia nanteuilii: A case study from the shingle habitat of Pagham harbour, West Sussex. RGS-IBG Biogeography Research Group. Winner

• Tom Rutherford: Questioning the country childhood idyll: parenting and children’s safety in three Kentish villages. RGS-IBG Children, Youth and Famlies Working Group. Runner-up

• Kinnari Chhaya: The second generation and transnationalism: a study of second generation Gujaratis in London. RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group.  2^nd prize

• Emily Haynes: The development of a coastal vulnerability index for north Norfolk. Landscape Research Group Prize for original academic research. Highly commended

2007:

• Ruth Judge: Exploring Cambodian national identity: AngKor and Apsaras as ‘Lieux de Memoire. Landscape Research Group. Winner

• Emilia Bobinski:  If you picked the heart out of anything it would die’. The effects of the common fisheries policy on fishing identity and community of the island of Whalsay, Shetland. RGS-IBG Rural Geography Research Group. Joint Third place

• Sacha Clark: Modelling internal migration in the UK – can the gravity model help explain ‘white flight’ by comparing white and non-white internal migration in the UK. RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group. Highly Commended

2006:

• Siobhan Luikham: Primary education in Ghana: RGS-IBG Developing Areas Research Group.  Winner

2005:

• Rebekah Rochester: Modelling hydrological impacts of climate change on the Lena River, Siberia. British Hydrological Society Student Award. Winner. RGS-IBG Quantitative Methods Research Group Runner-up

• Charlie Malyon: Landscapes of the mind: the influence of the human life cycle on landscape preferences.  Landscape Research Group. Highly commended
• Samantha Jones: Land management at How Hill Fen, Norfolk since 1997 and its impact on vegetation succession over time.  Landscape Research Group. Highly commended

2004:

• Laura Pitcher: It’s bringing it all back: exploring (re)presentation and epiphany in Gap Year material cultur. RGS-IBG Alfred Steers’ Dissertation Prize. Winner
• Virginia Panizzo: Recent environmental change in Rwenzori Mountains. Quaternary Research Association/RGS Dissertation Prize. Winner
• Lucinda Mileham: An investigation into the rate, causes and extent of glacial retreat on the Speke and Elena Glaciers on the Rwenzori mountains, Western Uganda.’ British Hydrological Society Student Award.  Winner

• Vikki McNair: Elite female rowers’ negotiation of embodied identity in a gendered world. RGS-IBG Women and Geography Study Group. Joint Runner up
• Alistair Gates: Assessing the generality of J.L Stein’s findings for Hampstead: examining the social reception and diffusion of the telephone in Camden Town, 1890-1911. RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group & Cambridge University Press Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. Highly commended.

2003:

• Cheryl Anne Lim Su Ying: An investigation into the ecological impacts of trampling on tropical plants in Singapore and the implications for future park managemen.’ RGS-IBG Biogeography Research Group.  Winner
• Jason Mitchell: “When gays are spatially scattered they’re invisible” The formation and expression of gay male identities in non-urban communities. RGS-IBG Rural Geography Research Group.  Winner
• Ian Humphrey: A forest for the community? An assessment of Thames Chase Community Forest. Landscape Research Group.  Runner up