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Figure with raised arms looking out at a sunset of the oceanUndergraduate Highlights and Achievements

Our students thrive in a supportive and open learning environment. We are keen to both celebrate their successes and to find ways to pay it forward.

We hold an annual photographic competition open to all undergraduate students (paused during the pandemic) and recognise throughout the year those who have made special contributions to the university community and beyond.

We also support students seeking scholarships and nominate students for recognition within and beyond the university.

 

Recent Publications by Geography Students

  • Tess Howard (2023) "" Sport, Education and Society.
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  • Iona Nixon and Jeremy Schmidt (2023) "." cultural geographies.
  • Evie Wilkinson (2022) "." Routes 3(2): 75-84.
  • Amy Campbell (2021) "." Columbia Undergraduate Research Journal, 5(1).
  • Tiegan Hannah Ansell (2021) "" Routes 2(1): 10-14.
  • Lily Duffy (2020) "" Routes 1(1): 109-119.
  • Charlie Drew (2019) "" Journal of Undergradtuate Ethnography 9(2): 3-18.

 

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Annual Photographic Competition

Welcome to the Durham Geography undergraduate photo competition! Each year we receive entries from dissertation research and fieldtrips taken around the world and from across all levels of our undergraduate community.

Geography Photographic Competition

    

Dissertation Prize Winners

Each year the top undergraduate dissertations from across the department are nominated for a variety of prizes in human and physical geography. These prizes are adjudicated by working groups of the Royal Geographical Society and other learned societies. We are delighted to announce that those below have received recognition as truly exemplary undergraduate scholarship!

 

2024 Dissertations

Nominated Prize Student Dissertation Title Result

Sophie Pretorius

A legacy of Apartheid?’: A GIS - based multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) into relative social vulnerability within Cape Town, South Africa'.

Winner!

Sophie Reuben

'Boundaries, intimacy and postfeminism: A feminist geographic exploration into OnlyFans'

Winner!

Lily Weston

“It's a regular thing and it's always going to happen to you": An exploration of sexual harassment and assault on the London Underground through the lens of Rob Nixon's (2011) 'slow violence’.

Winner!

Emily Horrell

The Geographies of Gestation: A Feminist Investigation into the Potential Impacts of Ectogenesis on Women".

runner up

Christopher Weber

The Indigenous Other: Critically examining the construction of Bolivian indigeneity within contemporary climate change governance discourse

Winner!

 

Kate Callow

Navigating the Hostile Environment: Exploring the Impact of Rising State hostility on Asylum seekers in UK 'Quasi Detention' Accommodation'.

Winner!

Molly Gath

Sedimentology and stratigraphy associated with the Late Devensian Welsh Ice Cap and Irish Sea Ice Stream: Glanllynnau, Ll欧n Peninsula, Northwest Wales.'

Winner!

 

2023 Dissertations

Nominated Prize Student Dissertation Title Result

Emilia O'Keefe

The diffusion of clean energy technology: an assessment of domestic solar panel and electric vehicle distribution in England and the factors influencing their adoption.

Winner!

 

2022 Dissertations

Nominated Prize Student Dissertation Title Result

Helena Lewis

The global intimate: an exploration into how a yogic breathwork practice is conducive to and resists a biopolitical rationality Winner!

Saskia Huxham

Reaching carbon neutrality in electric and hydrogen-powered transport by 2045: A case study of resident perceptions and the technical feasibility of implementing a renewable power structure on the Isle of Skye, Scotland Winner!

Flora Farthing

Re-entry as 'punishment's twin': an exploration of contemporary post-release carceral environment Winner!

Thomas Bartlett

A 'post-colonial borderlands approach' to the Northern Province of colonial Sudan, 1897-1956 Highly Commended

 

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2021 Dissertations

Nominated Prize Student Dissertation Title Result
Francesca Rapinet Damaging discourse or humanitarian heroes? A study of the representations of Third World Women's agency in the context of US involvement in Afghanistan between 2001-2008 2nd Place: Highly Commended
Shoaib Ahmed A feminist examination of women's embodied experiences of sexual desire in nightclub settings: scripts, affects, and forces Highly Commended
Edward Gardiner White landscapes, Black histories: addressing cultural heritage and exclusion in the Lake District Runner up
Anna Souter Public transport, austerity, and community responses: a case study of Northamptonshire Commended
Emma Bramley An investigation into the seasonal, spatial, and interannual controls on streamflow dissolved metal concentration in a continuous permafrost watershed in the Low Canadian Arctic between 2013 and 2017 Runner up
Pascal Tchen Platformisation in the UK electricity system transition: tracing socio-technical change, digital platforms, and decarbonisation Runner up

 

2020 Dissertations

 Nominated Prize Student Dissertation  Title Result
Katy Simms No one wants to meet the love of their life on Tinder: Investigating the effects of mobile dating apps on love and intimacy and identity negotiations for bisexual individuals Winner!
Emma Brown Making Sense of the Stolen Generation: An exploration into the logic underpinning the removal of Aboriginal children Joint runner-up
Dylan Inglis Do Basque Speakers Value Nature Differently? A Q value analysis of value systems relating to the forests of the Eastern Basque Country Winner!
Ellie Day A Sedimentological Reconstruction of the Glacial History of Happisburgh, Norfolk, through Marine Isotope Stage 12 Winner!
James Lockwood Assessing the transfer of heavy metal contaminants from Yewthwaite lead mines into the Newlands Catchment Area Winner!
Harriet Jennings What to wear? Exploring the sartorial practices of young Bengali women in an age of transnational fashion Second place

 

2019 Dissertations

Nominated Prize Student Dissertation Title Result
Hannah Springford The Potential of Periods: the role of education and social enterprise in African menstrual poverty alleviation Runner-up
William Silver Gordon Matta-Clark’s slices through space: artwork towards a critical understanding of the spatial Runner-up
Riyana Dyson 'One foot in each camp': Negotiating a mixed-race identity as a university student Third Place
Isabel Locke The audibility of refugee children: how English language acquisition impacts refugee students Second Place
Madeleine Woods An investigation into drumlin sedimentology and its implications for drumlin genesis and the glacial depositional history of Anglesey, northwest Wales Winner!
Hannah Sellgren Regimes of Care and Control: Enacting and Contesting Borders in the National Health Service Honorable Mention

 

2018 Dissertations

Nominated Prize Student Dissertation Title Result
Charles White Watershed Development and Transboundary Hydropolitics: A Case Study of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Runner-up
Pearl Palfreyman There are a lot of undertones to being in a wheelchair”: Analysing How Disability Drag Perpetuates Tropes of Disability Onscreen Winner!
Nathan White Black skin, white classrooms: an investigation into British secondary schooling’s effects on black students of Caribbean heritage’s racial identity construction Joint runner-up
Charlotte Johnson Child-friendly Coffee Shops: a `Space of Wellbeing’ for Mothers with Young Children Co-winner!

 

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Founded in 1928, the Department of Geography at 樱花动漫 is one of the leading centres of geographical research and education in the world.

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