Undergraduate 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.
- Featured in
- 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.
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.
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 |
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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! | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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