2011 Winner:
Ravi Soni, University College London
Urban Regeneration and the Effect on Small Businesses: The Case of Eastside
Honourable Mention:
Joseph I. Silverman, University of Edinburgh
Recovering Everyday Life from ‘Britain’s Most Dangerous Street’: ‘They call it going down Stapes’
This prestigious annual award (with prize to the value of £75) is open to any currently-registered undergraduate student in a UK Department of Geography, Earth Sciences or Environmental Sciences and is given to the dissertation which, in the view of the judges, most clearly exhibits the originality of thought, quality of research and excellence in presentation for which urban geographers are renowned. No substantive area of urban geography is excluded from consideration, and we welcome submissions which address any aspect of the social, economic or political life of cities. Dissertations may be based on secondary (archival) research or primary data, addressing urban issues via a contemporary or historical focus. It is customary for Dissertation Tutors or Heads of Departments to nominate dissertations for this prize.
2010 Winner:
Daniella Zana Snapes, University of Nottingham
The new Polish migrant: Social spaces and their role in the expatriate experience of London
Honourable Mention:
Julie Harris, University of Manchester
Urban exploration: The search for memory in forgotten place
Past Prizes
Dissertation Prize 2009
Winner:
Joe Penny, University College London
“Skate and Destroy”?: Subculture, Space and Skateboarding as Performance (pdf)
Danny McNally, Leeds Metropolitan University
The control of art space: a geographical exploration of art in Leeds (pdf)
Dissertation Prize 2008
Winner:
Michael Stewart Kords, University of Glasgow
Deciphering the ‘Open Citadel’: Discourses of Modernity in the Planning of a Scottish New Town
James Trafford, University of Cambridge
(Re)mapping marginality: black gay men’s exclusions in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Honourable Mentions:
Leonard Ehrenfried, Queen Mary, University of London
Getting a bit of the other: Whiteness and gentrification on Brick Lane
Dissertation Prize 2007
Winner:
Benjamin Thorpe, University of Cambridge
Mapping Toronto’s Hidden Landscapes: The Subversive Cartography of Bill Bunge
Honourable Mentions:
Katherine Bodding, University of Bristol
Slave to the past contestation in Bristol’s Cultural Landscape
Anna Bullivant, Kings’ College London
The Urbanisation of the Suburbs and the Search for Belonging
Kate Maclennan, University of Leeds
Changing Face of Town Twinning: Collaborating in Friendship or Collaborating to Compete
Dissertation Prize 2006
Winner:
Matther Maguire, University of Edinburgh
The consequences of the relocation of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary: an integrated multimodal approach to accessibility studies
Honourable Mentions:
David Roberts, University of Birmingham
Unwelcome in the city: exclusion and the homeless in Liverpool
Katharine Arnold, University of Oxford
La ‘Londonisation’ – the future of Paris? A case for the ‘soft’ global city
Matthew Spilsbury, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Decline and deprivation or renaissance and renewal? Urban regeneration in Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne
Alexander Patton, University of Cambridge
Cultures of dis-attachment?’ A case study of unemployment amongst Bangladeshis in Tower Hamlets and its links to localised social networks, poor social capital and residential segregation
Dissertation Prize 2002
Winner:
Martin Cooper, Queen Mary, University of London
The end of public space? The impact of entrepreneurial governance and the imagineering of space in Centro Ybor, Tampa, Florida
Honourable Mention:
Louisa Cotterill, Royal Holloway, University of London
A model for community participation: urban renewal at the Bull Ring, Birmingham
Dissertation Prize 2001
Winner:
Andrew Currah, University of Cambridge
Virtual Shopping in Toronto: from electronic space to physical place.
Abstract
Honourable Mentions:
Khazida Begum, Brunel University
Gateway to Council Housing: An examination into the experiences of the Bangladeshi community in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Fedrico Caprotti, University of Oxford
The Representation of Power and Ideology in Fascist New Towns: the case of Sabaudi, Italy.
James Faulconbridge, University of Loughborough
European International Financial Centres in the time of Monetary Union
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