Prizes
Population Geography Research Group Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
Every year the Population Geography Research Group at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers invites scholars in population geography to nominate undergraduate students for the Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.
This prize is named in memory of the daughter of Professor John Stillwell of the University of Leeds. Joanna, who was a geography graduate from the University of Sheffield, died in 2004. The Population Geography Research Group has set up three prizes (£100 for first prize; £50 for second prize; £25 for third prize) to be awarded for the best undergraduate dissertations of in the broad field of Population Geography.
The winners of the 2011 Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prizes are:
- 1st Elena Giannouli, University of Exeter
- Unequal access to higher education: what do young people from deprived socio-economic backgrounds think?
- 2nd Jamie Dennis, University of Southampton
- Developing a geodemographic typology of attitudes to alcohol consumption in England
- 3rd Michelle Patterson, University of Leeds
- The Founding and Growth of Milton Keynes (new town): evidence of its change over time
The winners of the 2010 Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prizes were:
- 1st Rachel Frank, Newcastle University
- How are Health Inequalities Spatially Structured in Middlesborough? Supervisor: Seraphim Alvanides.
- 2nd Alexandria Bowden, Lancaster University
- How are personal community networks constructed? And how important are place, space and cyberspace to these networks? Supervisor: Colin Pooley.
- 3rd Emma Rainer, University of Sussex
- The integration of labour migrants in the hotel industry. Supervisor: Ben Rogaly.
We would like to congratulate the three prize winners and thank all those who participated in this year’s competition.