EGRG annual undergraduate dissertation and PhD thesis prizes
The Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) is pleased to welcome submissions to the annual Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. A prize of £100 is awarded this round for the best undergraduate dissertation in economic geography (broadly define).
Nominated dissertations should be an outstanding theoretical and/or empirical piece of work, usually 8,000 words or more in length, and submitted for formal assessment in the current academic year to a UK Higher Education Institution for a BA/BSc level geography degree programme.
Please note that a department may not submit more than one entry and nominated dissertations should not be submitted for consideration for any other RGS-IBG prizes.
Please fill in Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and RGS-IBG Research Groups Undergraduate Dissertation Prizes Submission Form 2025 by 15th July and refer to the details and guidance on the form.
We are also pleased to again welcome submissions to the annual PhD prize competition. A prize of £100 is awarded each year for the best PhD thesis in economic geography (broadly define). The prize provides the opportunity to recognise the outstanding research conducted by PGRs in the UK and we welcome submissions related to any subfield of economic geography.
To be considered for the award, please send an electronic copy of the thesis to the EGRG Prizes Officer: dissertation.prize@outlook.com by 31st May. This must be an absolutely final version of a PhD thesis that has passed the degree for which it has been submitted at a UK institution between 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024. Each thesis will then be reviewed by the EGRG committee before a winner is announced.
Previous winners can be found via the EGRG website: https://egrg.org/prizes/