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2023 Awards

This year our medals and awards recognise 23 different people or organisations for their outstanding contributions to geographical research, fieldwork and teaching, and public engagement.

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Royal Medals

His Majesty the King has approved the award of the Royal Medals as follows:

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Royal Medal - Founder鈥檚 Medal

  • Andrew Mitchell听For his lifetime鈥檚 contribution to protect tropical rainforests and combat climate change

Royal Medal - Patron鈥檚 Medal

  • Professor Felix Driver听For his contributions to historical geography and to the Society

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Council awards

The Society鈥檚 Council has made the following awards:
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Victoria Medal

  • Professor Anson Mackay听For their transformative impact on the discipline of geography听

Busk Medal

  • Professor Jos Barlow听For his outstanding contribution to understanding and conserving the Amazonian tropical rainforests

Cherry Kearton Medal and Award

  • Harriet Fraser and Rob Fraser听For their discipline-crossing work, aiming to shed light on the seldom-seen and seldom-heard in the context of rural landscapes听

Murchison Award

  • Professor Noel Castree听For substantial and highly influential published work about the relationships between contemporary societies and the physical environment

Back Award

  • Jane Rumble OBE听For outstanding commitment to shaping public policy in polar settings

Cuthbert Peek Award

  • Dr Lisa Wedding听For contributions to advancing contemporary methods in remote sensing of the environment, with novel applications for marine management听

Gill Memorial Award (two awards)

  • Dr Sarah Bell听For exceptional early career research with a remarkable track record of achievement

  • Dr Jovan Scott Lewis听For exceptional early career research with a remarkable track record of achievement

Ordnance Survey Awards听(two awards)

  • Ellie Barker听For excellence in geography education at secondary level

  • Simon Holland听For excellence in geography education at secondary level

Taylor and Francis Award

  • Dr Matt Finn听For excellence in the practice and promotion of teaching in higher education

Ness Award

  • Alastair Humphreys听For his long-standing contributions to promoting a greater understanding of our world and wider public engagement with the outdoors

Alfred Steers Dissertation Prize

  • Roisin Gilloch Boyle听For the undergraduate geography dissertation judged to be the best in 2022

Area Prize

  • Rosie Hampton听For the best article in the journal by a new researcher: 鈥楾owards an agenda for oral history and geography: (Re)locating emotion in family narratives of domestic abuse in 1970s East Kilbride鈥�

Ron Cooke Award听

  • Elysia Sanders听For her A Level project titled 鈥楬ow have glacial and physical post-glacial processes caused variation in the landscape of the Troutbeck Valley鈥�

Geographical Award

  • Endurance22 Expedition听For significant impact in inspiring and raising the understanding of geographical expedition and discovery

Honorary Fellowship听

  • Professor Simon Catling听In recognition of outstanding support for geography

  • Derry Corey听In recognition of outstanding support for the Society

  • Ted Grey听In recognition of outstanding support for geography

  • Alasdair Macleod听In recognition of outstanding support for the Society and geography

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