Postgraduate Geography students awarded prizes at Winter Graduation

Millie Oddi presented with The Postgraduate Dissertation Prize for Human Geography by Richard Hodgkins

Last week, our 2022 Post-Graduate Geography and Environment cohort enjoyed a brilliant graduation day on campus celebrating with friends, family, and staff members from our School.

During the day, 13 prize awards were handed out to PGT students that excelled during their time studying our Geography programmes.

The winners were as follows:

  • Felix Auboeck -School of Social Sciences and Humanities Community Prizes: Geography and Environment
  • Jay Chauhan - School of Social Sciences and Humanities Community Prizes: Geography and Environment
  • Consuela Beauchamp-Davies - School of Social Sciences and Humanities Community Prizes: Geography and Environment
  • Shilla Shomai - School of Social Sciences and Humanities Community Prizes: Geography and Environment
  • Jay Chauhan - The Postgraduate Dissertation Prize for Environmental Monitoring, Research and Management
  • Neve Fields - The Postgraduate Dissertation Prize for Climate Change Programmes
  • Millie Oddi - The Postgraduate Dissertation Prize for Human Geography
  • Sophie Troth - The Postgraduate Dissertation Prize for International Financial and Political Relations
  • Neve Fields - The STEER Prize for Excellence in Energy Modelling
  • Consuela Beauchamp-Davies – Carbon Literate Certification
  • Kane Alexander - Carbon Literate Certification
  • Bosibori Mosongo -Carbon Literate Certification
  • Sam Finlayson - Carbon Literate Certification

The Community prize is awarded to students who are judged to have made an exceptional extra-curricular contribution to the discipline, School, University or wider community.

The Dissertation prizes are awarded annually to the student who obtains the highest Dissertation mark on their individual programmes.

The STEER  prize for Excellence in Energy modelling is awarded to the student who obtains the highest mark across modules GYP052 (Mapping and Modelling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) & GYP054 (Economic Modelling and Policy for Sustainable Development.)

Carbon Literacy Certification recognises students who have met the requirements of the Carbon Literacy Standard, showing an understanding of the carbon costs and impacts of everyday activities, and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis.

Take a look at the images of our prize winners below