Archived News 2019
Summer Graduation 2019
Student prize winners were as follows:
Avneesh Bains - William Kirk Prize (Best Human Geography Dissertation)
William Baker - John H Paterson Prize (Geography second year student achieving the highest mark for their dissertation proposal)
Claire Durant - Norman Pye Prize (Final Year student of merit in Geography)
Lee Haverson - Bruce May Dissertation Prize (best physical geography dissertation by a final year student)
Brandon Mayuga - Head of School Prize for Geography (best third year student that has made the greatest contribution to Geography)
Robert Newbould - Norman Pye Prize (Final Year student of merit in Geography)
Charlotte Peet - David Turnock Memorial Prize (BA Geography student exhibiting the best overall performance in the final year examinations)
Stuart Sopp - Norman Pye Prize (Final Year student of merit in Geography)
Joshua Strange - David Turnock Memorial Prize (BA Geography student exhibiting the best overall performance in the final year examinations)
Jarvis Suslowicz - College of Science and Engineering Faculty Prize (Best second year in Geography)
Undergraduate Careers Day
Speakers included:
Lauren Cresswell, Civil Service
Nigel Swan, Selfridges & Co
Chris Paddock, Hatch Regeneris
Bruce Lascelles, Arcadis
Clare Hadley, Ordnance Survey
Laia Canadell Gallart, Environment Agency
Simon Bentley, Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
Alex Cumming, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
John Millington, CNOOC International
Conor Farell, Golder
Mike Kingston & Kirstin Bylholt, Gardline
Charlotte Fraser, Schlumberger
Giles Miller, Natural History Museum
Jenny Inwood, UK Gov. Education
New Students Union Sports Officer
William Sutton Prize
The award was judged and presented by the AoU Director Biljana Savic. Jess is a PhD researcher working on ‘Self renovating neighbourhoods as an alternative to gentrification or decline’ supervised by Professor Loretta Lees and Prefessor Gavin Brown. You can follow the highly commended work by Jericho Road Solutions on twitter @JerichoJess.
Postgraduate Research Day
Thanks for all their efforts and everyone’s support including the judges Professor Sue Page, Dr Angela Last, Dr Rich Walker, Dr Marc Reichow and Dr Andrew Miles.
Well done to our PGR students for their high-quality talks and posters at the PGR Research Day and the prize-winners:
Tom Newman, Geography Talk Prize
Laura Ward, Sylvester Bradley Talk Prize (Geology)
These prizes provide support for Laura and Tom to attend a conference of their choice.
Cara Wells, Geology Poster Prize
Tia Ndu, Geography Poster Prize
Max Rayner, Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) Prize for Interdisciplinary Research