The Carceral Geography Working Group are pleased to announce two new prizes to recognise student research. Prizes will be awarded for the Best Undergraduate Dissertation and the Best Postgraduate Paper.
Best Undergraduate Dissertation
A £50 prize will be awarded for the best undergraduate dissertation. The prize-winner will also be invited to feature their writing on the Carceral Geography website.
Nominated dissertations should: be an outstanding theoretical and/or empirical piece of work; be usually 8,000 words or more in length; have been submitted for formal assessment no earlier than 12 months before the prize deadline for a BA/BSc level degree programme; include a full set of references and images (as relevant); in PDF format.
Students need not necessarily be aligned to a geography(-related) discipline but their work should engage with issues of carcerality and/or themes emergent in carceral geographies. We welcome entries from students outside of the UK but the dissertation should be submitted in (or professionally translated to) English.
Dissertations should be nominated by either a research supervisor, department Dissertation Coordinator, Head of Department, or Head of Discipline. 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.
We recognise that the 2023 UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott may have affected submissions in 2023. For the 2024 competition only, we will accept dissertations submitted within 24 months of the submission deadline.
Deadline: 12 July, 2024
For any further details or questions please contact Dr Lara Palombo using the details below.
Submissions to: Dr Lara Palombo (lara.palombo@mq.edu.au)
Best postgraduate paper
A £50 prize will be awarded for excellent postgraduate research. The prize-winner will also be offered one-day registration for the Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG and invited to feature their writing on the Carceral Geography website.
Format: The prize will be awarded for the best research paper. Papers can be based on dissertation/thesis chapters, conference papers, or coursework.
Papers should be no longer than 5000 words.
Papers should include a full set of references and images (as relevant). References and captions do not count towards the word limit.
We expect submissions to be authored solely by the postgraduate student.
Previously published and/or peer-reviewed research is not eligible.
Papers should be submitted by the student in pdf format with an appropriate research supervisor copied into the email.
Eligibility: The prize is open to both current and former postgraduate students at both Masters and PhD level.
We recognise that the 2023 UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott may have affected submissions in 2023. For the 2024 competition only, we will accept papers derived from dissertations submitted within 24 months of the submission deadline.
Former postgraduate students must have submitted a Masters or doctoral dissertation no earlier than 12 months before the prize deadline.
Where an applicant wishes to submit a conference script for consideration, the conference paper should have been delivered no earlier than 12 months before the prize deadline.
Students need not necessarily be aligned to a geography(-related) discipline but their work should engage with issues of carcerality and/or themes emergent in carceral geographies.
Submissions from outside the UK are welcomed. For submissions in languages besides English, we will do our best to find reviewers able to review in the language of submission. Where that proves impossible, we may ask for a translated version.
Deadline: 1 November, 2024
For any further details or questions please contact Dr Lara Palombo using the details below.
Submissions in pdf format to: Dr Lara Palombo (Lara.Palombo@mq.edu.au) (cc: student’s supervisor).