The FGRG is pleased to offer a first place undergraduate dissertation prize of £75 and two ‘highly commended’ prizes of £35. The prize is open to any currently registered undergraduate student at a UK university and will be awarded to the dissertations that exhibit the best overall contributions to the wide range of issues relating to food geographies.
The dissertations should be of first class standard and be submitted by the student’s Department (Head or nominated representative) and with the student’s knowledge, in electronic format only. Please include a contact email address for the student (post-graduation if necessary). Please note that we can only accept one entry from any department and nominated dissertations should not be submitted for consideration for any other RGS-IBG prizes.
Look out for more details about this year’s submission process in May!
Past winners
2022
- Winning Dissertation: Gaby Vides-Gold, Cambridge University
‘Visceral Temporality: (Not) Eating, Embodiment and Disordered Time’
- Highly Commended: Nanami Tsuchiyama, UCL
‘Can we go further than the ‘food desert’? Understanding urban food insecurity in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa‘
- Highly Commended: Charlotte Hanbury, Bristol University
‘‘From the margins to the mainstream – do vegans have to make a choice between ethical or lite?’‘
2021
- Winning Dissertation: Camy Sandford, University of Edinburgh
Prize winner Camy sat down with Dr Helen Traill and Dr Jack Pickering to discuss her dissertation. You can watch their conversation or download the transcript below:
- Highly Commended: Bethany Lloyd, Lancaster University
- Highly Commended: Leopold Schwarz-Schutte, LSE
‘Salmon, insects, and translation: The agency of salmon feed in environmental governance‘
2020
- Winning Dissertation: Selina Treuherz, University of Sheffield
‘Four seasons of hegemony: an analysis of the embodied and discursive practices which enable gendered, hegemonic structures in elite restaurants’
- Highly Commended: Katya Appleby, University of Edinburgh
‘Volunteer for the Hearty Squirrel – What does that even mean? An exploration into the motivations and values embedded in volunteering at the Hearty Squirrel Cooperative’
- Highly Commended: Andreia Sousa Vieira, Queen Mary University of London
‘The food environment: socio-spatial relationships and their promotion of health through Law No. 11/2017 in Madeira, Portugal‘
2019
- Winning Dissertation: Maria Jaramillo Yanez, King’s College London
‘Agroecological engagement through markets and institutions: a smallholder perspective of an agri-food countermovement’
- Highly Commended: Eliza Hallard, University of Leeds
‘The contributions and constraints of community food growing initiatives for realising food justice’
2018
- Winning Dissertation: Amy-Rose Kasfiner, University of Bristol
‘Hummus is my blood”, Dip in…’
- Runner Up: Caitlin Brown, University of Oxford
‘Wonky veg and Liquid politics:a Contestatory Commerce?’
- Highly Commended: Katherine Smith
‘Cooking up a storm: Renegotiating UK public health discourse around children’s healthy eating within the community’
2017
- Winning Dissertation: Hannah Gillie, University of Cambridge
‘Neighbourhood to Agrihood: Exploring the extent to which urban agriculture can support inclusive redevelopment in Detroit’
- Highly Commended: Louis Rawlings, University of Oxford
‘An exploration of knowledge production through GIS in the context of the UK food desert debate: Constructing the Food Access Radar’
- Highly Commended: Elliot Arthur-Worsop, University of Nottingham
‘Vegetarianism: A New Social Movement within the National Meatscape of Argentina?’
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