2025 UGRG Dissertation Prize Winners!

We are pleased to announce this year’s winners and highly commended dissertations!

Congratulations for their outstanding achievement!

Winner: George Buckland, Durham University, Department of Geography.

The dissertation: The gaybourhood never sleeps: Mapping the intergenerational (re)configurations of queer urban space (Manchester’s Gay Village).

Highly-commended: Clara Hinde, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences.

The dissertation: Urban shrinkage in a post-socialist context: The impact of shrinkage and regrowth on residential segregation in the city of Leipzig.

Highly-commended: Eleanor Albin-Clark, The University of Manchester, School of Environment, Education and Development.

The dissertation: Creative mapping the neurodiver(City): a personal account of how autism is entangled with encounters of urban geography.