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Geographical Society completes the Three Peaks Challenge
The University’s Geographical Society have completed the Three Peaks Challenge, raising over £1700 for Cancer Research. The winning team scaled the three highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales in 23 hrs 54 mins. Delayed by 24 hrs owing to blizzards on Ben Nevis, the three student teams finally set out at 7am on Tuesday 24 May to climb and descend through a total 5442 m and drive 473 miles. The participants were:
Kath Booles, English Literature & RPE BA
Tom Baldock (Support Driver), Geography BSc
Tom Bryant (Support Driver), Geography BSc
John Cammies, Creative Writing BA
Dale Cox, Geography BSc
Robyn Fowler, Geography BSc
James Frankland, Geography BSc
Jonathan Goddard, Geography BSc
James Griffin, Psychology BSc
Emily Henderson, English Literature & Geography BA
Jodi Jackson, Geography BSc
Matt Jestico, Geography BSc
Richard Lawes, Geography BSc
Lizzie Masheder, Geography BSc
Rob Pryke, Geography BSc
Becky Rider, Geography BSc
Jason Stopps, Geography MPhil
Sam Townley (Support Driver), Geography BSc
Luke Walton, Geography BSc
Lewis Welsh, Geography BSc
There are a number of Just Giving accounts for this challenge with money still being donated. If you would like to contribute please use the Just Giving site for Becky Rider (www.justgiving.com/Rebecca-Rider).
Congratulations to All! |
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 Dr Tim Hall wins Geographical Association award
Each year the Geographical Association presents an Award for Excellence in Leading Geography. The 2010/11 recipient is our own Dr Tim Hall for his article in the journal Geography on ‘Where the money is: the geographies of organised crime’. |
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Zelianne Yeates wins UK Biogeography dissertation prize
Gloucestershire student Zelianne Yeates has won the Biogeography Research Group Prize from the Royal Geographical Society (RGS).
Zeli’s dissertation, ‘The evolutionary responses of native species to non-natives species: facing ecological challenge and opportunity’, was supervised by Dr Anne Goodenough and judged by a panel led by Dr Christopher Joyce (Brighton). The panel commented “The dissertation was a brilliant, challenging and contemporary essay that presented complex concepts and innovative ideas with great clarity... it was an exceptional dissertation”.
In a year that has seen the highest ever number of entries for RGS awards, Zeli’s construction of the best 2009 Biogeographical dissertation in the UK is a substantial achievement. |
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 University of Gloucestershire students featured in national publication
'I'm a Geographer' is an 8-page national publication by the Royal Geographic Society, featuring more than a dozen interviews with Geography graduates who describe how their careers have developed using geography.
Former University of Gloucestershire students Chloe Whitcomb, Llew Hancock and Emma Alcorn are featured - click the front cover to read more. |
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Llew Hancock (BSc, 2008) constructs second-placed Geomorphology dissertation in UK
 Gloucestershire Geography graduate Llew Hancock (1st Class Honours, BSc 2008) has achieved second place in the British Society for Geomorphology’s (BSG) Marjorie Sweeting Dissertation prize. This award is given to best undergraduate geomorphological dissertation undertaken at a UK university.
His study ‘Palaeohydraulic reconstruction of a glacial outburst event using HEC-RAS in the Ferpecle Valley, Val d'Herens, Switzerland’ was supervised by Dr David Milan and judged by a panel led by Prof. Andreas Lang (Liverpool)
Llew is currently working as a Graduate Engineer in Fluvial Geomorphology and Modelling with the global construction group ARUP. |
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Richard Jones (BSc, 2008) produces second best Geography dissertation in the UK
 Gloucestershire graduate Richard Jones (1st Class Honours, BSc 2008) has been extended a special commendation from the Royal Geographical Society in connection with the Alfred Steers Essay prize. This recognises that Richard produced the second best undergraduate dissertation in a UK Geography department.
Richard’s dissertation, ‘The effect of altitude on lichenometry and dendrochronology dating methods at an intra-glacial foreland scale: Tsidjiore Nouve, Switzerland’, was supervised by Dr Phillip Toms and judged by Professors Ian Simmons (Durham) and Allan Williams (London Metropolitan).
Richard has since gone on to achieve a distinction on the MSc in Quaternary Science at Royal Holloway University of London. |