We are delighted to share that the joint winners of the IDPR/Development Geographies Research Group (DevGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (RGS-IBG) Early Career Prize have now been announced!
The Development Geographies Research Group (DevGRG) is one of the research groups of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). The group works to promote and develop the work that their members do to further knowledge and understanding of development geographies. This prize is given to the best paper presented at a DevGRG sponsored session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference. The winners receive the chance to work with the editors of International Development Planning Review (IDPR), Dr Dan Hammett & Dr Glyn Williams, to develop their paper for publication, undergoing a rigorous peer review process.
Joint winners (and judges comments):
Marina Louzada Alves, Maria Paula Albernaz, and Gabriele Pinto “Exploring Opportunities for Local Populations: Mapping Industrial Remnants in Rio de Janeiro’s Railway Suburban Areas”.
This paper was praised as a “very interesting project with huge potential to develop compelling insights into the impacts of deindustrialisation on local populations in Rio de Janeiro”.
Dianne Wakonyo, Monika Kuffer, Dana Thomson, and Nicera Wanjiru “He Who Makes the Map Tells the Story”.
This paper was noted as having a “fascinating focus on community mappers” and with substantial potential to develop new insights into the tensions between, and role of power dynamics for, formal and community-based mapping approaches.
Amrita Dasgupta “Drawing the Water-Human Relation in Ostracised Occupations of Deltaic Ecologies of the Indian Ocean”. (Highly Commended)
This paper was commended for creativity and innovation in methods and approaches while working with ostracised communities in Bangladesh.
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