GISRUK prizes

GISRUK promotes scientific excellence by awarding:

  • Best Paper
  • Best Paper by an Early Career Researcher
  • Best Poster
  • The UCL CASA Award for the best paper on Spatial Analysis, in memory of Sinesio Alves Junior

In previous years, the prizes were awarded to:

Leeds (2024)

  • Best Paper: Matt Dennis 
  • Best Paper – ECR: Céline Van Migerode
  • Best Poster: Long Chen
  • CASA: Ruth Nelson


Glasgow (2023)

  • Best Paper: James Todd 
  • Best Paper – ECR: Jess Hepburn
  • Best Poster: Laura Daniela Ramirez Leuro
  • CASA: Jonathan Olsen


Liverpool (2022)

  • Best Paper – ECR: Abigail Hill 
  • Best Presentation: Levi Wolf
  • Best Poster: Emma Hall
  • CASA: Shunya Kimura 

Cardiff (2021)

  • Long Paper: Victoria Houlden
  • Short Paper: Nikki Tanu
  • ECR: Caitlin Hafferty, Jess Hepburn

UCL/ Birbeck (2020)

  • Full Paper: Timna Denwood
  • Short Paper: Chris Lloyd
  • CASA: SM Labib

Newcastle upon Tyne (2019)

  • Full Paper: Polly Hudson 
  • ECR Full paper: Balamurugan Soundararaj
  • Best Poster: Annabel Whipp

Leicester (2018)

  • Best Paper: Matt Dennis
  • Best Poster: Amanda Otly  
  • CASA: Joe Lewis