Assessments and Partnerships
Assessment
Assessment is undertaken via a variety of means, including practical projects, group presentations, written technical coursework reports, essays, workbooks, and a final research dissertation.
Academic Partnerships
As part of the dissertation module students may have opportunities to collaboratively work with external organisations on dissertation projects. This usually involves meeting in the partner’s office (the academic supervisor is typically present as well), but on occasion students may be allocated a workspace. However, this is not a requirement of any dissertation project or the module and is on a case-by-case basis.
Royal Geographical Society Award Winners
Over the last few years our students have be awarded (and jointly awarded) a variety of Royal Geographical Society Research Group postgraduate prizes for their term 3 dissertation research. In turn this has led to students publishing their work in academic journals.
Student | RGS Award | Year | Degree | Supervisor | GitHub |
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Signe Swarttouw | Planning & Environment | 2021 | Smart Cities & Urban Analytics | Dr Andrew MacLachlan | |
Cheyne Campbell | Planning & Environment | 2020 | Smart Cities & Urban Analytics | Dr Andrew MacLachlan | https://github.com/cheynecampbell/charlotte-pedestrian-safety |
Hussein Mahfouz | GIScience (joint) | 2020 | Smart Cities & Urban Analytics | Dr Elsa Arcuate | https://github.com/Hussein-Mahfouz/Bicycle-Network-Optimization |
Jamie Ser Nee Tan | Population Geography | 2020 | Smart Cities & Urban Analytics | Dr Jens Kandt | https://github.com/jamietansernee/sg-heritage-gentrification |
Greg Slater | Planning & Environment | 2019 | Spatial DataScience & Visualisation | Dr Thomas Oléron-Evans | Scripts in thesis |
Thomas Keel | GIScience (joint ) | 2019 | Spatial DataScience & Visualisation | Dr Huanfa Chen | |
Joshua Yee | Population Geography | 2019 | Smart Cities & Urban Analytics | Dr Adam Dennett | https://jytg17.github.io/Unpacking-the-Nuances-of-Londons-Neighbourhood-Change-Gentrification-Trajectories/ |
Student publications
Yee, J. and Dennett, A., 2021. Stratifying and predicting patterns of neighbourhood change and gentrification: An urban analytics approach. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tran.12522
Mahfouz, H., Arcaute, E. and Lovelace, R., 2021. A Road Segment Prioritization Approach for Cycling Infrastructure. arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.03712. https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03712