Royal Geographical Society Awards

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The RGS-IBG Annual Awards are handed out at the AGM and Award evening in June.

 Back in 2008, I was honoured to receive the Ordnance Survey Award for excellence in secondary geography teaching.
This year's recipients were revealed earlier today, and they are, as always, very deserving. There are two recipients of the OS Award as always:

Rob Chambers has been supporting teachers through various means, GeoBytes website, SLN, Facebook groups etc for many years

Jennifer Monk has been very active on social media, and is also one of the organisers of the splendid TMGeographyIcons, and also co-founding GeogChat.

There are also some other medals and awards of note, of personal interest.
I was reading Fiona Reynolds book yesterday as it happens, and she has also been into my school to do a talk.
Royal Medal – Patron’s Medal
  • Dame Fiona Reynolds For her contribution to environmental protection, conservation and the preservation of the British landscape
I've used Missing Maps many times and used it in my teaching and have the app on my phone.

Cuthbert Peek Award
  • Paul Knight – Missing Maps For advancing geographical knowledge through mapping in remote areas, with the application of contemporary methods
Dervla Murphy's travel writing has been popular for many decades, going back to when I picked up her early books in the mobile library.

Ness Award
  • Dervla Murphy For the popularisation of geography through travel literature
Rebecca Solnit has been featured on this blog many times for her writing, and also for her trio of Atlases of New York, New Orleans and San Francisco. She has produced some wonderful writing, and remains a personal inspiration.

Fordham Award
  • Rebecca Solnit For distinguished contributions to the field of cartobibliography
Follow the link to see all the award winners in full. Congratulations to all the Medal winners, and to all those who were nominated, and will never know how close they came... 

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