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Undergraduate Dissertation Prize winner

The winner of the Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for 2016, announced at the recent AGM in Durham, is Tom Sim (University of Leeds), for his submission entitled The environmental impact of European settlement in Australia: influences on a patterned fen ecosystem. The judges were extremely impressed with the volume of work undertaken, commenting that "the originality of the project and the depth with which the student engaged with the wider literature was near professional in standard. Tom should be extremely proud of his achievement".



Tom Sim (University of Leeds)

The abstract of the winning dissertation will be published in a forthcoming issue of Quaternary Newsletter.  The Association wishes to thank the examiners, Ian Candy and Ian Evans, and to acknowledge the continuing support of Catherine Souch and her team at the RGS for the administration of the prize.

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