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Student Awards 2007

April 24th, 2008

The Research Student Award was awarded to Rosa Sanchis-Guarner (London School of Economics and Political Science) for her research work on “Analysing migrations from a New Economic Geography approach: Some evidence for the Spanish case” – Amaya Vega (National University of Ireland, Galway) received a commendation for her work on “Residential location and travel to work mode choice under central and suburban employment destination patterns”.

Benjamin Dachis (London School of Economics and Political Science) was awarded the Taught Postgraduate Student Award for his paper on “The determinants of airport cargo volume: An empirical analysis of the location of express package and air cargo activity in the United States”.

The Undergraduate Student Award was awarded to Jenny Runnacles (University of Bristol) for her paper on “Why are there so many smokers in China? A Multi-level Analysis of geographical variations in smoking Prevalence.