Relaunching the Marion Newbigin Prize

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Figure 1. First announcement of the Newbigin Prize (Source: Anon, 1937, pp. 270–271).

Table 1. List of past Marion Newbigin Prize award-winning authors and their articles (Source: modified from https://www.rsgs.org/newbigin-prize, accessed 11/07/2023).

	Year of award	Awardee(s)	Article
1.	1938	Andrew C O’Dell	Andrew C. O'Dell (1939) A geographical examination of the development of Scottish railways: Newbigin memorial essay, 1938, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 55:3, 129-148. doi:10.1080/00369223908735116
2.	1939	Arthur Geddes	Arthur Geddes D. ès L. Ph.D (1938) The changing landscape of the Lothians, 1600–1800, as revealed by old estate plans, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 54:3, 129-143. doi:10.1080/14702543808555322
3.	1944	Catherine P Snodgrass	Catherine P. Snodgrass M.A. Ph.D. (1944) Recent population changes in Scotland, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 60:2, 33-38. doi:10.1080/14702544408553789
4.	1948	Isobel M L Robertson	Isobel M. L. Robertson (1949) The head-Dyke : A fundamental line in Scottish Geography: Newbigin prize essay, 1948, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 65:1, 6-19. doi:10.1080/00369224908735398
5.	1949	Andrew T A Learmonth	A. T. A. Learmonth (1950) The population of Skye, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 66:2, 77-103. doi:10.1080/00369225008735447
6.	1959	R Goodwin	R. Goodwin (1959) Some physical and social factors in the evolution of a mining landscape, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 75:1, 3-17. doi:10.1080/00369225908735735
7.	1960	Robert W Galloway	R. W. Galloway (1961) Solifluction in Scotland, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 77:2, 75-87. doi:10.1080/00369226108735827
8.	1961	J D W McQueen	J. D. W. McQueen (1961) Milk surpluses in Scotland, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 77:2, 93-105, doi:10.1080/00369226108735829
9.	1962	James B Cruickshank	James B. Cruickshank (1961) The Black Isle, Ross-Shire. A land use study, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 77:1, 3-14. doi:10.1080/00369226108735816
10.	1971	Eve M Soulsby	Eve M. Soulsby (1972) Changing sex ratios in the Scottish border counties, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 88:1, 5-18. doi:10.1080/00369227208736204
11.	1974	A MacGregor Hutcheson et al.	Hance D. Smith, Alexander Hogg & A. MacGregor Hutcheson (1976) Scotland and offshore oil: The developing impact, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 92:2, 75-91. doi:10.1080/00369227608736334
12.	1977	James A T Young	J. A. T. Young (1975) Ice wastage in glen Feshie, Inverness-shire, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 91:2, 91-101. doi:10.1080/00369227508736307
13.	1978	Huw R Jones	Huw R. Jones (1979) Modern emigration from Scotland to Canada, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 95:1, 4-12. doi:10.1080/00369227908736412
14.	1982	W H Keith Turner	W. H. K. Turner (1982) The development of flax-spinning mills in Scotland 1787–1840, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 98:1, 4-15. doi:10.1080/00369228208736510
15.	1991	Alex Gibson	A. Gibson (1990) Territorial continuity and the administrative division of Lochtayside, 1769, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 106:3, 174-185. doi:10.1080/00369229018736796
16.	1992	Colin K Ballantyne	Colin K. Ballantyne (1991) Holocene geomorphic activity in the Scottish Highlands, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 107:2, 84-98. doi:10.1080/00369229118736815
17	1993	J Sheail	John Sheail (1992) Opencast coal working and the perceived threat to agriculture in post-war Scotland, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 108:2, 104-112. doi:10.1080/00369229218736852
18	1994	Lindsey J McEwen	Lindsey J. McEwen (1993) The magnitude and frequency of extreme rainfall within north-east Scotland over an historical timespan, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 109:2, 75-86. doi:10.1080/00369229318736882
19	1995	Matthew R Bennett	Matthew R. Bennett (1994) Morphological evidence as a guide to deglaciation following the Loch Lomond Readvance: A review of research approaches and models, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 110:1, 24-32. doi:10.1080/00369229418736904
20	1996	Morag Bell	Morag Bell (1995) Edinburgh and empire. Geographical science and citizenship for a ‘new’ age, ca.1900, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 111:3, 139-149. doi:10.1080/00369229518736956
21.	1997	Fiona Smith	Fiona M. Smith (1996) Housing tenures in transformation: questioning geographies of ownership in eastern Germany, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 112:1, 3-10. doi:10.1080/00369229618736972
22.	1998	Nigel Thrift	Nigel Thrift (1997) Cities without modernity, cities with magic, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 113:3, 138-149. doi:10.1080/00369229718737007
23.	2000	John Briggs & Davis Mwamfupe	John Briggs & Davis Mwamfupe (1999) The changing nature of the peri-urban zone in Africa: Evidence from Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, Scottish Geographical Journal, 115:4, 269-282. doi:10.1080/00369229918737070
24.	2002	Hamish Chevenix-Trench & Lorna J Philip	Hamish Chenevix-Trench & Lorna J. Philip (2001) Community and conservation land ownership in highland Scotland: A common focus in a changing context, Scottish Geographical Journal, 117:2, 139-156. doi:10.1080/00369220118737117
25.	2003	Caitriona ni Laoire	Caitríona Ní Laoire (2002) Discourses of nation among migrants from Northern Ireland: Irishness, Britishness and the spaces in-between, Scottish Geographical Journal, 118:3, 183-199. doi:10.1080/00369220218737146
26.	2004	William T S Gould & Robert I Woods	W.T.S. Gould & R.I. Woods (2003) Population geography and HIV/AIDS: The challenge of a ‘wholly exceptional disease’, Scottish Geographical Journal, 119:3, 265-281. doi:10.1080/00369220318737178
27.	2005	Hugh Clout & Iain Stevenson	Hugh Clout & Iain Stevenson (2004) Jules Sion, Alan Grant Ogilvie and the college des Ecossais in Montpellier: A network of geographers, Scottish Geographical Journal, 120:3, 181-198. doi:10.1080/00369220418737202
28.	2006	Emma Wainwright	Emma M. Wainwright (2005) Dundee's Jute mills and factories: Spaces of production, surveillance and discipline, Scottish Geographical Journal, 121:2, 121-140. doi:10.1080/00369220518737227
29.	2007	Sven Lukas & Douglas Benn	Sven Lukas & Douglas I. Benn (2006) Retreat dynamics of Younger Dryas glaciers in the far NW Scottish Highlands reconstructed from moraine sequences, Scottish Geographical Journal, 122:4, 308-325. doi:10.1080/14702540701235142

Figure 2. Front pages of Newbigin Prize Essays (O’Dell, 1939; Robertson, 1949).

Anon. (1937). Proceedings of the Royal Scottish geographical society. Scottish Geographical Magazine, 53(4), 270–272. doi:10.1080/00369223708735068

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O’Dell, A. C. (1939). A geographical examination of the development of Scottish railways: Newbigin memorial essay, 1938. Scottish Geographical Magazine, 55(3), 129–148. doi:10.1080/00369223908735116

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Robertson, I. M. L. (1949). The head-Dyke: A fundamental line in Scottish Geography: Newbigin prize essay, 1948. Scottish Geographical Magazine, 65(1), 6–19. doi:10.1080/00369224908735398

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