Marion Newbigin Prize
The Marion Newbigin Prize is in memory of Marion Newbigin, an early and extremely long-term editor of the journal who did so much to energise geographical scholarship in, of and from Scotland. The prize is awarded annually for an article published in the journal during the previous year that has made an ‘outstanding contribution’.
See also the Editorial about this award found here (Scottish Geographical Journal, 139 (3-4).
Marion Newbigin Prize 2023
The Editorial Team and Board of the Scottish Geographical Journal are delighted to select Patrick Nunn’s paper, “First a wudd, and syne a sea: postglacial coastal change of Scotland recalled in ancient stories” for the Marion Newbigin Prize for 2023.
We are nominating this article on the basis of originality, novelty and because it represents a fascinating interdisciplinary piece of work. The paper focuses on stories of coastal emergence and submergence drawn from historical sources but authenticated through science-derived models of coastal change. The stories are taken from historical chronicles, documenting oral traditions/ narratives, and are interesting in and of themselves, but the author’s attempts to date the stories and validate them geologically render this work appealing for a broad audience across physical and cultural, and historical geography.