The Newbiggin Prize
Named in memory of Dr. Marion Isabel Newbigin (1869-1934), editor of the Scottish Geographical Magazine from 1902 to 1934, this prize is currently awarded to the author of the best paper published in the Scottish Geographical Journal during the previous year.

2007   Dr. Sven Lukas and Dr Douglas Benn, University of St Andrews
  Retreat Dynamics of Younger Dryas Glaciers in the far NW Scottish Highlands Reconstructed from Moraine Sequences. (SGJ v.122 no. 4 2006 pp.308-325).
2006   Dr. Emma Wainwright, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Brunel University College, Uxbridge
  Dundee's Jute Mills and Factories: Spaces of Production, Surveillance and Discipline. (SGJ v.121 no.2 2005 pp.121-140)
2005   Professors Hugh Clout and Iain Stevenson, University College and City University, London
    Jules Sion, Alan Grant Ogilvie, and the College des Ecossais in Montpellier : a Network of Geographers (SGJ v.120 no.3 2004 pp.181-198)
2004   W.T.S. Gould and R.I. Woods, University of Liverpool
    Population Geography and HIV / AIDS : the challenge of a "wholly exceptional disease" (SGJ v.119 no.3 2003 pp.265-281)

2003   Caitrona n Laoire, University College, Cork
    Discourses of Nation Among Migrants from Northern Ireland : Irishness, Britishness and the Space In-Between (SGJ v.118 no.3 2002 pp.183-199)

2002   Hamish Chevenix-Trench and Dr. Lorna J. Philip
    Community and conservation land ownership in Highland Scotland : a common focus in a changing context (SGJ v.117 no.2 2001 pp.139-156)

2001   Professor Michael Heffernan
    Professor Penck's bluff : geography, espionage and hysteria in World War I (SGJ v.116 no.4 2000 pp.267-282)

1982   W.H. Keith Turner, Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Dundee
    Flax Weaving in Scotland in the Early 19th Century (SGM v.99 no.1 Apr.1983 pp.16-30)

1978   Huw R. Jones
    Modern Emigration from Scotland to Canada (SGM v.95 no.1 Apr.1979 pp.4-12)

1977   James A.T. Young, Lecturer in Geography, University of Edinburgh
    The Landforms of Upper Strathspey (SGM v.94 no.2 Sept.1978 pp.76-94)

1971   Mrs. Eve M. Soulsby, Research Scholar, Department of Geography, University of St. Andrews
    Changing Sex Ratios in the Scottish Border Counties (SGM v.88 no.1 Apr.1972 pp.5-18)

1962   James B. Cruickshank
    The Black Isle : a land use study (SGM v.77 no.1 Apr.1961 pp.3-14)

1961   J.D.W. McQueen
    Milk Surpluses in Scotland (SGM v.77 no.2 Sept.1961 pp.91-105)

1960   Robert W. Galloway
    Solifluction in Scotland (SGM v.77 no.2 Sept.1961 pp.75-87)

1959   R. Goodwin
    Some Physical and Social Factors in the Evolution of a Mining Landscape (SGM v.75 no.1 Apr.1959 pp.3-17)

1949   Andrew T.A. Learmonth
    The Population of Skye (SGM v.66 no.2 Sept.1950 pp.77-103)

1948   Mrs. Isobel M.L. Robertson
    The Head-Dyke : a fundamental line in Scottish geography (SGM v.65 no.1 Apr.1949 pp.6-19)

1944   Dr. Catherine P. Snodgrass
    Recent Population Changes in Scotland (SGM v.60 no.2 Sept.1944 pp.33-38)

1939   Arthur Geddes, University of Edinburgh
    The Burghs of Laigh and Brae (SGM v.61 no.2 Sept.1945 pp.38-45)

1938   Andrew C. O'Dell, Birkbeck College, London
    A Geographical Examination of the Development of Scottish Railways (SGM v.55 no.3 May.1939 pp.129-148)