- Undergraduate Awards Winner – Larissa Towey – Leeds University
- Masters Winner – Jason Dalrymple – UCL
- Masters Runner Up – Georgia Hayes – Leeds University
Undergraduate Awards Summary
Larissa Towey

- Common Mental Disorders (CMDs), co-occurring conditions of depression and anxiety, affect nearly 1 in 6 people in England.
- This work sought to identify spatial variations in CMD prevalence, understand the extent to which socioeconomic factors influence CMDs and subsequently explain spatial variation in England
- Socioeconomic factors such as rates of unemployment, ethnic minorities and limiting long-term illnesses, were analysed against outcome data at aggregate Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Middle Super Output Area level

Masters Awards Summary
Runner up


- This research explored patterns of violent crime in London between the years 2011 and 2019
- Temporality, seasonality plus other spatial patterns were explored through analyses of police recorded and other publicly available data
- Analyses conducted at borough and LSOA level were contrasted with patterns observed in the Index of Multiple Deprivation and other variables
- Analyses conducted at borough and LSOA level were contrasted with patterns observed in the Index of Multiple Deprivation and other variables
- Effective use of the gini coefficient


Winner


- This research sought to examine the impact Deliveroo has had (and is having) on the restaurant industry through the activities of one UK national restaurant chain
- The work investigated the interplay between catchment areas, as well as considering how spatial modelling can be applied to revenue allocation/estimation
- Measuring ‘impact’ was achieved through the use of GIS, probability analysis, buffering algorithms and the manipulation of postcode data to model future revenue

