After receiving the most amount of votes from students, George Foden is the winner of the Human Geography Zone! He has won £500 to spend on more science engagement activities. Here’s what he had to say about his victory:
“Thank you all so much for taking part in the Human Geography Zone, and for asking such interesting and challenging questions over the last three weeks. I am very surprised and excited to have been the winner of this zone, so I want to say a massive thank you for voting for me!
This was a really unique and exciting experience for me to take part in, so I want to say thank you to all the students and teachers who signed up and took part, and to the I’m a Scientist Team who helped all of the sessions run so we could make the most of our time answering questions. I’d also like to say thank you to the other geographers, as I also learned a lot from some of their answers in the chats.
I hope that all the students that took part found it as interesting as I did, as I really enjoyed the challenge of responding to such a wide variety of questions in the live chats and the Ask tab. The experience of having to explain my job to a group of people with such wide interests was really useful for helping to get a better understanding of how to talk about my work in a way that makes sense, and boosted my confidence in talking about a wide range of topics in human geography.
I’d also like to say a big thank you to the funders of the Human Geography Zone, UKRI Research and Innovation, for giving us the opportunity to take part, and to everyone behind the scenes at I’m a Scientist who ran the zone and kept everything going smoothly.
I’m really excited to use the prize money to support my outreach for my research. I hope to use it to run workshops with shelter practitioners and community members in the UK and Malawi to discuss the topics of community resilience and housing reconstruction. This will really help me to make a bigger impact in my fieldwork, so thank you all for giving me this opportunity!
I really enjoyed taking part in the Human Geography Zone, and I hope many of you enthusiastic students join us in the world of geography in the future. Stay curious and keep asking questions, that’s what good scientists do!
Thank you again!”
George Foden