The Robin Flowerdew Prize for Best Postgraduate Paper was awarded to EORC doctoral student Tamilwai Kolowa

The Robin Flowerdew Prize for Best Postgraduate Paper was awarded to EORC doctoral student Tamilwai Kolowa

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November 27, 2025

At the 2025 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, the Robin Flowerdew Prize for Best Postgraduate Paper was awarded to our PhD student Tamilwai Kolowa for his presentation “Is Germany experiencing urban or suburban growth? Contrasting three different urbanisation classifications“. His research revealed how different urban gradient classifications can change our understanding of population growth in Germany, offering valuable methodological insights (see e.g. here: https://remote-sensing.org/new-publication-on-whether-germany-is-experiencing-urban-or-suburban-growth/). Congratulations!

Tamilwai is a Junior Researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden, Germany and is pursuing his doctoral thesis at our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) of the Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg. The working title of his doctoral thesis is ‘Understanding the patterns of small-area urban and suburban population change’.

 

 

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