91茄子 Small Research Grants
Awards of up to 拢3,500 to early career researchers for original desk or field-based research in any area of geography.
About the Award
Each year several grants of up to 拢3,500 are given to early career researcher individuals (up to 10 years post PhD). One grant of up to 拢3,500 will be awarded from the 20th International Geographical Congress Fund. The Jasmin Leila Award听and the听Rob Potter Award听will be given as a supplement to projects supported under the scheme, or as independent awards.
Applicants are expected to hold a PhD at the time of applying,听must be affiliated with a UK Higher Education Institution and must be Fellows or Members of the Society. These awards are only available to individuals.听At risk academic geographers hosted at UK institutions through programmes such as 听are eligible to apply.
Deadline: 3 February
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All prospective grant applicants are encouraged to read our Advice and Resources pages, which include more information about the grants programme, its conditions, how to apply for a grant and what is expected if your application is successful. Please read this information carefully听and send your application, or any enquiries, by email to grants@rgs.org.
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Previous recipients
2024
Dr Antonio Allegretti (Lancaster University) Truly global. Reterritorializing the Italian 'borgo' in Southern Italy
Dr Mahsa Alami Fariman (Coventry University) Undoing Open City; The Demolition of Coventry鈥檚 City Arcade and Bull Yard
Dr Ben Gowland (University of Oxford) The UK Foreign Office鈥檚 Information Research Department and the Spatial-Politics of British Cold War Neo-imperialism
Dr Catherine Oliver (Lancaster University) Narrating The Historical Geographies of Environmental Change through the Personal Archives of Birdwatchers
Dr Nathan Salvidge (University of Reading) Investigating the role of smartphone technologies and digital platforms in (re)shaping young people鈥檚 everyday livelihood mobilities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Dr Hannah Fair (University of Oxford) Situating Pests: Impacts, Disgust, Expertise and Responsibility (SPIDER)
Dr Thomas Kelly (Queen Mary University of London) Arctic peatland C loss on long timescales and the effect of legacy on modern greenhouse gas emissions
Dr Anna Jackman (University of Reading) States of Precarity
Dr Alexander Manby (University of Oxford) Uncovering hidden histories of internationalism: co-curating and digitising the archives of Congress of World Hmong People (CWHP)
Dr Thomas Chudley (Durham University) Assessing interconnected crevasse hydrology on the Greenland Ice Sheet
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2023
Dr Alessandro Boussalem (University of St Andrews). 'Italian-Maghrebi: identity, race and place in Milan'
Dr Rachel Carr (Newcastle University).听'Assessing Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) hazard and risk in听the Himalayan water towers'
Dr Joanna Kocsis (Newcastle University). 'Neighbourhood (Geo)Politics: Interactions between global and local factors affecting youth resistance in Latin America'
Dr Samuel Mitchell (University of Bristol). 'Ash in the Agean: impact of marine volcanoes on ecosystem and agriculture'
Dr Andrew Papworth (University of York). 'Land grabs on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua: challenges and solutions for the Rama indigenous group'
Dr Xuerong Sun (University of Exeter). '3D Phytoplankton Models'
Dr Nina Willment (University of York).听鈥業nked Up, Marked Out鈥�: Exploring the body as a fieldsite'
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2022
Dr Alex Hastie (Coventry University). 'The digital geographies of film and cinema: access, algorithm, and interface'
Dr Samuel Berlin (University of Plymouth). 'Atmospheres of (counter)terrorism in European cities'
Dr Adri谩n Oyaneder (University of Exeter). 'Northern Chile's Chaku and Caycu the highest altitude desert kites in the world'
Dr James Riding (Newcastle University).听'Places where memories reside: exploring memories of war in sites of conscience'
Dr Amy Barron (University of Manchester). 'Approaching middle age through non-representational theories'
Dr Rebecca Senior (Durham University). 'Investigating the microclimate niche of threatened Omani plant species in the Western Hajar Mountains'
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2021
Dr Maddy Thompson (Keele University).听'Space of ADHD: a study into women with ADHD'听
Dr Alistair Anderson (University of Nottingham).听'Investigating the Geography of Antibiotic- and Vaccine-related Attitudes in Britain'听
Dr Adrian Dye (University of York).听'Glacier Response to Extreme Temperature Events in the Arctic'听
Dr Mark Holton (University of Plymouth).听'Encountering coastal youth citizenship'听
Dr Stephanie Denning (Coventry University). 'The rise of Christian social franchises: responding to UK poverty'听
Dr Martin Zebracki (University of Leeds).听'RESOURCE: Re-writing Spaces of Injustice under Radical Social Change'听
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2020
Dr Jake Hodder (University of Nottingham).听'Internationalising race: the League of Nations and the struggle for racial equality, 1919-1939'听
Dr Jenni Sherriff (Royal Holloway University of London).听'A preliminary environmental framework for Early Pleistocene hominin expansion in the Southern Caucasus'
Dr Lorena Gazzotti (University of Cambridge).听'Containment beyond deportation. Governing migrant children in the Spanish enclave of Melilla'
Dr Matthew Tillotson (University of Leicester).听'Telegraphic borderlands. Wires, time and longitude in British imperial boundary'
Dr Tory Milner (University of Huddersfield).听'Colonisation of terrestrial vegetation in an intermittent river: diversity responses to increased drying'
Dr Wiesam Essa (University of Manchester).听'Influence of the impervious surface intensity change on land surface temperature: Case study of the Gaza Strip'听
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2019
Dr Christopher Darvill (University of Manchester).听'Geomorphic history of the Falklands stone runs'
Dr Ruth Slatter (University of Hull). 'Spaces of nineteenth-century congregational faith: James Smetham (1821-1889) and Methodism in Stoke Newington'
Dr Neil Simcock (Liverpool John Moores University). 'Energy poverty in the private-rented sector: exploring the drivers of vulnerability via the lived-experiences of tenants'
Dr Amber Martin-Woodhead (Coventry University). 'Making space: the geographies of minimalist practices and sustainable consumption'
Dr Anna Bourne (Queen Mary University of London).听'Creating a chronological framework for linking climate, environmental change and human colonisation of the South Pacific'
Dr Nicholas Girkin (University of Nottingham). 'Hot peat: assessing the temperature sensitivity of tropical peat greenhouse gas fluxes and decomposition'
Dr Elizabeth Hurrell (University of Central Lancashire).听'Understanding and evaluating the sedimentary DNA听signal from lakes'
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2018
Dr Nick Cutler (Newcastle University). 鈥楾ephra transformations: decoding the record of past volcanic eruptions鈥�
Dr Antonia Law (Keele University). 鈥榃hat can contemporary proglacial lakes tell us about the early stages of Holocene lake ontogeny?鈥�
Dr Alessa听Geiger (University of Glasgow). 鈥楢 multi-method approach to constrain Patagonian ice sheet geometry along its Pacific margin during the last glacial period鈥�
Dr Nadia Von Benzon (Lancaster University). 鈥楻ural spaces of youth reform: agricultural landscapes of punishment and citizenship 1850-1967鈥�
Dr Kim Ward (University of Plymouth). 鈥楽owing the seeds of heritage: examining the preservation of bio-cultural heritage through the development of community seed-saving initiatives in conflict-affected zones鈥�
Dr Rebecca Collins (University College London). 鈥楪rowing up green: young adults鈥� everyday sustainabilities after ten+ years of Ashton Hayes鈥檚 鈥楪oing Carbon Neutral鈥� project鈥櫶�
Dr Sophie Cranston (Loughborough University). 鈥樷�淚nvisible鈥� international students: British migrant children attending UK universities鈥櫶�
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2017
Dr Daniel Schillereff听(King's College London). 'Quantifying long-term natural and anthropogenic phosphorus fluxes using Holocene lake sediment profiles from southwest Norway'
Dr Matthew Baddock听(Loughborough University). 'Constraining dust emissions from a globally significant dust source'
Dr Rachel Carr听(Newcastle University). 'Evaluating the interaction between ice loss and surface debris characteristics on Annapurna South Glacier, Nepal'
Dr Suzanne Beech听(Ulster University). 'Experiencing the international higher education recruitment fair: the role of geography in selling a UK higher education'
Dr Colin Lorne听(University of Manchester). 'Spatial politics and the English NHS: examining how global policy mobilties shape local healthcare reform'
Dr Charlotte Veal听(University of Southampton). 'Choreographing military bodies: aeromobilities, embodied geopolitics, and dance-based combat training with the British Parachute Regiment' (Jasmin Leila Award)
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2016
Dr Aga Nowak听(University of Sheffield). 'Investigation of the export of glacially derived carbon to downstream terrestrial and marine environments of the High Artic'
Dr Tom Holt听(Aberystwyth University). 'The influence of glacier structure, reflectivity and surface temperature on turbulent energy fluxes'
Dr Tom Bradwell听(University of Stirling). 'Does lichenometry really work? Evaluating growth-rate variability in yellow-green Rhizocarpon linchens'
Dr Philipp Horn听(Open University). 'Peri-urban land management: Integrating indigenous rights and a human rights-based approach in La Paz, Bolivia' (20 IGC)
Dr George Adamson听(King's College London). 'El Ni帽o-Southern Oscillation and geographies of knowledge'
Dr Lucy Jackson听(University of Liverpool). 'Bodies that travel and the mobile state: state sovereignty and control of fleshy politics'
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2015
Dr Rachel Carr听(University of Newcastle). 'Evaluating the impact of a proglacial lake and debris cover on ice loss from Russell Glacier, west Greenland'
Dr Amy Donovan听(University of Cambridge). 'Science diplomacy in North Korea' (20 IGC)
Dr Lorenza Fontana听(University of Sheffield). 'Indigenous voices: assessing the impact of 鈥楩ree, Prior and Informed Consultations鈥� among Amazon鈥檚 communities' (20 IGC)
Dr Andrew Hardy听(University of Aberystwyth). 'Mapping malaria breeding habitats using low cost UAVs'听
Dr Naho Mirumachi听(King's College London). 'Investigating the link between water, conflict and security'
Dr Lizzie Richardson听(University of Cambridge). 'Creative workplaces: the changing geographies of self-employment in the UK'
Dr Allan Watson听(Staffordshire University). 'Knowledge sharing and networking in regionally-scaled creative economies: the economic geography of north west England鈥檚 musical economy' (Jasmin Leila Award)