A small number of grants and bursaries are available to support young researchers from Ecuador, Indonesia and Uganda being involved in field programmes.

Bursaries of up to £2,000 are available to teams or individuals undertaking field research in these countries. The fieldwork & research should make a contribution to the Millennium Development goals relating to "ensuring environmental sustainability", for example in the areas of:

  sustainable development
  reversing the loss of environmental resources and biodiversity
  access to safe water 

Applicants must be currently enrolled in, or within five years of completion, of an undergraduate degree in geography or another of the field sciences from a university either in their own country (Ecuador, Indonesia or Uganda) or abroad.

Applications from multi-national teams will also be considered provided at least a third of the participants are from the country where the research is being undertaken.

We run a cycle for applications to the bursary programme with the most recent round closing on the 30th June 2008.  Full details and an application form can be downloaded form the link on the right.  If you have missed this deadline and have a proposal which you believe may be of interest to us, please do contact the Society via Shane Winser s.winser@rgs.org to
discuss your work. 

The closing date for the next round of bursaries will be announced later in 2008.

  Bursary application forms are now available from the Bursaries link on the right. If you would like to apply, please read the criteria given on the right.

  Details of further funding opportunities for international students taking up postgraduate studies in the UK can be found in the document on the right.