Land Rover 'Go Beyond' Bursary: Go beyond your limits and boundaries

The Land Rover ‘Go Beyond’ Bursary, run by the Society on behalf of Land Rover, offers funding  and the use of a 110 Defender vehicle.

The award is aimed at those who want to take a journey beyond their limits and boundaries, that offers challenges for the team and for which a Land Rover Defender 110 is an integral part of the expedition.

Your journey may connect you with schools, local communities or projects but, whatever its aim, the team will be expected to inspire and engage others, both from the field and on return.

A bursary of £15,000 is available and in addition applicants can apply for a discretionary fund of up to £15,000 to support essential expedition related costs.

Deadline: The 2012 deadline has passed. The 2013 deadline is to be confirmed

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Land Rover 'Go Beyond' Bursary guidelines (PDF) - Guidelines for this year's Award are currently being updated
Research Ethics and Code of Practice (PDF)

 Going Beyond: Advice from the Field (PDF) offers tips on expedition planning, as well as sharing highlights and images of life in the field by the four teams who have cumulatively travelled across five continents and more than 100,000kms supported by the Land Rover bursary to ‘Go Beyond’.

This year's recipients

 2012: ‘Pushing the Limits’ are the recipients of this year's RGS-IBG Land Rover ‘Go Beyond Bursary’.

Led by disabled adventurer Andy Campbell along with his two team members, David Gill and Steve Locke, the team will travel from the UK to The Black Sea.

Their aim is to widen our understanding and enjoyment of the geography on our doorstep. The team will demonstrate that the exploration of a diversity of landscapes is within everyone’s reach, whatever their ability.

Beginning their journey in June 2012, they will travel through Europe following the route of the River Danube and finish in early September 2012. Using a wide range of equipment – including off-road wheelchair, handcycle, kayak and paraglider - and accessing remote off-road areas with the Land Rover Defender 110, the team will explore the river and surroundings by water, land and air.

Sharing the journey from the field and interacting with their followers through a range of social media, the team will create interest in their expedition and actively encourage suggestions for ‘detours’ and visits along the route and will be posting regular photos, blogs and video of the expedition. To follow the Pushing the Limits team, visit http://www.pushingthelimits.com/. 

Go Beyond Bursary recipients

2011: Glacier in a Greenhouse

The 2011 recipients were a team of Durham University students with a keen interest in glaciology. The research was undertaken on the North East outlet lobe of the plateau icefield of Þorisjökull; looking specifically at the subglacial drainage system of the glacier, glacial sedimentary deposits, debris transport within the ice, landsystems mapping and reconstructing glacier growth and decay. These elements of research gave a wider understanding of how the glacial system operates as a whole.

2010: Fault Line Living
Serena Davies, Tamsin Davies and Adam Whitaker

An arduous 12 week, 15,000 mile journey exploring the realities of life for people living along fault lines. From Iceland to Italy, Greece, Turkey and Iran. The team worked with school students, seismologists and talked to the local people of each country to uncover how different communities adapt to the challenges of fault line living.

2009: Atlantic Rising
William Lorimer, Tim Bromfield and Lynn Morris

Atlantic Rising’s journey traced what could be the new coastline of the ocean following sea level rise exploring the places, people and histories that would be lost to the rising tide if climate change continues.

The team have developed a programme of talks to both adults and school students. For more information contact info@atlanticrising.org.

2008: Latitude
Peter Lovell, Spike Reid and David Smith

Latitude, who travelled in a Land Rover Defender along the line of 50° North across Europe through Asia and Canada.

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