The following research projects received RGS-IBG support through the Small Research Grants and EPSRC Grants programme in 2008:

 Small Research Grants 

• Palaeolithic mega-lakes and early human occupation of the Kalahari, southern Africa - Sallie Burrough (University of Oxford)
• Saws, sonar & submersibles: exploring the underwater logging industry - Dr Samuel Randalls (University College London)
• Holocene sea-level change in the Dyfi estuary, west Wales, UK - Dr. Katie Szkornik (Keele University)
• Consumed by risk: building the qualitative & comparative links between obesity and alcohol research in health geography - Dr Claire Herrick (King's College London) (Also recipient of the Jasmin Leila Award)
• The Bureaucratisation of Everyday Movement in 1930s London - Dr Richard Hornsey (University of the West of England)
• Photojournalism and the Early Cold War: Popular geopolitics and the Picture Post, 1945-1953  - Dr Sean Carter (Exeter University)
• Place or aspiration: emotional geographies of young people's ambitions for adult life - Dr Gavin Brown (Leicester University)
• Landscapes of Democracy: the cultural politics of governance in rural Nepal - Dr Andrea Nightingale (University of Edinburgh)
• Environmental knowledge production and water governance in the global south - Dr Leah Gibbs (University of Glasgow) 
• The voices of the poor in urban governance: overlapping spaces of community-level political participation in South Africa - Dr Charlotte Lemanski (University College London)

 EPSRC Research Grants 

• Managed retreat: locating Britain’s crumbling coastal heritage - Dr Caitlin DeSilvey (University of Exeter) 
• A biomarker survey of lakes in Hokkaido (Japan): application for a Kajak sediment sampler - Dr James Bendle (Glasgow University)
• Long-term morphological changes in Welsh regulated rivers under distinct impoundment configuration - Dr Damia Vericat (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) 
• Slow tourism travel for a lower carbon future - Dr Janet Dickinson (Bournemouth University)
• Environmental discourse and cleantech technology: the case of wind power in Shanghai, China - Dr Federico Caprotti (University College London)
• Has Rock Coast vulnerability been underestimated? - Dr Larissa Naylor (University of Exeter)

For information on how to apply, visit the grants' page using the link to the right.