The Society offers two grants of £500 each annually to undergraduate or postgraduate students who intend to undertake field research overseas as an individual or as part of a team. The field research must last longer than four weeks, but does not have to be connected to the student’s academic studies.
Deadline: 18 January 2013
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Henrietta Hutton Research Grant recipients
2011: Jennifer McAteer (University College London). An evaluation of Beach Village Committee management of sustainable fishing methods in Liwaladzi, Malawi
2011: Eleri Dare-Edwards (University of Bristol). A comparative study into the role of women’s self help groups in the empowerment of women: case study in South India
2010: Sarah Chandler (University of Leicester). Fair trade practices and Indigenous politics in North-Western Argentina
2010: Sarah Owen (University of Leicester). Geological origins of sugar loaf peaks in eastern Brazil and their environmental importance as refugia for Atlantic rain forest preservation
2009: Melissa Fedrigo (University of Edinburgh). Biomass estimation and change in spatial extent of woody vegetation in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
2009: Venetia Phillips (University of Exeter). Attitudes of the Maasai on the Mbirikani group ranch towards the predator compensation scheme
2008: Mojka Kralj (University College London). Detecting the nitrogen input caused by inappropriate sanitary practices in relation to eutrophication in Slovenian alpine lakes using diatoms and C/N ratio
2008: Kate Hardy (Queen Mary, University London). Comparative geographies of sex worker organisation: the case of Argentina
2007: Lindsay Banin (University of Leeds). Cross-continental comparison of tropical forest structures and dynamics
2007: Katherine Fitzpatrick (University of Sussex). Investigation of environmental tolerances of key food resources of the critically endangered Andean Brown-Headed Spider Monkey
2006: Julia Toone (Loughborough University). River morphology of Drôme
2006: Caitlin O'Neill (University College London). Social exclusion in Cambodia: an investigation into how Khmer women with impairments negotiate socially-constructed notions of 'disability'
2005: Kelly Edmunds (University of East Anglia). Feeding the pigeons: supplementary feeding and wild foods in the endangered Pink Pigeon
2005: Emma Clifton-Brown (Durham University). Research into Schistosomiasis in Malawi
2004: Kerry-Anne Mairs (University of Edinburgh). Geomorphology and settlement in the Faroe Islands: an analysis of humanenvironment interactions
2004: Clare Buckley (Oxford University). Oxford University vulture research and local awareness expedition, Waterberg Plateau, Namibia
2003: Elizabeth Bishop (University College London). Maasai schooling strategies: A case study of Engare Naibor, Tanzania
2003: Lucy Bale (The University of Wales, Swansea). Community based initiatives in rural Botswana: providing opportunities and empowering local people through livelihood diversification
2000: Joanne Hemmings (Oxford University). Study of the annual reed dance, Swaziland
2000: Nora Schultz (Oxford University). University of Oxford Expedition to the amphibeans and reptiles of the high Andes of northern Equador
2000: Jessica Metcalf (Oxford University). University of Oxford and Universite d'Antananarivo Madagascar, collaborative expedition looking at wildlife in the Nosy Hara island complex and the Radama islands
2000: Jane Battersby (Oxford University). The project studied the extent to which members of the coloured (mixed race) population have their needs ignored following apartheid in South Africa
For further information on these projects, including a summary of the research and expedition reports, please browse the Society's Expeditions Database.
About the Award
The award is given in memory of Mrs Henrietta Hutton, a young Oxford graduate and founder member of the Oxford University Women's Exploration Club, who died in 1963. The award has been given since 1964.