Dudley Stamp Memorial Award
The Dudley Stamp Memorial Award offers a number of small grants (up to £500) for PhD students or postdoctoral researchers in the early stages of their careers to assist them in research or study travel.
The award, formerly administered by the Royal Society, is now administered by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and awarded by the Trustees of the Dudley Stamp Memorial Award.
Preference will be given to research that leads to the advancement of geography and to international co-operation in the study of the subject. Applications are particularly welcome for projects which will strengthen links between geographers in the United Kingdom and those overseas.
Deadline
22 February (each year)
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Dudley Stamp Memorial Award Guidelines (PDF)
Dudley Stamp Memorial Award Application Form (MSWORD)
Research Ethics and Code of Practice (PDF)
2012 Dudley Stamp Memorial Award recipients
Thomas Kelly (University of Leeds). 'The Environmental History of Abandoned River Channels in the Peruvian Amazon'
Rachel Berman (University of Leeds). 'Assessing the Transformation of Climate Change Coping Capacity to Adaptive Capacity'
Martin Smart (University of Hertfordshire). 'Deglaciation Dynamics of the Feegletscher, Switzerland: Implications for Catchment Sediment Budgets'
Jessica Chu (SOAS). 'The Cultural Economy of ‘Land Grabs’ in Zambia'
Martin Brader (Durham University). 'Lateglacial to Holocene Relative Sea-level Change and Deglaciation of Northwest Iceland'
Christine Cleghorn (University of Leeds). 'The Relationship Between Agrobiodiversity, Dietary Diversity and Nutritional Status in Tanzania'
Charlotte Axtell (University of Leeds). 'Measuring the Englacial Water Content Using Borehole Geophysics at Storglaciären, Sweden'
Rory Hill (University of Oxford). 'Local, Loyal and Constant'? On the Dynamism of Terroir in Sustainable Agriculture'
Eleanor Darlington (Loughborough University). 'Meltwater Delivery From Terrestrial and Tidewater Glaciers to Kongsfjorden, Svalbard'
Laura Obermuller (University of St. Andrews). 'Forest People Perspectives on the Potential Effects of REDD+ Policies'
Viktoria Vona (King's College London). 'The Role of Art and Artists in Contesting Gentrification in London and New York City'
Jasper Kenter (University of Aberdeen). 'Taking Account of Culture in Valuing Nature: Conceptualising Pathways to Sustainability in Kahua, the Solomon Islands'
About the Award
Lawrence Dudley Stamp (1898-1966) was an internationally renowned British geographer who served as President of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers. His Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, a modern Domesday Book, sought to classify land use in Britain, and was undertaken with the help of enthusiastic teachers and school children who carried out much of the survey work.
Dudley Stamp worked to popularise the discipline of geography, and played a key role in promoting the teaching of the subject in schools. He travelled widely, assisting in the setting up of numerous land use surveys, while his reputation drew postgraduates from around the world to work on his projects.
The Dudley Stamp Memorial Award was established in 1967 to enable postgraduate geographers to travel in support of their research.