The Geographical Club Award provides two awards of £1,000 to support postgraduate students (Masters or PhD) undertaking geographical fieldwork or other forms of data collection in the UK or overseas to advance geographical knowledge or understanding. One award is given for Physical and one for Human Geography.
No restrictions are placed on research topic or location. Project expenses covered by the award can include, but are not limited to, travel, subsistence, equipment and field assistants.
Next Deadline: 23 November 2012
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Geographical Club Award recipients
2011: Danielle Gent (Loughborough University). 'Exploring the household adoption of photovoltaic technologies: the case of rural Nicaragua'.
The project explored the notion of household “energy poverty” in rural Nicaragua, and the extent to which photovoltaic technologies are appropriate for achieving the basic needs of energy poor households. The project formed the recipients PhD thesis.
2010: Siobhan Whadcoat (Durham University). ‘Understanding large-scale post-earthquake dynamics, Sichuan, China.’
The project followed the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China, which resulted in loosening of rock and landslides. The research assessed sediment mobilisation in Sichuan, to understand the controls on sediment remobilisation and secondary hazards. The project formed Siobhan’s Masters thesis, completed July 2010.
2009: Edmund Garrett (Durham University). ‘Reconstruction of Holocene east Asian monsoon intensity using benthic foraminifera and oxygen isotopes for the Pearl River estuary, Southeast China'.
Results have been published in Chilean segment boundary persistence over the late Holocene (Garrett et al., 2010). The project formed Edmund's Masters thesis.
For further information on the projects listed above, including a summary of the research reports, please browse the Society's Expeditions Database.
About the Award
The Geographical Club Award was established in 2009 as an annual award of £1,000, funded by The Geographical Club. In 2011 the decision was made to award two grants annually.
A member of the Geographical Club is part of the panel that reviews applications and the Club oversee the review process. Interviews are not held for this Award. Recipients are announced in February of the following year and they are invited to attend a Geographical Club dinner.
The decision to continue support of this Award is made annually by the Club.
About the Donor
The Geographical Club is a members dining club which has its origins in the Raleigh Club, a dining club for explorers and travellers established in 1826. At a meeting of that Club in 1830 a new Society, The Geographical Society of London, was formed and this subsequently became the Royal Geographical Society. In 1854 the Raleigh Club was dissolved and the Geographical Club created. The Club has kept close links with the RGS-IBG. It has a wide ranging membership of Fellows of the RGS-IBG with geographical interests whose backgrounds span academia, exploration, travel, authorship, commerce and the wider world. The Club supports the Society through funding conservation work in the RGS-IBG archives and the Geographical Club Award.