The Society offers eight awards of £2,000 for PhD students undertaking fieldwork / data collection. These awards, offered to individuals, aim to help students establish themselves in their particular field.
Awards will be offered in each of the following areas:
- physical environment
- conservation / sustainability
- society / economy.
Next Deadline: November 2010
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· RGS-IBG Postgraduate Grants Guidelines PDF
· Research Ethics Code of Practice PDF
RGS-IBG Postgraduate Grant Past Recipients
2009 Recipients
· Peter Schuerch, (Durham University) - Rapid assessment of debris flow erosion and deposition dynamics
· Antonia Liversidge (Loughborough University) - Determining the origin of abrupt shifts in Holocene sediment records from west Greenland
· Luca Marazzi (University College London) - Assessment of phytoplankton biodiversity in relation to the ecosystem services in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
· Francesca Iordan (King's College London) - Small mammal dynamics within a natural river corridor (Fiume Tagliamento, NE Italy)
· Emma Stone (University of Bristol) - The impact of artificial street lighting on lesser horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus hipposideros) implications for conservation management (UK)
· Lucrezia Tincani (School of African and Oriental Studies, London) - Capturing the poverty- migration role of forest resources in rural Burkina Faso
· Rene Hohman (King's College London) - Inter- organisational cooperation in area - based initiatives: a cross- national study of the New Localism in England and Germany
· Matej Blazek (University of Dundee) - Changing formation of childhood and gender in a post- socialist housing estate- A case study on Petržalka 1973- 2008 (Slovakia)