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: 28 November 2008
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· RGS-IBG Postgraduate Grants Guidelines PDF
· Research Ethics Code of Practice PDF
RGS-IBG Postgraduate Grant Past Recipients
2008 Recipients
· Martine Janet (Marjam) van de Weg, (University of Edinburgh) - What controls photosynthesis and respiration in Peruvian tropical montane cloud forests?
· Helen Pattison, (Lancaster University) - Oppressed or empowered: The construction of the host gaze within tourism regimes
· Rachel Shannon, (University of Ulster) - A study of the translation of a developing science into public awareness and social organisation: earthquake and tsunami threats in western Sumatra
· Magali Moreau, (University College London) - Land Cover Change and Natural Resource Use in Refugee-Hosting Areas: from humanitarian response to sustainable development
· Aidan Parkes, (Keele University) - A morphological, sedimentological and geophysical investigation of Woore Moraine
· Rose Wilkinson, (University of Manchester) - Quaternary environmental dynamics in Montenegro through multiple glacial-interglacial cycles