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RGS-IBG Postgraduate Research Awards

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 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)

deadline November 2010

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