By the kind generosity of Fellows Paul and Mary Slawson, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) offers two to three awards annually, each between £1,000-£3,000, for PhD students intending to carry out geographical field research.

The awards support geographical fieldwork involving development issues with a high social and economic value.

  Next Deadline: 25 February 2011

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  2009 Recipients

· Tamlynn Fleetwood (University of Durham) - Social inclusion and integration in post- apartheid education: the everyday spaces and identities of secondary school learners in Durban, South Africa 

· Gary Watmough (University of Southampton) - Exploring spatial relationships between socio- economic variables and environmental factors in  Assam, north east India

· James Morrissey (Oxford University) - A comparative political ecology of migration in the Ethiopian Highlands