The Dudley Stamp Memorial Award offers a number of small grants (up to £500) for PhD students or postdoctoral researchers in the early stages of their careers to assist them in research or study travel.
The award, formerly administered by the Royal Society, is now administered by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and awarded by the trustees of the Dudley Stamp Memorial Award.
Preference will be given to research that leads to the advancement of geography and to international co-operation in the study of the subject. Applications are particularly welcome for projects which will strengthen links between geographers in the United Kingdom and those overseas.
Deadline: 24 February 2012
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Dudley Stamp Memorial Award Guidelines (PDF)
Dudley Stamp Memorial Award Application Form (MSWORD)
Research Ethics and Code of Practice (PDF)
2011 Dudley Stamp Memorial Award recipients
Nicola Favretto (University of Leeds). Jatropha curcas energy crop cultivation: policy and livelihood implications in Mali
Hugo Ivan Romero (University of Manchester). A political ecology of the HidroAysen Hydropower Project in Chilean Patagonia
Lauren Evans (University of Cambridge). Barriers for conservation? Can electrified fences solve human-elephant conflict in Kenya?
Ayanleh Daher Aden (King's College London). Food insecurity and Actor-networks: an explanation of vulnerability to droughts in Djibouti
Patricia Campbell (University of Glasgow). ‘The slum becomes the suburb': human settlement development in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Sarah Kneen (University of Manchester). Environmental changes across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in north-west Europe
Federico Cugurullo (King's College London). Twenty first century new (eco) cities and the politics of urban environmentalism
Robert Barnett (University of Plymouth). Recent sea-level change in Arctic Norway reconstructed from coastal sediments
Aidan Wong (Queen Mary University of London). Exploring waste collection and recycling global production networks in Singapore and Malaysia
Alison Banwell (University of Cambridge). The hydrology of the Greenland ice sheet: developing a physically based, numerical model
Raymond Keveren (Queen's University Belfast). Late Holocene diatom records of climate change, Northwest Territories, Canada
Na Yan (King's College London). Dune landscape transformations driven by vegitation changes in inland deserts, Northern China
About the Award
Lawrence Dudley Stamp (1898-1966) was an internationally renowned British geographer who served as President of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers. His Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, a modern Domesday Book, sought to classify land use in Britain, and was undertaken with the help of enthusiastic teachers and school children who carried out much of the survey work.
Dudley Stamp worked tirelessly to popularise the discipline of geography, and played a key role in promoting the teaching of the subject in schools. He travelled widely, assisting in the setting up of numerous land use surveys, while his reputation drew postgraduates from around the world to work on his projects.
The Dudley Stamp Memorial Award was set up in 1967 to enable postgraduate geographers to travel in support of their research.