The Gilchrist Educational Trust offers an award of £15,000 to support original and challenging overseas fieldwork carried out by small teams of university academics and researchers.

The research should include a single field session of at least six weeks. There should be strong links with the host country and preferably the research should be of applied benefit to the host nation. 

  Next Deadline: 24 February 2012. The award is run biennially in even years.

  Download Guidelines
· Gilchrist Fieldwork Award guidelines PDF



  Gilchrist Fieldwork Award past recipients PDF

  2010 Recipient
Prof. Christian Turney (University of Exeter) - Investigating the Glacial Past of Mount Giluwe, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea