The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) offers five grants of up to £750 to assist with the cost of attending an international conference.
The conference must be organised by a geographical organisation, association or union affiliated with, or a member of the International Council of Science (ISCU) or other such similar international organisation.
Priority will be given to early career researchers presenting papers and seeking to cover travel expenses, although help with conference fees, accommodation, and maintenance costs will also be considered.
Next Deadline: 22 February 2013
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2011 Thirtieth International Geographical Congress Award recipients
Mark Graham (Oxford University).
Paper Title: Broadband Internet and Expectations of Altered Development Trajectories for Kenya. Conference Name: Third Global Conference on Economic Geography. Conference Dates: 28 June – 2 July 2011. Location: Seoul, Korea. Title of conference session: Local Development in a Globalized World - Issues and Implications
Anna Hughes (Swansea University).
Paper Title: Rapid early Holocene retreat of Helheim Glacier, South-East Greenland. Conference Name: XVIII INQUA 2011 Congress. Conference Dates: 20-27 July 2011. Location: Bern, Switzerland. Title of conference session: ‘Understanding the long term behaviour of the Greenland Ice Sheet’
Fiona Hibbert (University of St Andrews).
Paper Title: British Ice Sheet dynamics inferred from North Atlantic ice-rafted debris records spanning the last 175 000 years. Conference Name: INQUA 2011. Conference Dates: 21-27 July 2011. Location: Bern, Switzerland. Title of conference session: The last British-Irish Ice Sheet: recent advances from terrestrial and marine investigation
Harriet Hawkins (Aberystwyth University).
Paper Title: ‘Incites: an artist’s book’: exploring the critical spaces of collaboration. Conference Name: Fourth Nordic Geographers Meeting (hereafter the NGM). Conference Dates: 24-27 May 2011. Location: Roskilde at Roskilde University, Denmark. Title of conference session: ‘Spatial explorations: creative practice, performance and politics’
Katherine Brickell (Royal Holloway University of London).
Paper Title: ‘Plates in A Basket Will Rattle’: Gendered Experiences of Divorce and Separation in Rural Cambodia. Conference Name: Householding in Transition: Emerging Dynamics in ‘Developing’ East and Southeast Asia. Conference Dates: 25-26 July 2011. Location: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Title of conference session: (Non)Marital and Divorcee Householding
Emma Watcham (Durham University).
Paper Title: A new relative sea level curve for the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Conference Name: XVIII International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress. Conference Dates: 20-27 June 2011. Location: Bern, Switzerland. Title of conference session: Late Quaternary paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental change from high latitude Southern Hemisphere regions including Antarctica (Session no. 16)