The Ray Y. Gildea Jr Award is the Society’s first endowed award supporting innovation in teaching and learning in higher and secondary education.

A single grant of £2,750 is awarded annually.

Applications can be made for projects to research, develop and/or pilot innovations in teaching and learning in any field of geography in higher or secondary education.

The outcomes of the grant should show direct benefit to students of geography.

  Next Deadline:  2010

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  2009 Recipients

· Nicola Rowland (The John of Gaunt School, Wiltshire) - A Virtual Journey across Greenland

This project aims to inspire and create a sense of curiosity in geography students by demonstrating live science whilst crossing the Greenland Icecap with dog teams. It aims to make polar science more accessible and real in the classroom through the use of virtual technologies.