Geographical research into cultures, economies and environments brings new knowledge and improved understanding of the world and the potential to apply that knowledge to solving some of the many challenges facing society and the environment today.

Since 1830 we have been advancing geography through promoting research nationally and internationally through grants, field programmes and publications of scholarly journals and books.

Between 2005 & 2010, RGS-IBG, is supporting the following six innovative research projects that contribute directly to the theme ‘geographical perspectives on global change’ to pump priming larger-scale research activity.

 Global change and post-socialist urban identities
Dr Craig Young (and colleagues), Manchester Metropolitan University

 Sand seas and dune fields
Professor Ian Livingstone (and colleagues), University of Northampton

 Children and global change: Experiencing migration, negotiating identities
Dr Heaven Crawley (and colleagues), Swansea University

 Drying out? Water, society and climate in central Mexico
Professor S Metcalfe (and colleagues), School of Geography, University of Nottingham

 Global change and sustainable European landscape management project
Dr M Dengler and Dr D Schreve, Royal Holloway University of London

 A cross-disciplinary research program in Myanmar 
Professor Michael Bird (and colleagues), Geography and Geosciences, University of St. Andrews