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: 2010. The award is run biennially in even years.

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  Gilchrist Fieldwork Award past recipients PDF

  2008 Recipient
Dr Alun Hubbard (Aberystwyth University) - Monitoring and modelling basal dynamics and flow-acceleration across the Greenland ice sheet