Apply now for our 2025 grants

Every year we support over 70 fieldwork projects with our range of grants, many of which have application deadlines in the coming months.

Grants for independent travellers and researchers

Are you an independent traveller looking to further understanding of the planet, its cultures, peoples and environments, and share what you find with the world? If so, the Neville Shulman Challenge Award could be for you

The Neville Shulman Challenge Award offers £5,000 to an individual or team planning an intellectually or physically challenging research project or expedition to take place in 2025.

Grants for researchers

The Society has grants available to support early-career and established researchers, ranging from £3,500 to £15,000. The Ralph Brown Expedition Award, Walters Kundert Fellowship and Thesiger-Oman International Fellowships support research taking place in aquatic, Arctic/high mountain, and arid/semi-arid environments, respectively.

For work across the full breadth of geography and related disciplines, the Gilchrist Fieldwork Award offers £15,000 to teams of established researchers undertaking challenging fieldwork overseas.

Specifically for post-PhD, early-career researchers, our Small Research Grants offer up to £3,500 for desk or field-based research in any area of geography. 

Grants for students

For first-year undergraduate students, the Fieldwork Apprenticeship scheme gives up to £1,500 to support a student joining a field research team in 2025.

For student teams, the Geographical Fieldwork Grants offer up to £3,500 to support overseas geographical field research.

There are many more grants available for undergraduate, master’s,  and PhD  students looking for funding to help support their dissertation fieldwork. Each year the Society supports around 30 university-student projects.

Grants for innovations in teaching and learning and for school fieldwork

If you are a primary or secondary school teacher organising school fieldwork in 2025, you can apply for the Frederick Soddy Schools Award for up to £600 to support your trip. The Society also offers grants for teachers and those working in higher education to research innovations in teaching and learning and to develop new teaching resources. 

Deadlines for Society grants run from 23 November 2024 to 1 April 2025. Please view the full list of deadlines.

More information and how to apply