Grants awarded in 2022
The following projects have been selected for funding as part of this year’s grants programme.
Matthew Beach (Queen Mary University of London) Connective Tissues: (Un)lively Materialities of Gelatine and Collagen
Michael Wenborn (Oxford Brookes University) Scoping assessment of the challenges of co-existence of elephants and rural communities
Emma Underwood (Kingston University London) Parameterising range-shift predictions for mechanistic distribution models using demographic data in a Biodiversity Hotspot
Charlie Hackforth (University College London) Insect-mediated ecosystem functioning in Congolese Peat Swamp Forest: consequences of dung beetle activity on peat formation
Sophie Erfurth (University of Oxford) Institutional Trust and Collective Action in Groundwater User Groups in Tunisia
Eleanor Hall (University of Hertfordshire) Establishing a baseline dataset of permafrost thaw-induced landslides in Adventdalen, Svalbard
Alice Jardine (University of Oxford) Decreasing Rainfall to Year 2100 – Role of the Congo Air Boundary (DRY-CAB)
Christopher Edmunds (University of Oxford) Decreasing Rainfall to Year 2100 – Role of the Congo Air Boundary (DRY-CAB)
Matthew Beach (Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)) Connective Tissues: (Un)lively Materialities of Gelatine and Collagen
Rosie Knowles (Royal Holloway, University of London) Re-imagining Liminal Therapeutic Landscapes
Emma Watts (University of Southampton) The 2018 rift eruption of Kilauea: Pyroclastic deposits and eruption dynamics of Fissure 17.
Juniper Kiss (University of Southampton) Swidden agriculture meets new soil etagenomics approach in Papua New Guinea
Dhaval Joshi (University of Edinburgh) Peeping down, looking forward: exploring the knowledge(s) of groundwater governance in India
Emma Underwood (Kingston University London) Parameterising range-shift predictions for mechanistic distribution models using demographic data in a Biodiversity Hotspot
Alejandra Pizarro Choy (University of St Andrews) The geopolitical ecology of conservation funding: Discourse and power in counter illegal wildlife trade programmes in Peru
Natasha Mannion (Newcastle University) Understanding the role of hunting in mammal biodiversity responses to infrastructure expansion in the Heart of Borneo
Kenta Sayama (University of Oxford) Evaluating the importance of geocultural context for the conservation of Quaternary Palaeoenvironment Archives in Sharjah, UAE
Anna Stanworth (University of Exeter) Assessing Ecosystem Service Provision from Local to Landscape Scale in Papua New Guinea
Dr Aleksandra Kosanic (Liverpool John Moores University) Availability of Nature’s Contributions to People for Disabled Populations in Biosphere Reserves
Dr Anna Laing (University of Sussex) Towards Decolonising Climate Financing Spaces: An exploration and advancement of the Indigenous-led Shandia Vision, Amazon Basin
Dr Rebecca Windemer (University of the West of England) Is there an afterlife for wind installations in Italy?
Chantal Bright (University of Manchester) Water, Land Rights, and Gendered Peacebuilding in Liberia
Maureen Kinyanjui (University of Edinburgh) Improving the resilience of human-elephant coexistence in the face of rapid socio-ecological changes
Cristina Argudin (University of Southampton) Subsistence hunting, climate change and food security in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
Highgate Wood School - A Level residential fieldtrip to Snowdonia, North Wales
Blenheim High School - Year 12 Watchet Together, Somerset
Victoria Primary School - Ingleborough fieldtrip, Yorkshire Dales
Five Islands Academy - Geography Year 10 fieldwork
Elliott Hudson College - A Level residential fieldwork - Blencathra FSC
Rosemary Huck (University of Oxford) Quantifying soil crust erodibility in fragile semi-arid dune systems
Dhaval Joshi (University of Edinburgh) Peeping down, looking forward: exploring the knowledge(s) of groundwater governance in India
Jakub Domanski, Ursula Shaw, Robert Kunzmann, Madeleine Ary Hahne (University of Cambridge); Monika Rasz (Jagiellonian University), Mei Wen. Cambridge University Narsarsuaq Glacial Climate Impact Expedition
Cassie Dummett, Joe Langley (University College London); Joseph Kanyama Tabu (University of Kisangani) Investigating human-plant-invertebrate interactions in the peatland forests of DRC
Eleanor Leadbeater, Rebecca White, Alex Burton, Sam Eveleigh (Newcastle University) Studying the effects on climate change on the cryosphere in Svalbard
Lucy Friend, Emily Willans, Molly Aspinwall (Newcastle University) Glacier de Miage and Lex Blanche Glacier Expedition
Lucia Hudson, Suzannah Egleston, Aoife Cantwell-Jones (Imperial College London) What’s the buzz about climate change?
Aavika Dhanda (Oxford University Zoology) Evaluating the impacts of land-use land-cover changes on eastern Indian Himalayan birds
Holly Elgar (Essex University) Conducting baseline assessment for new seagrass conservation area
Jasmine Brown (University of Glasgow) Investigation into the abundance, distribution, richness and evenness of invertebrates in several habitat types
Rosie Knowles (Royal Holloway, University of London) Re-imagining Liminal Therapeutic Landscapes
Lucy Weidner (University of Edinburgh) The Land of Fire, Ice, and Erosion: Tracking a millennium of carbon movement in Southern Iceland
Maike Nowatzki (University of Oxford) Exploring morphological drivers of dunefields in southern Africa using deep learning, satellite imagery, and field-based approaches
Diana Jerome (University of Edinburgh) The effect of forest management and climate change on boreal shrubs
Laura Picot (University of Oxford) Climate resilience and farmers’ intersectional identities in Ghana
Professor Lee Brown (University of Leeds) Long term response of river ecosystems to glacier retreat
Alison Grasmeder and Dr Christine Winter (University of Sheffield) Innovating Racial Literacy Teaching and Learning for schools in PGDE Geography
Dr Vandana Desai (Royal Holloway, University of London) Undergraduate Student Academic Mobility Project
Dr Nick Clare (University of Nottingham) Student and staff mental health support
Dr Bethan Davies (Royal Holloway, University of London) A three-dimensional record of icefield dynamics for the Juneau Icefield, Coast Mountain Range, Alaska, over the last 20,000 years
Dr Rebecca Senior (Durham University) Investigating the microclimate niche of threatened Omani plant species in the Western Hajar Mountains
Dr Amy Barron (University of Manchester) Approaching Middle Age Through Non-Representational Theories
Dr Adrián Oyaneder (University of Exeter) Northern Chile's Chaku and Caycu the highest altitude desert kites in the world
Dr Samuel Berlin (University of Plymouth) Atmospheres of (counter)terrorism in European Cities
Dr Alex Hastie (Coventry University) The Digital Geographies of Film and Cinema: Access, Algorithm, and Interface
Dr James Riding (Newcastle University) Places where memories reside: exploring memories of war in sites of conscience
Dr Samuel Derbyshire (University of Oxford) Managing uncertainty: a visual ethnography of pastoralism and environmental change in Turkana, northern Kenya
Dr Dieter Tetzner (British Antarctic Survey) COrdillera Darwin Ice CorE Survey (CODICES)