Grants awarded in 2020
The following projects have been awarded funding as part of this year’s grants programme. In light of the current global coronavirus pandemic, funds will be released when it is safe, responsible and appropriate for researchers to go in to the field, following Government, FCO and in-country guidance.
Benjamin Boyes (University of Brighton): Deglaciation of the Kola Peninsula, northwest Arctic Russia, during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition
Dylan Beard (University of Plymouth): Glaciers as a secondary source of anthropogenic contaminants in the Peruvian Andes
Kate Hood (Queen Mary University of London): Im/possible ecologies: poetic geographies in and against the Anthropocene
Michael Myers (University of Edinburgh): Landscapes of Anxiety: Exploring the role of brokers and indigeneity in assembling participatory forest governance in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Benjamin Boyes (University of Brighton): Deglaciation of the Kola Peninsula, northwest Arctic Russia, during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition
Casarin Giada (University of Bristol): Social mixing in schools and neighbourhoods. A comparative study of Italy and the UK
Cristina Balaban (Durham University): Testing the competing influence of winds and topography during the past glaciation of the Southern Carpathians, Romania
Georgia Hollands (University of Southampton): The influence of landscape on bee stressors in Belize
Gergana Daskalova (University of Edinburgh): Shifting Arctic landscapes and biodiversity change in a warming tundra
Hibba Mazhary (University of Oxford): Distancing death: Welfare, slaughter and consumption in the British halal meat industry
Kate Hood (Queen Mary University of London): Im/possible ecologies: poetic geographies in and against the Anthropocene
Liam Taylor (University of Leeds): Developing a novel open source early warning system for glacial outburst floods
Meiyun Meng (Birkbeck, University of London): Highly Educated Female Migrants’ Production of Home Spaces and Their Negotiations of Gendered Power in Contemporary Shenzhen
Nataniel Baurley (University of Southampton): The use of ultra-high resolution UAV imagery in mapping the distribution and long-term evolution of surface features on the lower ice surface of an actively calving glacier in SE Iceland
Sarah Fischel (University College London): Multi-Species Care and Coral Reef Restoration in Bonaire
Yu-Kai Liao (Durham University): Crustacean Capitalism in The Amphibious Mekong Delta: Dynamic Relations of Land-water and Agro-aquaculture
Evangelia Apostolopoulo (University of Cambridge): Oil and gas exploration vs. community energy projects: The right to energy justice in post-crisis Greece
Jessie Woodbridge (University of Plymouth): Improving socio-ecological resilience to wildfire in the UK via community engagement and integration of deep-time ecological data into landscape management
Laurie Parsons (Royal Holloway University of London): Scaling the Placed-Based Geography of Climate Perception and its Impacts on Migration in Cambodia
Mark Griffiths (University of Exeter/Newcastle University): Towards decolonising geographical field research: an inquiry into local staff-academic relations in Kenyan field stations
Julio Stimson (University of Oxford): Climate Change on the Galapagos Islands: Cultural Translation, Perception & Response
Lindsay Sekulowicz (University of Brighton): After the fire: documenting ethnobotanical knowledge, material practices and belief systems within indigenous communities of the Northwest Amazon
Georgia Hollands (University of Southampton): The influence of landscape on bee stressors in Belize
Liam Taylor (University of Leeds): Developing a novel open source early warning system for glacial outburst floods
Natalie Anderson (University of York): Pemba Island’s Unexpectedly Resilient Reefs
Oliver Baines (University of Nottingham): Does geodiversity buffer biodiversity? Spatiotemporal geodiversity–biodiversity relationships in the Arctic
Linshu Feng (University of Cambridge): The control of dams on the sediment nutrient pool: A comparative study of two large rivers in SE Asia
Daniel Parsons (University of Hull): Cliff-quakes: monitoring climate change impacts on rapid sea-cliff erosion with seismometers
Casarin Giada (University of Bristol): Social mixing in schools and neighbourhoods. A comparative study of Italy and the UK
Lorena Gazzotti (University of Cambridge): Containment beyond deportation. Governing migrant children in the Spanish enclave of Melilla
Lynne Anderson: On a Mission: Monuments, Mountains and Mormons
Lauren Rawlins (University of York): Investigation into microchannel networks on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Toby Nowlan: Last of the Javan Rhino
Gaia Stucky de Quay (University of Texas at Austin): Constraining river erosion rates and long-term evolution of volcanic island landscapes in the Azores and Madeira archipelagos
Martin Mahony (University of East Anglia): Norwich Model Arctic Council for University (NORMAC University) 2020
Meiyun Meng (Birkbeck, University of London): Highly Educated Female Migrants’ Production of Home Spaces and Their Negotiations of Gendered Power in Contemporary Shenzhen
Jake Hodder (University of Nottingham): Internationalising race: the League of Nations and the struggle for racial equality, 1919-1939
Jenni Sherriff (Royal Holloway University of London): A preliminary environmental framework for Early Pleistocene hominin expansion in the Southern Caucasus
Lorena Gazzotti (University of Cambridge): Containment beyond deportation. Governing migrant children in the Spanish enclave of Melilla
Matthew Tillotson (University of Leicester): Telegraphic borderlands. Wires, time and longitude in British imperial boundary
Tory Milner (University of Huddersfield): Colonisation of terrestrial vegetation in an intermittent river: diversity responses to increased drying
Wiesam Essa (University of Manchester): Influence of the impervious surface intensity change on land surface temperature: Case study of the Gaza Strip
Mark Moritz (Ohio State University): An Interdisciplinary Study of Grazing Pressure in the Dhofar Mountains of Oman
Matthew Jones (University of Nottingham): Holocene Environmental Change in Eastern Jordan
Karen Cameron (University of Glasgow): Expanding glaciofluvial sediment environments: Potential hotspots for carbon cycling in a warming Arctic