Grants awarded in 2023
The following projects have been selected for funding as part of this year’s grants programme.
Albert Reckitt Award
Ihsan Abualrob (Durham University) Digitalising archival records: The British Council and Palestinians
Bruno Friedel (University of Oxford) The relationship between cohousing groups and land in a carbon and resource constrained world
Cheng Fang (Durham University) Mobilising global financial networks, making the 'China Concepts': Examining the multi-scalar state building in Chinese companies' oversees listings
Neal Halforty (Queen's University Belfast) A study of neighbourhood attachment and place identity in a post conflict society: Portugese communities in Northern Ireland
Armando Caroca (University of Manchester) Unfolding the sacrifice zone: socio-spatial impact of mining waste deposits on urban areas in Chile
Prerna Bindra (University of Cambridge) The aftermath: Human implications of conservation related relocations and the institutions that shape them
Catherine Clarke (University College London) The negotiation and implementation of area-based conservation targets in the Colombian Amazon
Elliot Fisher (University of Edinburgh) The isle of fire: Making sense of fire in Madagascar’s open ecosystems
Dudley Stamp Memorial Award
Brian Nalumenya (Coventry University) Strategies for sustainable water resources management in Uganda
Maria Mills (University of Leicester) Investigating the accuracy of stem respiration estimates: scaling methods, and vertical and diurnal variation
Elise Dehaen (University of Exeter) Hydraulic conductivity and litter production in Colombian peatlands: field measurements for improved peatland carbon modelling in JULES
Sophie Manson (Oxford Brookes University) Quantifying the value of wildlife-friendly farming practices and their effect on ecosystem services in smallholder coffee farms in West Java, Indonesia
Gopikaa Vijayakumar (University of Glasgow) Oxic methane production in arctic wetlands (OMPArc)
Environment and Sustainability Research Grants
Dr Sophie Blackburn (University of Reading) Adaptation social contracts and the politics of climate-driven relocation in Southern Louisiana
Dr Daniel Magnone (University of Lincoln) Sustainable groundwater systems: quantifying groundwater volatile organic compounds in response to saline intrusion
Fieldwork Apprenticeship
Iona Reay (Royal Holloway University of London) Exploring human environmental interaction in the Apennine region of Italy from the Neolithic to the Roman era
Tom Burton (University of Reading) Climate resilience and food production in the Peruvian Andes (CROPP): Assessing the microclimates of Peruvian agricultural terraces
Jamie Todd (University of Oxford) The Kalahari Hhat experiment
Elisenda Henderson (University of Oxford) The Kalahari Hhat experiment
Frederick Soddy Postgraduate Award
Bharath Ananthanarayana (University of Exeter) From India’s ginger fields to the table: Documenting geographies of ginger
Sarah Oakes (University of Leeds) Unearthing the past to safeguard the future: Preserving Indigenous biocultural heritage through participatory videomaking in the Peruvian Andes
Frederick Soddy Schools Award
Barrhead High School - Loch Lomond field trip
Hillhead Primary School - Ardentinny residential trip
Reading Blue Coat School - A Level fieldwork in Carlisle: coasts, hydrology and fluvial geomorphology
Glade Primary School - Cambridge field trip
Heworth CE Primary - Fieldwork study
Foxyards Academy - Lower Key Stage 2 geography fieldwork, Carding Mill Valley
Leopold Primary - Year 3 visit, River Thames and workshop
Geographical Club Award
Bruno Friedel (University of Oxford) The relationship between cohousing groups and land in a carbon and resource constrained world
Charlotte Curry (University of Sheffield) Investigating the impacts of mining on glacier change in the central Chilean Andes
Geographical Fieldwork Grants
Jessica Chavez, Coral Humbar, Hannah Cioci, Sophie Bruder (Oxford Brookes University) Ecosystem services and biodiversity within community-based forests in Bali
Oscar Turner, James Chapman and Agnes Liddell (University of Oxford): Project Amu Darya - An oral history of the Aral Sea crisis
Matthew Nicholson, Laura Brierley, Maisie McCormack, Shaun Farrell, Dominic Rees (Newcastle University) The anthropogenic and climatic impacts in Longyearbyen and Longyearbreen
Raphaela Betz, Patrick Robichaud, Victoria Taylor, William Wallock, Sofi Waterer (University of Oxford) Sustainable water management in West Bengal, India
Sneha Maria Varghese, Simran Pal Kaur, Hamza Abdullah (LSE) Social justice is climate justice - theorising from Delhi
Niamh Hope, Lucy Whittles, Kathryn Davies, James Downing, Harley Geraghty, Harris Green (Newcastle University): Gepatschferner Glacier and River Fagge expedition
Henrietta Hutton Research Grant
Innes Manders (Univerity of St Andrews) Mapping mountain woodlands in Norway, and applications in reforesting the Western Highlands of Scotland
Michelle Taylor (University of Abderdeen) Investigating the diversity and function of an understudied marine ecosystem: novel insights into Caribbean coral rubble beds
Monica Cole Research Grant
Gwyneth Rivers (Sheffield Hallam University) Using transverse ridge morphometry to understand ice sheets in high spatiotemporal resolution
Neville Shulman Challenge Award
Michal Lukaszewicz and Karolina Gawonicz The Barren Lands expedition
Postgraduate Research Grant
Gabrielle Plowens (University of Oxford) Te Awa Tupua and legal personhood for rivers: An analysis of Maori co-governance challenges through Riverhood
Ralph Brown Expedition Award
Dr James Guest and Liam Lachs (Newcastle University) The shifting structure of coral communities: hotspots, thermal refugia, and mass bleaching resistance
Small Research Grants
Dr Alessandro Boussalem (University of St Andrews) Italian-Maghrebi: identity, race and place in Milan
Dr Rachel Carr (Newcastle University) Assessing glacier lake outburst flood (GLOF) hazard and risk in the Himalayan water towers
Dr Joanna Kocsis (Newcastle University) Neighbourhood (geo)politics: Interactions between global and local factors affecting youth resistance in Latin America
Dr Samuel Mitchell (University of Bristol) Ash in the Agean: impact of marine volcanoes on ecosystem and agriculture
Dr Andrew Papworth (University of York) Land grabs on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua: challenges and solutions for the Rama indigenous group
Dr Xuerong Sun (University of Exeter) 3D phytoplankton models
Dr Nina Willment (University of York) Inked up, marked out: Exploring the body as a fieldsite
Thesiger-Oman International Fellowships
Professor Kathryn Fitzsimmons (University of Tübingen, Germany) Assessing the risk of sediment mobilisation in Central Asian drylands in the context of climate change
Dr Samuel De Canio (King’s College London) Bedouin civilization project
Walters Kundert Fellowship
Dr Christopher Darvill (University of Manchester) Reconstructing monsoon dynamics in Arunachal Pradesh, Eastern Himalaya from glacial and ecological change