Royal Geographical Society - Research grants

About the Award

Preference will be given to research that leads to the advancement of geography and to international co-operation in the study of the subject. Applications are particularly welcome for projects which will strengthen links between geographers in the United Kingdom and those overseas.

Lawrence Dudley Stamp (1898-1966) was an internationally renowned British geographer who served as President of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers. His Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, a modern Domesday Book, sought to classify land use in Britain, and was undertaken with the help of enthusiastic teachers and school children who carried out much of the survey work.

Dudley Stamp worked to popularise the discipline of geography, and played a key role in promoting the teaching of the subject in schools. He travelled widely, assisting in the setting up of numerous land use surveys, while his reputation drew postgraduates from around the world to work on his projects.

The Dudley Stamp Memorial Award was established in 1967 to enable geographers in the early stages of their careers to travel in support of their research. In 2016 the Dudley Stamp Memorial Fund became a linked charity of the RGS-IBG.

Deadline: 23 November

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The Dudley Stamp Memorial Award is given through the RGS-IBG Postgraduate Research Awards scheme. All prospective grant applicants are encouraged to read our Advice and Resources pages, which include more information about the grants programme, its conditions, how to apply for a grant and what is expected if your application is successful. Please read this information carefully and send your application, or any enquiries, by email to grants@rgs.org.

2021 recipients

William Harcourt (University of St Andrews): Measuring and monitoring glacier calving in Svalbard using a multisensor approach

Hao Lu (University of Exeter): Sustainable conservation of vernacular heritage in Chinese villages: case studies of Jiangxi and Hubei Provinces

Daniela Soto (University of Sussex): The Lithium Pyramid in South America: narratives and territorialities in the context of lithium extraction

Lydia Katsis (University of Southampton): Safeguarding the tropical forests of Belize: integrating the acoustic landscape into anti-poaching patrol design and evaluation

Emanuele Amo (Aberystwyth University): The theoretical and practical impact of Slow Food's communities on the notion of food sovereignty

Subject to final approval:

Holly Chubb (Newcastle University): The implications of glacier recession for mass movement processes and hazards

Viviana Pupeza (University of Cambridge): Cape to Cairo Urban Transformations under Cecil Rhodes, 1890-1914

Amy Reid (Ulster University): Investigating the relationship between emotional geographies and border politics in post-conflict Cyprus

Leandra Stracquadanio (University of Brighton): African Ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) distribution and behavioural ecology in relation to electric fences

2020 recipients

Yu-Kai Liao (Durham University): Crustacean Capitalism in The Amphibious Mekong Delta: Dynamic Relations of Land-water and Agro-aquaculture

Casarin Giada (University of Bristol): Social mixing in schools and neighbourhoods. A comparative study of Italy and the UK

Gergana Daskalova (University of Edinburgh): Shifting Arctic landscapes and biodiversity change in a warming tundra

Georgia Hollands (University of Southampton): The influence of landscape on bee stressors in Belize

Nathaniel 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

Subject to final approval:

Cristina Balaban (Durham University): Testing the competing influence of winds and topography during the past glaciation of the Southern Carpathians, Romania

Hibba Mazhary (University of Oxford): Distancing death: Welfare, slaughter and consumption in the British halal meat industry

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

Sarah Fischel (University College London): Multi-Species Care and Coral Reef Restoration in Bonaire

Kate Hood (Queen Mary University of London): Im/possible ecologies: poetic geographies in and against the Anthropocene - fieldwork was unable to do ahead due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Benjamin Boyes (University of Brighton): Deglaciation of the Kola Peninsula, northwest Arctic Russia, during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition - fieldwork was unable to do ahead due to the COVID-19 pandemic.