Royal Geographical Society

About the Awards

The RGS-IBG Postgraduate Research Awards were established in 2008 to support PhD students undertaking research and fieldwork. Applicants must be registered at a UK Higher Education Institution. Preference is given to students who do not receive full funding from a research council, university or comparable levels of support from other sources for fieldwork and data collection.

The RGS-IBG Postgraduate Research Awards include Albert Reckitt Awards, Walters Kundert Grants, the Geographical Club Award, Hong Kong Research Grants and the Dudley Stamp Memorial Award.

Deadline: 23 November

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2021 recipients

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

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

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

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

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

Subject to final approval:

Selma Benyovszky (University of Reading) The water-energy nexus in Algeria: the government water discourse and its interrelation with the hydrocarbon sector

Arianna Tozzi (University of Manchester) Disentangling (ground) waterscapes: understanding everyday experiences of resilience in drought-affected areas of Maharashtra, India

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

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

Eilidh Watson (University of Glasgow) Investigating the energy access impacts, needs and ambitions of women in rural Malawi under three electricity access scenarios

2020 recipients

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

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 be 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

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

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

Subject to final approval:

Michael Myers (University of Edinburgh) Landscapes of Anxiety Exploring the role of brokers and indigeneity in assembling participatory forest governance in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Dylan Beard (University of Plymouth) Glaciers as a secondary source of anthropogenic contaminants in the Peruvian Andes

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

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

Meiyun Meng Birkbeck (University of London) Highly Educated Female Migrants’ Production of Home Spaces and Their Negotiations of Gendered Power in Contemporary Shenzhen

Liam Taylor (University of Leeds) Developing a novel open source early warning system for glacial outburst floods

Linshu Feng (University of Cambridge) The control of dams on the sediment nutrient pool: A comparative study of two large rivers in SE Asia

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.