Applications are open for Gilchrist Fieldwork Award 2022! Apply now!
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) is the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography. They advance geography and support geographers in the UK and across the world. As a charity, learned society and professional body, they reach millions of people each year through their work in advancing geography and supporting geographers. Equality, diversity and inclusion are core values for the Society and for the practice, study and teaching of geography. Their prestigious medals and awards recognize excellence in geographical research and fieldwork, teaching and public engagement.
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The Gilchrist Educational Trust offers an award to support original and challenging overseas fieldwork carried out by small teams of university academics and other researchers. The award, now annual, is given to a team of researchers with an outstanding proposal for research to advance geographical knowledge, that requires significant, challenging overseas fieldwork. The award should support a single field session of high-quality research and data collection. There should be strong links and collaborations with local agencies and communities. Local benefits should be demonstrated in applications.
The Gilchrist Fieldwork Award, of the Gilchrist Educational Trust, was first awarded in 1990. It is entirely owned, funded and awarded by the Trust, but operationally administered for a fee by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Candidates may only apply for one grant within an annual cycle (deadlines October to April). The exceptions are:
- Henrietta Hutton and Monica Cole Research Grants which can be applied to at the same time;
- Gilchrist Fieldwork Award can be applied to in addition to any other post-PhD researcher grant.
Benefits
The Gilchrist Educational Trust offers an award of £15,000 to support original and challenging overseas fieldwork carried out by small teams of university academics and other researchers.
Eligibilities
- Applications from geographers, ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, earth and environmental scientists, and researchers from related fields are all strongly encouraged.
- The award is open to established researchers.
- Applicants must hold a PhD at time of application and be based in a UK Higher Education Institution or equivalent research establishment.
Application Process
- To apply for a grant, please complete the RGS-IBG grants program application form, by clicking on Apply Now and send this by email to the Society’s Grants Officer ([email protected]) by 23.59 on the deadline date stated on the grant’s page.
- When submitting an application, please read the guidance on the page of the grant for which you are applying, as well as that provided on the Advice and Resources pages.
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Application Deadline: November 23, 2021
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