Call for the Gilchrist Fieldwork Award is now open!!
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). As a charity, learned society and professional body RGS serves an exceptionally wide range of public and professional audiences, including their 16,000 members. They reach millions of people each year through their work to advance geography and support geographers.
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Geography provides an ideal framework for relating other fields of knowledge. It is not surprising that those trained as geographers often contribute substantially to the applied management of resources and environments. Geography is, in the broadest sense, an education for life and for living. Learning through geography – whether gained through formal learning or experientially through travel, fieldwork and expeditions – helps us all to be more socially and environmentally sensitive, better informed, and more responsible as citizens and employees.
The award, now annual, of £15,000 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.
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.
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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
- All grants are awarded at the discretion of the Society. Applicants may only apply for one grant within an annual cycle (deadlines October to April), with the exception of the Gilchrist Fieldwork Award which can be applied to in addition to any other post-PhD researcher grant, the Postgraduate Research Awards – PhD students may apply for the Frederick Soddy Postgraduate Award while an application to the Postgraduate Research Awards is pending, and the Henrietta Hutton Research Grant and Monica Cole Research Grant which can be applied to at the same time. An individual may only be awarded one grant in any one cycle.
- Applications for fieldwork which is currently taking place or has already been completed will not be considered.
- All funds awarded must be used for the purposes set out in the application submitted for the award. These purposes include travel, maintenance, data collection and temporary research assistance (as appropriate to a specific grant). The costs of additional childcare, beyond that required to meet the normal contracted requirements of the job, and that are directly related to the field elements of the project, may be requested as a directly incurred cost. However, childcare costs associated with normal working patterns may not be sought. Salary costs of the PI/costs to buy-out staff time will not be funded. Grants may not be used to fund conference attendance (with the exception of the 30th International Geographical Congress Award). Expenses for equipment, lab costs and sample analysis should not exceed 20% of the amount awarded.
- Grants are not transferrable to individuals or organisations.
- The Society reserves the right to withdraw or recall support at any time.
- Any terms and conditions or codes of conduct for third party organisations relevant to a grant must be adhered to.
- If funding is sought for a component of a larger project, the sub-project should be free-standing with its own objectives.
Application Process
- To apply for a grant, please click the apply link and complete the RGS-IBG grants programme application form and send this, accompanied by a one-page CV, by email to [email protected] by 10:59pm 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 from the official RGS website.
- Please also arrange for two references to be sent by your referees directly to [email protected].
- Please do not send supporting documents such as previous reports, these will not be used when screening the applications.
- Applications will be assessed by an external panel of experts. Interviews are held for some grants. If this applies, it is stated on the page for the grant.
- Please note some grants have different application forms, requirements and questions of referees.
Application Deadline: November 23, 2024
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