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Grants awarded in 2023

The following projects have been selected for funding as part of the 2022/2023 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

 

Hong Kong Research Grant

Cheng Fang (Durham University) Mobilising Global Financial Networks, Making the “China Concepts": Examining the Multi-scalar State Building in Chinese Companies' Oversees Listings'

Jing Chu (Durham University) The Economic Geographies of Central Bank Digital Currencies: Money and the State in Hong Kong

 

Jasmin Leila Award

Neal Halforty (Queen's University Belfast) A Study of Neighbourhood Attachment and Place Identity in a Post Conflict Society: Portuguese Communities in Northern Ireland

Dr Alessandro Boussalem (University of St Andrews) Italian-Maghrebi: identity, race and place in Milan

 

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

 

Rob Potter Award 

Dr Andrew Papworth (University of York) Land grabs on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua: challenges and solutions for the Rama indigenous group

 

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