*Grants*

*Forthcoming grants deadlines at RGS-IBG – opportunities for
postgraduates, and for international conference attendance by
early-career researchers*

The following awards for postgraduate research and for conference
attendance have a deadline of 25 February 2011:

     * /Slawson Award/: Two to three awards of up to £3,000 for PhD
       research in developing countries. *W* www.rgs.org/Slaw
       <http://www.rgs.org/Slaw>
     * /Frederick Soddy Postgraduate Award/: Up to £6,000 to support a
       PhD student/group of PhD students carrying out fieldwork/research
       on ‘the study of the social, economic, and cultural life of a
       region’, anywhere in the world. *W* www.rgs.org/FSA
       <http://www.rgs.org/FSA>
     * /Dudley Stamp Memorial Award/: Several awards of up to £500 for
       PhD students or early career researchers undertaking research
       overseas. *W* www.rgs.org/DSA <http://www.rgs.org/DSA>
     * /30th International Geographical Congress Award/: Five grants of
       up to £750 to assist with the cost of attending an international
       conference, with priority given to early-career researchers. *W*
       www.rgs.org/30IGC <http://www.rgs.org/30IGC>

*British Academy – Overseas Conference Grants, Conference Support Grants
and Small Research Grants (final rounds for these schemes) *

Application forms for the following schemes are now available on e-GAP:
https://egap.britac.ac.uk <https://egap.britac.ac.uk/>

Please note that this is a call for proposals for the /Final Rounds of
these schemes, which are being phased out by the Academy/.

     * *Overseas Conference Grants: *Grants are available for the travel
       expenses of a scholar delivering a paper at a conference abroad.
       Deadline for submission of applications: 2 March 2011; Results
       expected: end May 2011; Earliest Start Date for Conference: 1 July
       2011; Latest Start Date for Conference: 31 December 2011.
     * *Conference Support Grants: *Grants normally not exceeding £7,500
       (but in exceptional circumstances up to £20,000) to promote the
       dissemination of advanced research. Conference convenors may apply
       for financial assistance, e.g. to bring key speakers to the
       conference, or for a wider range of expenses.
       Deadline for submission of applications: 16 March 2011; Results
       expected: end June 2011; Earliest Start Date for Conference: 1
       September 2011; Latest Start Date for Conference: 31 August 2012.
     * *Small Research Grants: *Grants are offered of up to £7,500 for
       collaborative or individual projects to facilitate initial project
       planning and development, to support the direct costs of research,
       and to enable the advancement of research through workshops or by
       visits by or to partner scholars.
       Deadline for submission of applications: 23 March 2011; Results
       expected: end June 2011; Earliest Start Date for Research: 1
       August 2011; Latest Start Date for Research: 1 April 2012.

*British Academy – New Mid-Career Fellowship Scheme*

The British Academy has announced a new Mid-Career Fellowship Scheme.
The Academy intends, through this scheme, both to support outstanding
individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to support
outstanding communicators who will promote public understanding and
engagement with humanities and social sciences.  The aim of the scheme
is to allow successful applicants to obtain time freed from normal
teaching and administrative commitments. The time bought by the scheme
should be devoted to the completion of a major piece of research and/or
to the promotion of a programme of public engagement and communication.
For more information about eligibility and application process please
visit the Academy's website W: http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/index.cfm
<http://email.britac.ac.uk/_act/link.php?mId=A8597010096850372416866312521&tId=8789473>

The closing date for applications is *9 March 2011*. Decisions will be
announced in late May.  Applications must be submitted via W:
https://egap.britac.ac.uk/
<http://email.britac.ac.uk/_act/link.php?mId=A8597010096850372416866312521&tId=8789472>, 

the Academy's electronic grant application system.

*Careers in UK HE Geography Survey: choices, status and experience (WGSG
survey)*

This survey, funded by a RGS-IBG Research Group grant, is being
undertaken by the Women and Geography Study Group, and aims to update
previous surveys (McDowell 1979, McDowell and Peake 1990) on women’s
study and employment status within UK Geography. This survey extends
previous studies in two important ways: 1) It includes men as well as
women, and 2) It collects qualitative as well as quantitative data.
Combined with HESA data this survey will provide significant insight to
the experience of postgraduate study, academic and non-academic career
pathways and promotion. The intention is to publish summary findings in
geography journals and to report to the wider geographical community.

The survey deadline has been extended and will now close at 6pm on
Thursday 3 February 2011.  To complete the survey follow the survey link
*W*: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wgsg_2010survey

**

**

*Update from GEES*

The Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) Subject Centre is
offering the following events that you and your departmental colleagues
may be interested in.  In particular note that GEES are offering free
registration to your department/school’s official GEES contact for the
GEES 11 summer event.

*23/24th May 2011 – Early Career Lecturers Workshop*

This two-day workshop is designed for anyone in the first five years of
teaching Geography, Earth,  Environmental Sciences, and in closely
related disciplines for example transport studies, in Higher Education,
in the UK and internationally.

For further information on this event, including registration details,
visit *W*: http://gees.ac.uk/events/2011/newlect11/newlect11.htm

*30th June – 1st July 2011 – GEES 11: Student and Staff motivations and
transition to new HEA structure *

Call for papers now open. Deadline for papers 14th February 2011.

This event brings together presentations on student and staff
motivation. The two day event will also feature presentations and
workshops to help the GEES communities’ transition to the new Higher
Education Academy structure. Outcomes from the recent GEES Subject
Centre Open Educational Resources projects, along with a number of other
themed strands will be presented. We are offering free attendance at
this event to official GEES Subject Centre departmental/school contacts,
we would like as many departmental contacts as possible to attend to
discuss the new structure.

For further information on this event, including abstract submission
details, visit *W*: http://gees.ac.uk/events/2011/ac2010/ac2011.htm

*Forthcoming events*

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*Policy seminar: A Perfect Storm Ahead? Perspectives on food, water and
energy security to 2030*

This day-long policy seminar, part of the Royal Geographical Society
(with IBG)’s well established Environment and Society Forum, will bring
together key stakeholders from government departments and agencies,
practitioners, local government, NGOs, and researchers to consider what
the government’s chief scientist has defined as the ‘perfect storm’
combining food, water and energy shortages.

Keynote speaker: Rt Hon Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State for Energy
and Climate Change

*Date and location: *17 February 2011, 09.45-16.00 at the Society

Book now – for more information and to register: *W*
www.rgs.org/perfectstorm <http://www.rgs.org/perfectstorm>

*21^st Century Challenges*
The next event in the discussion series focuses on /Persistent poverty
in Britain/ and features John Bird MBE (Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The
Big Issue), Julia Unwin CBE (Chief Executive, Joseph Rowntree
Foundation) and is chaired by Mark Easton (BBC Home Affairs Editor).

*Date and location: *2 March 2011 at 7:30pm at the Society

*W*http://www.21stcenturychallenges.org
<http://www.21stcenturychallenges.org/>

*Rediscovering African Geographies*

  From its foundation, the Society has supported the collection of
geographical information about Africa through the work of, for example,
Baker, Burton, Lander, Livingstone, Speke and Stanley.

This project, supported by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
(MLA) from its Designation and Development Fund, explores, in
partnership with African Diaspora community organisations, items from
the Society’s African Collections.

Rediscovering African Geographies provides new perspectives through
online galleries, embedding new information within the Society’s
Collections records, in addition to an exhibition in the Society’s
Pavilion. The Society’s historic African materials have been provided
with new relevance, understanding and meaning to people of African
descent in the 21st century, as well as the wide community of users
already familiar with this important aspect of our holdings.  Attend an
introduction to the exhibition by its curators, which includes a tour of
the exhibition by the Society's Exhibitions Co-ordinator, Vandana Patel.

*Date and location: *Monday 21 March 2011 at the Society

*/Research Group events:/*

25 February 2011: PhD and Early Career Researchers workshop:
'Understanding Transitions Through Methodological Innovations'

/Geographies of Children, Youth and Family Research Group/

*W*http://geobyte.rgs.org/post/1986525553/call-for-papers-geographies-of-children-youth 



19-20 April 2011: Workshop on ‘Recycling, Slow Food and Buying Local:
Greening Household Decision-making’

/Planning & Environment Research Group/

*W*http://geobyte.rgs.org/post/2133703840/event-workshop-on-recycling-slow-food-and-buying 



**

19-20 May 2011: Teaching Historical Geographies: Practice and Pedagogy

/Historical Geography Research Group/

**

28-30 June 2011: British Society for Geomorphology Annual Conference
‘Extreme events: shaping the surface of the Earth’

*W*www.geomorphology.org.uk <http://www.geomorphology.org.uk/>

....................................................................................................

Dr. Stephanie Wyse
Professional Officer: Conference and Research Groups
Research and Higher Education
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR, England

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