Apologies for cross-posting - some grant opportunities and events below that may be of interest to this list...
Louise


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Dr Louise Waite
Lecturer in Human Geography

School of Geography
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds  LS2 9JT
Tel +44 (0)113 343 3367
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Web www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/l.waite

For info on the Participatory Geographies Working Group(PYGYWG), please visit:
http://www.pygywg.org/


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Subject: RGS-IBG update: grants for postgrads & early-career researchers; survey on careers in UK geography closes this Thursday; news from GEES; and forthcoming events

Dear Research Group committees,
Please find below information about forthcoming grant deadlines, surveys, and events.  Please publicise widely by sharing this email with colleagues and Research Group membership lists, and get involved by applying for grants or attending events.  If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.  If you’d like your event, publication, vacancy or other news item to be promoted in Geobyte<http://www.rgs.org/Geobyte>, the Society’s weekly news update for geographers in the research and higher education community, please send details to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Stephanie


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
Please send details of your forthcoming events to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.

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>

21st 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/>


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Dr. Stephanie Wyse
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Research and Higher Education
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
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