Call for Applications: Dudley Stamp Memorial Award – UK

Lawrence Dudley Stamp (1898-1966) was an internationally renowned British geographer who served as President of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers. His Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, a modern Domesday Book, sought to classify land use in Britain, and was undertaken with the help of enthusiastic teachers and school children who carried out much of the survey work.

Dudley Stamp worked to popularise the discipline of geography, and played a key role in promoting the teaching of the subject in schools. He travelled widely, assisting in the setting up of numerous land use surveys, while his reputation drew postgraduates from around the world to work on his projects.

The Dudley Stamp Memorial Award was established in 1967 to enable geographers in the early stages of their careers to travel in support of their research. In 2016 the Dudley Stamp Memorial Fund became a linked charity of the RGS-IBG.

Award Information

• The Dudley Stamp Memorial Award offers a number of £500 grants every year.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications are particularly welcome for projects which will strengthen links between geographers in the United Kingdom and those overseas.
• Preference will be given to research that leads to the advancement of geography and to international co-operation in the study of the subject.

Conditions

• 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.
• 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).
• 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.

For more information, visit Royal Geographical Society.