Geographical Club Award

The Geographical Club Award offers two grants of £1,000 each year to support PhD students undertaking geographical fieldwork or other forms of data collection in the UK or overseas. The award was established in 2009, and since 2011 has provided two annual grants: one for a physical geography project and another for a human geography project. The Geographical Club is a members dining club with origins in the Raleigh Club established in 1826, which later formed the Geographical Society of London that became the Royal Geographical Society. The Club maintains close links with RGS-IBG and supports the Society through funding conservation work and this award. Recipients are invited to attend a Geographical Club dinner. Preference is given to students who do not receive full funding from a research council, university or comparable levels of support from other sources for fieldwork and data collection.