Research Grants
The Research Funds of the Society are listed below. Conditions of eligibility and other conditions are indicated.
Applications should be made on the form below and posted or emailed to the Awards Secretary at the Geological Society. Please refer to the Guidelines for Applicants. The form must be completed in full and accompanied by two letters of support from Fellows of the Society.
In order to be considered at the next available committee meeting, applications and supporting documents should reach the Society no later than 4 February 2011. The average award has been about £1,000.
Applications should be made on the form below and posted or emailed to the Awards Secretary at the Geological Society. Please refer to the Guidelines for Applicants. The form must be completed in full and accompanied by two letters of support from Fellows of the Society.
In order to be considered at the next available committee meeting, applications and supporting documents should reach the Society no later than 4 February 2011. The average award has been about £1,000.
- Download the research grant application form as a PDF (.pdf 84 Kb)
- Download the research grant application form as a Word document (.rtf 45 Kb)
- Download the research grant guidelines (.pdf 82 Kb)
- Download the research grant regulations (.pdf 64 Kb)
To view details of the successful applicants for 2010, please visit the Winners of the 2010 Research Grants page.
The following funds are available for application:
Mike Coward Fund
- For fieldwork in structural geology as applied to regional tectonics.
William George Fearnsides Fund
- To advance geological science.
Edmund Johnson Garwood Fund
- For the encouragement of research in stratigraphy, with palaeontology, and in physical geology. Must be between 28 and 51 years of age.
Gloyne Outdoor Geological Research Fund
- For the prosecution of outdoor research preferentially of a palaeontological or stratigraphical character, and preferentially within the limits of the British Commonwealth.
Annie Greenly Fund
- For detailed geological mapping.
Timothy Jefferson Field Research Fund
- Must be under 28 years of age; for a field project for research in Earth science. Not for military activity or development.
Elspeth Matthews Fund
- For members of the Society for geological field-based research anywhere in the world. Preference for those under 30 years of age.
Daniel Pidgeon Fund
- To promote geological original research. Must not be more than 28 years of age.
Joseph Burr Tyrrell Fund
- To assist geologists of Great Britain and Ireland to travel to and in Canada; or to assist in the publication of meritorious papers by geologists of Great Britain and Ireland upon the geology of Canada; or to assist such geologists in any other way best adapted to further this object.
Distinguished Geologists’ Memorial Fund
- To a geologist under the age of 30; in the form of travel bursaries to enable recipients to broaden their experience and for professional development.
Undergraduate Fieldwork Bursaries
The Society is pleased to announce a broadening of its Research Grants scheme to include support for undergraduate field mapping projects which until now have been ineligible for support.
Through the generosity of Novas Consulting in the current Research Grants round up to £1500 will be available to fund up to 6 bursaries for field mapping projects linked to studies of stratigraphy, structure or sedimentary geology/processes. Topics with a relation to petroleum geology will be particularly favoured. Proposals for work in other topics will not be considered.
Applications are now invited from undergraduate students which should be submitted on the form below no later than 4 February 2011.
Your application should:
- Describe the proposed fieldwork project. Preference will be given to novelty, such as pioneering work in geographic or scientific areas where little is already known or the development or investigation of new techniques.
- Demonstrate real need (financial hardship). State what funds are available/secured and the balance needed to undertake your field mapping project.
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Other grants administered by the Society
Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust
- The Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust, and the Willson family, generously supports the Geological Society Grants programme, in memory of their son and brother, Jeremy Willson.
Jeremy was a great athlete, geologist and adventurer. He sadly died of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) in March 2006. In the spirit of Jeremy’s interests, the Jeremy Willson Award supports field-based projects with a distinct focus on the physical environment. To find out more about the Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust visit the website.