Society grants awarded to Research Groups
Our Research Groups bring together active researchers and those with a professional interest in a particular aspect of geography and related disciplines. Each autumn, the groups can apply for funding from the Society to support activities in the upcoming year.
As we welcome in 2025, the Society is delighted to announce that we have awarded 10 of our Research Groups with grants to support a variety of projects and activities, enabling them to continue sharing their expertise and providing support to the wider research community.
Examples of how these grants will be used include travel bursaries to support attendance at celebration events and international conferences. The Economic Geography Research Group conference grant will help an early career or otherwise precarious scholar to attend the Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG) at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Similarly, the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group will be using funding to support postgraduate researchers to attend their annual writing retreat, which creates a space for collaboration and supports writers across career stages and incomes.
Another stream of activity that will be supported through the grants include training days. The Participatory Geographies Research Group are planning to host a member-led training day in participatory walking approaches around Birmingham this spring, ahead of the Society’s Annual International Conference in the city in August.
Society funding will also be used to support the hosting of academic workshops and events. For example, the Carceral Geographies Working Group will host two linked events in Melbourne and Birmingham to facilitate discussions around de- and anti-colonial scholarship in carceral geographies.
We will share updates about these, and other grant-funded activities undertaken by our Research Groups throughout 2025.
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