Each year, up to 70 grants are awarded in support of geographical research, fieldwork, and teaching, both in the UK and overseas.
In 2017, £204,000 of funding supported 66 research projects involving over 134 individuals. Grant recipients carried out research in 41 countries across the world, from ever-popular fieldwork destinations like Iceland and Norway, to places very rarely visited by Society grant recipients, such as Tajikistan and Haiti. Student expedition teams, postgraduates and senior researchers alike studied a great variety of topics, from urban forestry in Accra to ice loss on Annapurna South Glacier in Nepal.