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Research Grants

The Society offers grants to actively support and promote geographical research, contributing to the advancement of knowledge in the discipline of Geography.
 

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Grants Available

Dorothy Pyatt Postgraduate Research Grants provide financial support to high-achieving postgraduate research students specialising in Geography. The Grants will support research work for two successful candidates each year - one annual award for research to be conducted within Australia, and one annual award for research to be conducted outside Australia.  More information and details of applications  are available here.

Library Research Fellowship program was created in 2023 to give scholars from around the world an opportunity to pursue their work in proximity to a distinguished collection of primary sources. Up to three fellowships are awarded each year for periods of time usually ranging from two to four weeks. Fellowships are open to Australian and international researchers.  More information and details of applications are available here.

  • Annie Burrett (PhD student, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney) ‘Australia’s history of telegraph development’ Four weeks in June
  • Dr. Susan Caldis (School of Education, Macquarie University) ‘Geography in Australian Schools: Understanding how a professional association and its connection with public societies can shape geography education’ Two weeks in April; two weeks in July.
  • Dr. Sophie Mew (independent researcher, London) ‘The collections and legacy of Stephen William Silver, founder of the York Gate Geographical and Colonial Library’ Two weeks in November.
  • Professor Michael Roche (Massey University, New Zealand) ‘‘Exploring Geographers’ networks 1888 to 1923, with particular reference to the place of the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia in the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science’. One week in April One week in September.

  • Dr Melina Ey (University of Newcastle, New South Wales) ‘Environmental histories of non-human survival and encounter on colonised lands (beginning with the Black Swan)’ June 2025
  • Professor Marc Serge Rivière (University of Limerick, Ireland) ‘“The difference in value”: Women Travellers’ perceptions of travelling at sea and ports of call, such as Port Jackson and Mauritius, in their nineteenth-century travel narratives’ March 2025
  • Assoc Prof James L Wilson (Northern Illinois University) ‘An Australian 19th Century Botanical Community of Practice Network’ July 2025

Professor Don Albert Evaluating Maude’s and Hooker’s HMS Bounty Tracks after Leaving Tahiti on September 22, 1789 July 2024

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