HGRG Small Conference and Seminar Funding

Guidelines for Conference and Seminar Programme Funding
Organisers may apply for grants or loans up to a max. of £250.

a. Funding Regulations
i. the applicant should be a HGRG member;
ii. all publicity materials and resultant publications acknowledge HGRG support;
iii. the organising committee give an assurance that any money not used will be returned;
iv. the grant is used to fund the travel costs and conference attendance;
v. a minimum of £50 is used to fund postgraduate attendance;
vi. all funded postgraduates join the HGRG;
vii. conference organisers provide a financial statement regarding use of the money;
viii. conference organisers provide a short conference report of 300 words for the HGRG newsletter.

b. Grant application procedures
Application forms are available from the Secretary and on the HGRG website (follow the link above). Please complete the application in typescript throughout.

c. Grant application deadline
The deadline for receipt of grant applications is 1 December in any one year.

d. Notification of response
All applications for support will be discussed at the annual autumn committee meeting which takes place on or near 20th October. Applicants should normally expect to hear the outcome of their bid within two weeks of the autumn committee meeting.

e. Award procedure
Once the Honorary Secretary has received confirmation that the applicant can comply with the regulations, the grant will be sent to the applicant by the Hon. Treasurer.

f. Deadline for reports
A financial statement regarding use of awarded funds should be sent to the Honorary Treasurer by 1 September.

A conference report of 300 words for the HGRG newsletter should be sent to the Honorary Publicity Officer by 1 June, 1 October, or 1 February depending on which falls first after the conference has taken place.

In addition the committee encourages all those who receive conference funding from HGRG to consider the HGRG Research Series as a possible publication outlet for conference material. The Honorary Editor of the research series welcomes enquiries in this respect.

Applicants in any doubt about their eligibility or any other aspect of their application are advised to contact the HGRG Chair, Dr Nicola Thomas, or Secretary, Dr Harriet Hawkins, who will be pleased to help.

HGRG Postgraduate Support Scheme

Guidelines for Conference and Seminar Programme Funding
Postgraduates may apply to HGRG for support for travel to research sources or conferences up to a max. of £100.

Priority may be given to those whose grants do not include provision for conference fees or travel.

a. Funding regulations
i. those applying for financial support are HGRG members;
ii. that alternative sources of funding should be investigated;
iii. those who have received HGRG support are not eligible to make further applications

b. Application procedures
Application forms are available from the Secretary and on the HGRG website. Please complete the application in typescript throughout. Applicants may, if they wish, paste word-processed text on to the printed application form; or they may reproduce the entire form in a convenient word-processing package, provided that the layout and content of the printed version are followed exactly.

c. Application deadline
The deadline for receipt of grant applications is 1 April in any one year.

d. Notification of response
All applications for postgraduate support are discussed at the annual spring committee meeting which takes place in April/May. Applicants should normally expect to hear the outcome of their bid within two weeks of the spring meeting.

e. Award procedure
Once the Secretary has received confirmation that the applicant can comply with the regulations, the grant will be sent to the applicant by the Treasurer.

f. Deadline for reports
A financial statement regarding use of awarded funds should be sent to the Honorary Treasurer by 1 September.

A report of 300 words should be sent to the Honorary Publicity Officer by 1 June, 1 October, or 1 February depending on which falls first after the conference has taken place or research been completed.

Applicants in any doubt about their eligibility or any other aspect of their application are advised to contact the HGRG Chair, Dr Nicola Thomas, or Secretary, Dr Harriet Hawkins, who will be pleased to help.

HGRG Postgraduate Support for Attendance at ICHG

Applicants in any doubt about their eligibility or any other aspect of their application are advised to contact the HGRG Chair, Dr Nicola Thomas, or Secretary, Dr Harriet Hawkins, who will be pleased to help.

The Historical Geography Research Group, in association with Ashgate, is pleased to offer a prize to the best undergraduate dissertation in any area of historical geography which is based upon original research and which demonstrates conceptual and/or methodological sophistication. The successful prize winner will receive £200 of Ashgate-published books, and will be invited to submit an article based upon their dissertation for publication in the Journal of Historical Geography (subject to the standard refereeing procedures of that periodical). The winner will also be invited to present their work at the annual HGRG Practising Historical Geography Conference in November.

Dissertations should normally be of first-class standard and nominated by Heads of Department / Examination Boards / dissertation supervisors as appropriate. Departments should not submit more than one dissertation for consideration.

Submissions (unmarked hardcopy and accompanying PDF where
possible) should be sent to: Dr Innes M. Keighren, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, EGHAM, TW20 0EX (innes.keighren@rhul.ac.uk). Deadline: 8 July 2011.

The RGS-IBG Research and Higher Education Division has limited funds available specifically to support research activity by Research Groups. HGRG policy with regard to this scheme, prioritised as follows, is:

1. to apply for annual support for our yearly undergraduate and postgraduate conference;

2. to continue to apply every three years for support for postgraduate attendance at the International Conference of Historical Geographers;

3. to co-ordinate other applications for RGS-IBG funding that are submitted to the committee.

While we are already committed to submitting two regular funding applications, we welcome (under 3 above) additional requests for funding from members or suggestions about other research activities which could benefit from this scheme. Since funds are limited it is unlikely that HGRG will be able to submit any more than three separate bids in any one year.

To ensure democratic access to funding sources and benefits, requests made to HGRG to support a funding application to the Research and Higher Education Division Committee should:

• meet our usual Conference and Seminar Programme Funding Regulations
  
• follow the format of normal applications for HGRG funding

These requests or recommendations should be sent to the Hon. Secretary by 1 September in any one year. For further information and detailed guidelines for applying for HGRG funding, please contact the Hon. Secretary, Dr Harriet Hawkins.