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Grants to Expeditions and Fieldwork
The Trust has supported a huge number of expeditions and field work,
not many of them being large projects. However, in 1986 the
Trust supported the Royal Geographical Society's major project in the Wahiba
Sands of Oman.
The Trust supported the following expeditions and fieldwork in recent
years:
Oxford University: Community Roles and Statuses in Kyrgzstan £500
Cambridge University: Expedition to Tomsk Taiga, Siberia £400
Universities of Edinburgh and Durham: Ifakara 2007 £850
Oxford University: Oriental Tibet 2007 £500
Glasgow University: Ecuador £900
Brighton University: Expedition to Madagascar £300
2010 expeditions being supported:
Expedition Huaraz 2010 - University of Edinburgh £500
Philippines 2010 Expedition - University of Aberdeen £500
Kahua Expedition 2010 - University of St Andrews £1,000
Schools Award Scheme with the Geographical Association
In recent years the Frederick Soddy Trust has provided the funds for
the joint Schools Award Scheme with the Geographical Association
www.geography.org.uk.
Successful applicants in 2009/2010 were:
- Aston Comprehensive School £500
- Aston Manor School £500
- Bristol Grammar School £280
- St Louis Catholic Middle School £750
- Wakefield City High School £840
 Kate
Edgecombe from St Andrew's Primary School, Stafford
after she had received her award from Professor Bill Mead,
a Trustee of the Frederick Soddy Trust in 2009. The presentation
was made at the Geographical Association's Annual Conference.
Go the Extra Mile 2009
Primary School Fieldwork competition
The winners for 2009 were:
Years 3 and 4: Perton First School. £250 for
teaching geography & prizes for the winning pupils
Years 5 and 6: All Saints CE Primary School.
£250 for teaching geography & prizes for the winning pupils
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of the map from Perton First
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Why not try for the
Go the Extra Mile 2010
Primary School Fieldwork competition?
Grants to Universities
The Trust has supported a range of written work
from professional publications to typescripts. One of the first
projects to receive support was the late Professor Terry Coppock's "An Agricultural
Atlas of Scotland". This was alongside support from the Carnegie, Leverhulme and MacRobert Trusts.
In the 1960s The Trust financed a Research Fellowship at the
University of Sussex which was the beginning of a fruitful
relationship between that University and the Trust. Dr Barry
Wood was the first to be awarded the Fellowship, carrying out a study
of Crawley New Town. Many followed him at Sussex, including
Professor A J Fielding and Professor Fred Gray. Dr Linda Merricks wrote
the biography of Soddy "The World Made New: Frederick Soddy,
Science, Politics, and Environment" as a Frederick Soddy Research
Fellow while she was at the University of Sussex. So there has
been a long connection between the Trust and the University of Sussex.
In more recent times the Trust's support to a university has been in
the form of a fixed grant to the project rather than an effort to
cover the more variable and rising costs of a fellowship.
A recent university research project supported by the Trust was
by Will Pilfold on "The life and work of Sir L Dudley Stamp,
1898-1966". The studentship was located in the Department of
Geography at the University of Sussex.
Of particular interest to the Trust in the report was Stamp's Land Use
Survey 1930-1934.
Birkbeck College www.bbk.ac.uk
In 2006 to 2008 the Trust supported a study of 'Slovene Studies' and
sustainability, Solčavska 75 years after Stamp.
The Institute of Education
www.ioe.ac.uk Cataloguing and indexing geography teaching
and learning materials. Portsmouth
University. Long-run Land Use Change in Britain 1869 to
2000.
The Post Graduate Award Scheme
The Frederick Soddy Postgraduate Award. The 2010 Award of
£6,000 went to Evelyn Landerer from the Scott Polar Research
Institute. She is spending a year to study the Evenki people who
walk and hunt in the forests of eastern Siberia.
Grants to Learned Societies
The Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG)
www.rgs.org has received two grants
from the Trust. One of these was to support, with a grant of
£6,500, brochures promoting careers in geography. They are both on line and in hard copy, one brochure for 13-16 age range, and
the other for 17-21 year olds. The other was a grant of £5,000
towards a display, 'Lost Landscapes', in the Society's new pavilion.
The Geographical Association
www.geography.org.uk has
received support from the Trust for two projects for schools.
The Association is greatly concerned about the variability of the
standard of teaching geography in schools, especially of geography in
primary schools.
The Geographical Association received support to develop and trial a "Quality
Mark" for primary geography. This Quality Mark included
criteria on teaching activities, learning activities, and curriculum
contents. The grant was of £5,000.
The Geographical Association also received support for a project to produce a pocket pamphlet on "Geography from
Square One" for those teachers who have had little training themselves
in the subject. This was a grant of £5,000 from the
Trust.
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