Current Research Grants
Institute research staff currently hold grants of about £3.45 million, of which £860,000 is from the UK research councils.
Grants from UK Research Councils
Validation and provision of CryoSat-2 measurements of fluctuations in the Earth's land and marine ice fluxes
Source: Natural Environment Research Council, Grant NER/0/S/2003/00620
£319,635 (2004–2009)
Marine geophysical and geological investigations of past flow and stability of a major Greenland ice stream in the late Quaternary
Source: Natural Environment Research Council, Grant NE/D001986/1
£217,341 (2006–2010)
Understanding contemporary changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Source: Natural Environment Research Council, Grant NE/E005950/1
£165,878 (2007–2010)
Investigating basal conditions and flow dynamics on Vestfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard
Source: Natural Environment Research Council, Grant
NE/F011466/1
£53,258 (2008–2009)
Airborne geophysical exploration of central East Antarctica
Source: Natural Environment Research Council, Grant NF/F016646/1
£11,250 (2008–2012)
Determining the dynamic response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to climatic forcing using a geophysical, remote-sensing and numerical modelling framework
Source: Natural Environment Research Council, Grant NE/G00692X/1
£93,018 (2009–2012)
Grants from Other Sources
Arctic glaciers and their response to environmental change
Source: John Ellerman Foundation
£90,000 (2008–2011)
Permafrost changes in the Arctic
Source: ENI SPA
£521,744 (2008–2012)
Investigations into the impacts of environmental change on the glaciers and ice caps of the Arctic
Source: ConocoPhillips
£100,359 (2008–2011)
Negotiating pathways to adulthood: social change and indigenous culture in four circumpolar communities
Source: US National Science Foundation
£68,000 (2008–2009)
Management of Bar-coding data for the identification of Antarctic marine animals from genetic DNA
Source: Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research, CAML Barcoding Project
£45,578 (2007–2010)
HLF Stage 2 Museum Grant - Renovation of museum and archives: developing the Scott Polar Research Institute museum
Source: Heritage Lottery Fund, Grant HG-06-01385/2
£994,000 (2009–2012)
HLF Collecting Cultures Grant - Arctic visions: Inuit art and material culture
Source: Heritage Lottery Fund, Grant CC-07-011106
£200,000 (2008–2010)
Discovering the Poles: historic polar images 1845–1982 (Freeze Frame Project)
Source: Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Capital Programme: Digitisation
£422,070 (2007–2009)
Arctic Ocean Geopolitics
Sources: Judge Business School, World Wildlife Fund, Foundation for the Good Governance of International Spaces
£145,000 (2008–2010)
Baptist and Hindu conversions in tribal India: changing language, emotion and morality
Source: British Academy, Grant SG-49620
£7,460 (2008–2009)