At the recent meeting of the RICS Education Trust, the projects listed on this page were awarded funding.

As usual, the Trustees received a large number of high quality applications for funding.

Urban farming - a sustainable solution to reduce solid waste problems in Dar es Salaam city. Hawa Mkwela, UCLAS, Tanzania

An overview and the prospects of Ghana's real estate market. Noah Karley, Heriot Watt University, Scotland, UK

Defining property rights in the contemporary urban commons: a case study of Darling Harbour, Sydney. Spike Boydell, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

The application of GIS to analyse occupier chains and property market filtering. Paul Greenhalgh, University of Northumbria, UK

Private Governments’ Impacts on House Value (PhD sponsorship). Huanghai Li, University of Southern California, USA

Addressing housing poverty for low-income groups by developing pro-poor tools. Diane Dumashie, Dumashie Associates, UK

RICS/U21 ‘Explore/Achieve’ Overseas Study Programme. Nick Hudson, RICS Oceania
 

RICS/Worshipful Company of Constructors Scholarship. (collaborative funding award)

The deadline for the next set of grant applications is 30 September 2007. For further details on any of the projects awarded in this funding round, please contact:

Amy Roberts
Research Officer
RICS Communications
T +44 (0)20 7334 3750 F +44 (0)20 7334 3795
E aroberts@rics.org.