The JC Dawes Bursary offers £2000 to finance travel and subsistence on a research or study programme into wastes management or related subjects. The award is open to Chartered Waste Managers (MCIWM and FCIWM) for a study programme in a country other than that in which they normally reside.

2009 - Victoria Bond - Zero Waste in New Zealand

2008 - Janice Frost - Assessment of the Delivery and Management of Recycling and Reprocessing Activities at Resource Recovery Parks in Califoria and Seattle, USA.

2007 - Toni Gladding - International study on Alternate Weekly Collection, evaluating experiences in Canada and the Netherlands in the context of schemes running in the UK.

2006 - Simon Read - Programme of capacity and Partnership building in Nkonkobe, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

2005 - Paul Williams - Healthcare Waste in Canada and Finland

2004 - Martin Petersen - Feasibility study to assess the potential economic, environmental and social benefits from the implementation and subsequent operation of demolition materials recycling activities in Sri Lanka

2003 - Bill Butterworth - Monitoring long term effects of recycling wastes to productive land

2002 - Duncan Martin - Mathematical model to predict rates of anaerobic digestion of wastes in landfill – Georgia, Atlanta

2001 - Philip Rushbrook - Sustainable Waste Management Advances in India and their potential for adoption in the NIS