| 2024 | Juliette Gautron William Nsuiban Gmayi Gabriel Ulrich Lennon | |
| 2023 | George Brill Róisín Kennelly Gabriella Santini | |
| 2022 | Stanley Jachike Onyemechalu Matthew Raj Webb | |
| 2021 | Anubhav Kaur Tim Loh Genevieve Sekumbo Anastasia Ulturgasheva Sean Wyer | |
| 2020 | Jonathan Lim Ellan Alethia Lincoln Hyde | |
| 2019 | Dominique Dillabough-Lefebvre Tomos Llywelyn Evans Dylan Gaffney Farah Qureshi | |
| 2018 | Nile A. Davies Lydia Gibson Renugan Raidoo Lauren Kaitlin Reid Ruth Simister | |
| 2017 | Jennifer Cearns Charles Radclyffe Fahad Rahman | |
| 2016 | Chioma Vivian Ngonadi Patrick Charles Jolicoeur Anna Sarkissian | |
| 2015 | Bronwyn Alison Isaacs Phill Wilcox Margaret-Ashley Veall | |
| 2014 | Emily Levitt | |
| 2013 | Luiseach Nic Eoin Nejm Benessaiah Constance Ruth Smith | |
| 2012 | Ian Michael Cook Eleanor Scerri | |
| 2011 | Brian Campbell Martin Tsang | |
| 2010 | Vita Peacock Antonia Knifton James Blinkhorn Bryn Trevelyan James Lauren Doughton | |
| 2009 | Nikolas Gestrich Konstantina Isidoros | |
| 2008 | Michael Berthin Jessica Sklair Alexander Pryor Debojyoti Das Kristen McConnachie Elizabeth Hodson | |
| 2007 | Alanna Cant Delwar Hussain Anthony John Pickles Jesse Ransley Eileadh Catriona Swan Philip Richardson | |
| 2006 | Doreen Gordon Katie Marie Manning Giovanni Orlando Elizabeth Saleh Sarah Vincent | |
| 2005 | Emma-Jayne Abbots Hannah L. Cobb Kwesi Sansculotte-Greenidge Diana Espirito Santo | |
| 2004 | Sarah Byrne Liana Cheng Lian Chua Timothy Andrew Robert Clack Conrad Justin Feather Linda Scarangella Shilpa Tiwari Thomas Widger | |
| 2003 | Sarah Katharine Croucher Gavin Macarthur Anna Cristina Pertierra | |
| 2002 | Janet Elisabeth Childerhouse Amit Desai Nicola Frost Martina Tyrrell | |
| 2001 | Lim Khek Gee Francis Nicola Frost Mandira Kalra Evan Killick Howard Potter Tanya Richardson Elizabeth Mei-Li Roberts | |
| 2000 | Mark Elliott Suzanne Grant Tobias Kelly Chantal Knowles John Owiti Benedicta Rousseau Fiona Scorgie Remi Warner | |
| 1999 | Hassan Wario Arero Mark-Anthony Falzon Alison Louise Hoare Anne Charlotte Jepson Kriti Kapila Hayley Nan MacGregor David Menell David Prendergast Jamshid Johari Tehrani Graeme Were | |
| 1998 | Nicole Lise Boivin Sea Ling Cheng Olga Demetriou Alfiani Fadzakir Vincent Goldberg Katrin Hansing Amiria Salmond Paul Twinn Marie-Katherine Waller | |
| 1997 | Pierre Sean Brotherton Shelley Ruth Butler Peter David Jordan Anouska Fairlie Komlosy Nayanika Mookherjee Bethan Jane Morgan Rosie Read Trevor Stack Michael Taylor Abba Isa Tijani Soumhya Venkatesan | |
| 1996 | Kim Fleet Matthew Frankland Rachael Jane Sara Gooberman-Hill Peran David Milyan [Mils] Hills Lorne Todd Holyoak Kun-Hui Ku Siew Hoon Pamela Loke Basanda Kumar Mohanta Losang Chodon Rabgey Dennis Rogers Judith Ann Sim Marcia Ann Scott Taylor | |
| 1995 | Stephanie Joan Bunn Sandra Dudley Gwyneira L. Isaac Stephen William Kidd Victoria Malkin Ingrid Citlalli Putkonen Patrick Muyendekwa Sikana Mary Summers Thompson Kirsten Wehner Michael Joseph Wilmore | |
| 1994 | Jason Pierre Bottomley Daniel Brockington Camilla Cecilia Telford Gibb David Shane Mills Maithilie Mohapatra Adam Douglas Evelyn Reed Benjamin Richard Smith Sian Sullivan Robyn Ann Thompson Ceri Willmott | |
| 1993 | Rachel Baker Tony Crook Yvette Duveken Evers Timothy Alexander Insoll Jerome Lewis Margaret MacLean Alan Passes Terence Robin Rupert Roopnaraine Mary Ryan | |
| 1992 | Andrea Cornwall – Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Eleanor Fisher – Swansea University Roxanne Parvez Hakim – World Bank (was first RAI Urgent Anthropology Fellow) John A. Harries – University of Edinburgh Vibha Joshi – MPI / Oxford University Eva Lynn Mackey – Carleton University Shanthi Thambiah | |
| 1991 | Lissant M. Bolton Sufian H. Bukurura Bartholomew Crispin Dean Myra Beatrice Hunt Mark Angus Jamieson Paul Oldham Euphemia Amy Lundius Porter Richard Ian Rudgley Alison Mary Tierney Francis P. Watkins | |
| 1990 | Monisha Ahmed Astrid E. Bonfield Kevin Nicholas Dawe Julia D. Harrison Chapurukha Makokha Kusimba Ioannis Papadakis Judith Elisabeth Robinson Penny Vera-Sanso | |
| 1989 | Russell B. Adams Daniel Anghiros Tuula Heinonen Colin E. Huehns Andrew Mudd Stevie M. Nangendo Margaret Lynne Sarkissian Daniel William Sellen | |
| 1988 | Naomi Brown Charlotte Jane Herxheimer Gill Juleff – University of Exeter Caroline Karslake Nicholas John Saunders John Snyder | |
| 1987 | Jeremy Coote Henry Seidu Daanaa Elizabeth M. Francis Catherine M. Hill Karen L. Jacobs Elena Kingdon | |
| 1986 | Susan Elizabeth Atkins M. Robertson Deborah Rutter J. Salmons Peter Sutherland | |
| 1985 | A. Bennett Nancee Oku Bright Penny Dransart Manuela M.M.M. Palmeirim | |
| 1984 | B.A.P. Alvey I.A.S. Ewart Geoffery Griffith Melissa Parker Ken Teague A.S. Vincent | |
| 1983 | P. Cloudsley Jeremy Coote Caroline Malone (with S. Stoddart) Alison McQuitty Keith Nicklin P. Sinha Nick Thorpe Natalie Tobert Kevin Waldie | |
| 1982 | Ben Burt J.C.W. Davison C.M.W. Ho Jeremy MacClancy Mary C. Marlow J. Openshaw Catherine Panter-Brick Chris Pinney R. Sharma | |
| 1981 | H.A. Coulby T.J.M. Holman Colin M. Kirk I.M. MacLagan M.S.B. Mehta M.C. Phylactou D.A. Taylor Christina Toren I.P. Whitelaw S.J. York | |
| 1980 | S. Chahal A.N. Duff-Cooper Patti Langton N. Mills Carole Pegg S. Stoddart P. Stuart-Macadam G.E. Townsley | |
| 1979 | B.J.A. Anderson Ben Burt J.H.J. Cable M.E.M. Colchester K. Crehan Barry Dufour C.T. Ivey | |
| 1978 | Terence T. Booth Mrs A.I. Buckley Richard S. Hogg Mrs Shobhita Jain P.B. Roscoe | |
| 1977 | H. Beattie R. Blench Robert Dodd Miss P. Logan Miss R. Shaw Piers Vitebsky | |
| 1976 | Gregory J. Hurworth Steven J. Phelps Alan E. Smith Michael R. Smith | |
| 1975 | Tandy Clausen Michael Donmall Robert Foley Rosaleen Howard David Mearns Michael Stephen Philip Townshend Susan Wright | |
| 1974 | Paul Henley Helen Macbeth Abd-Rehman Madha Peter Robertshaw Peter Rosa | |
| 1973 | Patricia Carter Diana Colvin Elena Lieven Jeune Scott-Kemball Paul Sillitoe Hazel Weymes | |
| 1972 | Monica Jackson Amina Farrag Minns Michele A. Schoenberger Mrs M. Scott Philip L.B. Stevens Jeremy Swift | |
| 1971 | Joan Buckley Margret Carey Colin Filer Jeremy Greenland Katherine Homewood Kerry James Angela Susan Jameson Harry Alastair Lamb Jonathan Pollock Simonette Rattenbury Pauline Ryan Andrew Sherratt Catherine Young | |
| 1970 | Christine Dunster Colin Groves Mark Hobart Timothy Ingold Diana M. Lancaster George A. Michell Marjorie H. Stewart Michael John Walker Janet M. Willoughby | |
| 1969 | Victor Alan Clarke Peter Rodney Lattin André Felix Vitus Singer Michael Stanton Andrew and Jo Turton | |
| 1968 | Jacob Misha Black Michael Francis Charles Bourdillon Jeffrey Hewitt Pollitt Evans Antony Francis Gell John Charles Harriss Jeremy Hugh Keenan Michael Keith Wallington | |
| 1967 | Marianne Vere Cardale David John Chivers John Digby Hearn Collinson Louise Helen M. Hogg David Paul Lumsden Paul Francis Wilkinson | |
| 1966 | Maurice Emile Felix Bloch Malcolm Bruce Corrie Roger Charles Gomm Graham George Jackson Adam Jonathan Kuper Sylvia Grace Moore Andrew Dale Sanders Donald Bertram Tayler Caroline Waddington (Humphrey) | |
| 1965 | Virginia Rose Cecilia Luling Malcolm Donald McLeod Jonathan Hugh Musgrave Jonathan Patrick Parry Ursula Marion Sharma Richard Lionel Tapper Nicolas Edward Wincott | |
| 1964 | Andrew Baring Audrey Boorne Robert Brain Simon Edward Mitchell John Llywelyn Wynne Williams | |
| 1963 | Geoffrey Benjamin Revd. John Berrell David Hendrick McCarroll Brooks James Harvey Chaplin Ann Marilyn Evans (Strathern) John Ellis Lavers Katrin Norris (Fitzherbert) David Charles Pitt | |
| 1962 | Elizabeth Ann Bell John Michael Goodliffe John Douglas Kesby Andrew Jamieson Strathern | |
| 1961 | Alison Hope Redmayne S.B.W. Wickremasekera Roy Geoffrey Willis | |
| 1960 | Ruth Hilary Finnegan Baboojee Saraswathy Panniker James Campbell Woodburn Evelyn Rachel Yeld | |
| 1959 | Donald Neil Abbott Raymond Ernst Clausen Mphiwa Buxton Mbatha Paul Spencer Mary Teresa Spens | |
| 1958 | Rusiate Raibosa Nayacakalou Jitendra Pal Singh | |
| 1957 | John Anthony Waldo Forge David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis | |
| 1956 | John Antony Randoll Blacking William Robin Gray Horton Colin MacMillan Turnbull Robert Leonard Wishlade | |
| 1955 | Terry Barrow Rosemary Lois Harris Annie Margaret McArthur Alice Joan Metge James Spillius Absalom Vilakazi | |
| 1954 | No awards | |
| 1953 | No awards | |
| 1952 | No awards | |
| 1951 | Alexander Timothy Carey | |
| 1950 | Robert Elwyn Bradbury Elinor Russell MacHatton | |
| 1949 | Francis John Heathorn Huxley David Peter Morton-Williams Edna B.D.B. Payn Henry Arthur Powell | |
| 1948 | Audrey Joan Butt Judith Djamour Douglas Peter Lloyd Dry | |
| 1947 | Cyril Shirley Belshaw Emrys Lloyd Peters | |
| 1946 | Vernon George Sheddick Barbara Elsie Ward | |
| 1945 | Mary Danielli Irawati Karvé Eva Meyerowitz | |
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