The schemes are managed by the RIBA Education Department and assessed by subcommittees and working groups of the RIBA Education Trust Funds Committee. The combined support offered by the schemes came to a total of £55,000.

The following research prizes were awarded:

* Modern Architecture and Town Planning Trust award went to Mark Swenarton (£5,000 for the project "The housing programme of the London Borough of Camden under SAG Cook"), Pedro Alonso (£4,990 for "Social and industrial culture of Soviet large-concrete panel factories in Chile and Cuba"), and Nicholas Warner (£5,000 for "Somers Clarke and the revival of mudbrick architecture in Egypt")
* Historical Research Trust award went to Max Gane (£2,750 for the project "Breuer in Bristol"), and Alan Calder (£2,250 for "William Flockhart 1853-1913 Architect to the Nouveaux Riches")
* The RIBA LKE Ozolins Sudentship went to Henrik Schoenefeldt (£12,900 per academic year for a maximum of 3 years) for his PhD studies at the University of Cambridge on "Transformation of the Horticultural Glasshouse Prototype for Human Habitation"
* The RIBA Goldfinger Scholarship was awarded to Krisztina Csuport (£12,500 for an academic year) for an MArch in Energy & Environmental Studies at Mackintosh School of Architecture, The Glasgow School of Art
* The RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship (of £10,000) was awarded to Stefanie Rhodes, Bo Tang, and Shamoon Patwari for their joint project "Art, Urbanism, Architecture: Cultural space-making in Bosnia"

The RIBA also awarded the RIBA ICE McAslan Bursaries (£20,350) in June 2008, and approximately £10,000 from the RIBA Education Fund (for students in financial hardship) in the first half of the year, bringing the total given to support students and research in architecture in 2008 to approximately £85,000.