Fourteen projects were awarded funding by the Lord Rootes Memorial Fund Committee in 2013. For group projects, the lead applicant only is listed:

• Zeinb Agha: Shoot from the Lip
• James Christen: The Whissile: Designing and Building a Small Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engine
• Jamie Goodhart: The Antarctic Peninsular Expedition - details of student's photographic exhibition on campus reportLink opens in a new window
• John Halpin: Cycling Science Road Show: A Science Outreach Programme reportLink opens in a new window 
  
• Emilia Halton-Hernandez: Don Juan: The Life of a Spanish Oidor in Colombia reportLink opens in a new window
• Sam Jenkins: Drawing Back the Iron Curtain: Memory and Legacy from Szczecin to Trieste reportLink opens in a new window
• Luke Parry: World Rickshaw Taxi: Circumnavigation of the Globe by Rickshaw reportLink opens in a new window
• Tobias Pforr: Exploring Europe's supposed North-South Divide along the "Dream Path" from Munich to Venice reportLink opens in a new window
  
• Krzysztof Siczek: Lourdes, The Pyrenees and the Camino de Santiago - An Exploration of the Meaning of a Pilgrimage in the 21st Century - link to project blogLink opens in a new window (external) reportLink opens in a new window
• Aiesha Sriram: Coloured Cuisine: Origins and Influences reportLink opens in a new window
  
• Elliot Walker: An Expedition to Yangshauo, China report
  
• James Warner Smith: Canoeing the Continent 3000 miles from the Atlantic to the Black Sea - link to project website (external) report TEDx Talk**
• Louis Waterman-Evans: Following the Steps of Pheidippides. A Journey to Sparta in Search of the Reasons People Run Marathons and Beyond - link to project blog (external) reportLink opens in a new window**

**These reports received additional awards of £250 - £500 for being of outstanding calibre, at the discretion of the Committee.