Research Group highlights from 2022

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Over the last year, the Society’s 31 Research Groups have undertaken a wealth of activities, including events to share emerging research, provide support for early-career and postgraduate members, and facilitate teaching and learning across different areas of the discipline.

They have also produced digital resources including blog posts, book reviews, and newsletters, alongside running networks, book and writing clubs, and activities to provide career support to their members such as mentoring schemes.

A selection of their activities in 2022 is below.

Research events:

• Work in Progress series run by the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group

• Spatial analytics and data seminar series by the Quantitative Methods Research Group in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute

• Webinar series run by the GiScience Research Group

• Mapping the landscape of climate geography by the Climate Change Research Group

• Transport Geography Research Group Expert Panel

Events supporting early-career and postgraduate members:

• The future for tourism and leisure fieldwork in times of crises by the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group

• Early careers research seminars run by the Political Geography Research Group

• The Inaugural Dr Azeezat Johnson Annual Workshop by the Race, Culture and Equality Working Group

• Quantitative methods in energy geographies by the Energy Geography Research Group

Events supporting teaching and learning:

• Decolonising teaching in food geographies by the Food Geographies Research Group

• Teaching and Scholarship (TeaS) Forum run by the Geography and Education Research Group

Digital resources:

• Regularly updated blog by the Latin American Geographies Research Group

• Book reviews by the Carceral Geography Working Group

• Work in Progress video series by the Digital Geography Research Group

• Research series by the Historical Geography Research Group

Other activities:

• Population Geography Research Group writing group

• Rural Geography Research Group book club

• Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group mentoring scheme

• Career aspirations and trajectories for UK health geographers survey run by the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group

Find out more about the Society’s 31 Research groups, including links to their webpages where you can read about the full range of their activities.