Research Group news: July 2021

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The Society’s 32 Research Groups bring together active researchers and those with a professional interest in a particular aspect of geography and related disciplines. They each support and promote their area of geography through organising events, offering dissertation prizes, and providing support and funding for postgraduates.

Here is a round up of their recent activity: 

• The Energy Geographies Research Group ran webinars on Decarbonisation and its Discontents with Benjamin Sovacool, and Cracking Appalachia: A Political-Industrial Ecology Perspective with Jenn Baka.

• Luc Anselin and Helen Couclelis were interviewed by members of the Quantitative Methods Research Group as part of the SAD Interview series.

• Sarah Battersby delivered a lecture titled ‘One Map to Rule Them All’, and Taylor Shelton delivered a lecture titled ‘Mapping the opaque: embracing fuzziness, uncovering inequalities’ as part of the Geographic Information Science Research Group webinar series.

• The Participatory Geographies Research Group held a two-day virtual workshop, which looked at challenges, opportunities and new directions in the field of participatory geography.

• The Geography and Education Research Group held a free online event for teachers and students on ‘Student Transitions: Journeys into and through Geography at University’.

• The Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group held a panel and Q&A that addressed the challenges of navigating the postdoctoral job market.

• The first seminar in the Carceral Geography Working Group’s new series took place on Thursday 17 June. The series aims to share emerging research in carceral geography, and encourage networking between researchers of all levels.

• Recently, the Transport Geography Research Group unveiled their new website. The new website hosts significantly more material, including a large number of book reviews, and a write up of their joint session with the GFGRG at the PGF Mid-Term Conference.

• The Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group held a virtual event on methodology workshops, which provided postgraduate students with the chance to network and explore different ways of maximising the impact of a PhD.

• The final workshop in the Food Geographies Research Group seminar series Decolonising Food Geographies was hosted by Bangor University, on the theme of land, food heritage and power.

Find out more about our Research Groups and their work.