Society partners with research projects to advance geography

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The Society’s mission to ‘advance geographical science’ is at the core of our work and we are delighted to be partnering with a number of geographers, leading UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded research projects, to further our understanding of the world, its people, places and environments.

We are working with the project teams to disseminate the findings of the research to geography students in the UK and internationally through educational resources, to professionals through our Environment-Society event series, and the wider public through our public events programme. 

Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, Professor Dan Parsons at the University of Hull and Professor Steve Darby at the University of Southampton are leading the EvoFlood project which aims to develop a new generation of Global Flood Models. While Dr Nina Laurie at the University of St Andrews, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Global Challenges Research Fund, is leading an international team looking at the effects of El Niño on the lives of vulnerable groups in Peru.

Professor Katherine Brickell at Royal Holloway, University of London is leading a UKRI project bringing together an interdisciplinary team from Cambodia, India, the UK, and continental Europe to develop policy-relevant analysis to facilitate more equitable credit provisioning, to be used as a tool for climate resilience amongst rural communities in Cambodia and India. And Professor Gavin Bridge at Durham University, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is using social science methods to investigate the ongoing transformation of the UK's strategic position within global oil networks.

The Society is partnering with the Stay home stories project, led by Professor Alison Blunt at Queen Mary University of London, which aims to understand how ideas and experiences of home have changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are also supporting Dr Pat Noxolo, at the University of Birmingham, who is leading The Creative approaches to race and (in)security in the Caribbean and the UK research project, which aims to transform discussions about race and anti-racism in UK higher education institutions.

We will provide updates on the projects as they progress.