Geog On… ‘the city’, ‘remote sensing’ and ‘ecosystem services’

May 20, 2013

After a slightly long Easter break Geog On… catches up with itself with three new podcasts…   On the city: Alex Vasudevan talks about contemporary urban geography   On remote sensing: Doreen Boyd discusses remote sensing and the amazing data you can get from cctv cameras!   On environmental services: Jamie Tratalos  talks to Matt about the work …

A day in the life of a Geographer – John Pearson

May 8, 2013

Many thanks to former Geography student John Pearson for providing us with another blog about his current career. ‘One of the constant features of working in an Embassy abroad is receiving high level visitors. Over the last few months, I have been heavily involved in that. In March, Lord Stephen Green (Minister for Trade and Investment) visited …

Globall 2013

May 3, 2013

“Welcome to the mystery of the masquerade ball – a night full of secrets and desire.” GeogSoc hosted their annual ‘Globall’ on Tuesday 30th April at the stunningly beautiful Albert Hall, Nottingham. The masquerade theme went down a treat, with a fabulous selection of Venetian masks to be spotted across the room. The 186 guests …

Careers “Speed Dating” with the School of Geography

April 30, 2013

Simon Gosling, Lecturer in Climate Change and the School of Geography Careers Rep, talks about a unique careers networking event he organised with students last week.  Last Friday evening saw the first School of Geography Careers Networking Event. It was jointly organised between the School of Geography and GeogSoc, the student Geography society. Over 100 …

Geog On to Easter

March 22, 2013

Geog On has been continuing with it’s engaging and entertaining short interviews over the past couple of weeks.  Recentaly Matt has been  discussing global scale biodiversity with Adam Algar and this week he has been chatting with Isla Forsyth about critical military geography. To catch up with our latest offerings either listen via iTunes U or the links below; …

And we think the weather is cold in Nottingham…

March 7, 2013

We have had an update from our staff currently working on research in Siberia. A new NERC funded project is investigating recent environmental change in the World’s deepest lake, using silicon isotopes. Lake Baikal, which formed over 20 million years ago, is the world’s most voluminous lake, containing c. 20% of its freshwater. This “most …

Views of the World: Geog On… Retail Geography

March 4, 2013

The Geog On… podcasts are back for their 2013 season, focussing on the different ways Geographers view the world. The first podcast features Amber Martin talking about her work on the  the feminisation of the sex shop industry and can be found here. Please note this podcast contains adult themes and may not be suitable for …

A day in the life of a Geographer … John Pearson

December 21, 2012

All I Know About Mexico… I am still a relatively new blogger on this site. My first entry, a few months ago, was written while I was working at  the British High Commission in Singapore, dealing with climate change and low carbon technologies in South East Asia. Since then I have experienced one of the …

Happy Christmas from the Geog Blog…

Just a quick note to wish all our readers all the best for the festive season and a  happy and peaceful 2013. One of the the privileges of being a geographer is having friends all over the world and for some of them the lack of peace is a real issue at the moment, our thoughts are with them …

A day in the life of a geographer…Amber Martin

December 7, 2012

This week I’ve been working on an empirical chapter of my thesis all about the tensions between public and private space in sex shops and erotic boutiques. I’m looking at things such as how shops are legally required to have blanked out windows (see pic!) and also how the internal geographies of shops alters according …