Posts by Matt
Beauty and the bog
September 17, 2019
David Beckingham writes after one of our days walking last week… The noted guide to the fells and moors Alfred Wainwright didn’t enjoy his time on the Pennine Way, or the weather at any rate. Reading a well-worn B&B copy over breakfast in Padfield, with rain closing in, it was hardly encouraging to learn of his …
The importance of a good field hat!
September 11, 2019
I’m nursing a coffee in Hebden Bridge, looking out at the drizzly remnants of Hurricane Dorian that wrought such devastation on communities across the Atlantic, but offers us only the prospect of damp waterproofs over the next few hours. We are currently about to begin Day 8 (Hebden Bridge – Cowling, 27km) of our walk …
Our walk so far…
September 10, 2019
We’re 6 days into our 9 day, 135 mile walk from the School of Geography to Malham, in time for our second year Physical Geography module. It’s been quite the journey, 91 miles done so far, there’s been highs and lows, topographically and emotionally… plenty of opportunity for geographic word play on this trip!! Also …
Economic Geography in the Field
September 3, 2019
Field study has long been a vital component of geography as a discipline and plays a central role in geographical education and research throughout secondary schools and universities. Indeed, fieldwork has been viewed as an ‘initiation ritual of the discipline’ [1] and as a ‘locus of becoming’ [2] – it has come to define the …
Celebrating Fieldwork
September 2, 2019
Field trips are up there with pencil crayons as a stereotype of Geography, for many of us who have made the subject our career it is one of the things (along with the colouring in) that engaged us with the subject in the first place and kept us hooked. This month we’ve dug through …
Researcher Links Workshop – Jordan April 2019
February 12, 2019
Call for participants from Jordan to workshop on: Water Resources: management and sustainability in Jordan from pre-history to the future. Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council and Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology will be holding a workshop on the above theme in Amman, Jordan from the …
2016: A blog of blogs
December 19, 2016
As ever members of the School of Geography have been busy in 2016 and here we have collated, in no particular order, some of the many blogs relating to research from the School this year to give an idea of what we do. Do stay tuned to The Geog Blog for more news and updates in 2017. …
Unwanted cargo: Disease and climate along the Silk Road
December 5, 2016
Matt Jones and Christina Lee blog about their workshop in the summer to discuss disease and the environment. The blog first appeared @ http://inqua.org/blog/2016/06/24/unwanted-cargo-disease-and-climate-along-the-silk-road/ Recent coverage of the Zika and Ebola outbreaks has again highlighted the uncertainties and fears of people regarding epidemics, as well as the need to understand cultural practices. There is now more than ever a …
35th International Geological Congress 27 Aug – 4 Sept 2016, Cape Town, South Africa
November 17, 2016
Dr Sev Kender blogs about attending the International Geological Congress in South Africa In August 2016 I set off for the amazing Cape Town (Photo 1, above), South Africa, to attend the 35th International Geological Congress (http://www.35igc.org/). This is one of the largest and most important geoscience conferences in the world that takes place every …
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2016
November 16, 2016
Jake Hodder blogs about this year’s RGS-IGB conference Under the beautiful, late August sun, hundreds of geographers (myself included) descended on the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). The RGS-IBG is the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, founded in 1830, and its annual, international conference is the centrepiece of …
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