Posts by Matt
Environment Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (and a bit about the West African Monsoon!)
November 28, 2014
Former Nottingham Geography student Rachael Lem has just started the second year of her NERC funded PhD within the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool. There’s more about Rachael’s PhD at the foot of this post, where Rachael tells us what she’s been up to in Liverpool alongside her PhD work… ‘We are …
Music – bringing people together
Geography alumnus John Pearson, now of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, returns to the Geog Blog with a final report from his posting to Mexico. John will return to the Geog Blog in the new year and let us know how he’s settling back into life in the UK and his new role at the …
GeogSoc on Geog Blog…
November 21, 2014
Thanks to Kieran Phelan and his GeogSoc committee for their post below… It’s an extremely busy time of year for all at University! Whilst it’s wonderful to see the vacation period, with all its very exciting festivities, appearing on the horizon, it’s still a very stressful period, filled with coursework, internship and graduate scheme deadlines! …
Fieldwork Week!
November 14, 2014
Week seven of semester one is Fieldwork Week… Lectures are put on hold to allow students and staff to get out and undertake fieldwork without interrupting their lecture and practical classes. Last week our students were in Berlin, at the British Geological Survey, and out and about on various reaches and hillsides across the UK; …
From Windermere to Malaysia…
November 7, 2014
PhD student Heather Moorhouse blogs from Malaysia… Now in my fourth and final year, I have begun the most feared period of the PhD process, the big Thesis write-up (or the big T for short). I recently returned home from three years in Nottingham to write-up my findings on my PhD project which looks at …
New research facility the “Centre for Environmental Geochemistry”…
November 4, 2014
Our new Professor of Isotope Geoscience Prof. Melanie Leng introduces the new centre… This year saw the opening of a new research facility in Nottingham, the Centre for Environmental Geochemistry. The Centre brings together existing geochemical facilities and groups within the University of Nottingham and the British Geological Survey (out at Keyworth). The CEG aims …
From John Pearson … The Transport of the Future: selling UK vehicle expertise to Mexico
December 20, 2013
Mexico is now the eighth largest vehicle producer in the world. It is getting a lot of attention as more companies set up production facilities here. Just last month, the Mexican media was full of plans for Audi to build its first production plant in Mexico, in Puebla. This will be the first “premium brand” …
From John Pearson … Technology and Tacos
November 29, 2013
Between now and the end of term we are pleased to welcome back former UoN Geography student John Pearson to the Geog Blog with a series of posts about what he is up to now… ‘A key priority for the British Embassy in Mexico City is encouraging inward investment to Britain. There are various large …
Summer Geoging … Jordan
November 21, 2013
This summer I spent just over 2 weeks out in the desert of eastern Jordan working with 3 different archaeological excavations. This was the first field trip as part of a new set of funding from the Council for British Research in the Levant to investigate Palaeoenvironments of the Late Glacial Transition in the Eastern …
Summer Geoging … Diggers 2012
November 15, 2013
Briony McDonagh blogs about her summer fieldwork… While other members of the School of Geography have spent the summer conducting fieldwork in places as far afield as Brazil and Siberia, my research has kept me rather closer to home. In fact, my most recent field experience took place just a couple of hours down the …
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