Posts by lzzeb
The Eastern Badia Archaeological Project
September 18, 2019
Matt Jones blogs from his recent fieldwork in Jordan… There’s a moment each day out here when the Eastern Badia breaks you. For some it’s the 4pm return to work and the wrestling on of rigid socks, but for me it’s somewhere between 10 and 1, when the shadows have all gone and pretty much …
A semester immersed in researching plant geography
September 17, 2019
A blog by Richard Field A semester of research leave can be used for many activities, but for family reasons I have always remained in Nottingham, trying to take maximum advantage of the time freed up by the greatly reduced teaching and administrative responsibilities. The opportunity is palpable: after a period of low ebb in …
Living Deltas Hub – Mekong Delta Fieldwork
A blog by Ginnie Panizzo Between the 1st and 9th July 2019 I joined a number of UK and Vietnamese colleagues in the Mekong Delta, for our first fieldtrip as part of our new UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund Living Deltas Hub. This project brings £1.2 million to the University of Nottingham (via Co-Is Suzanne …
Environmental Risk Research Hub Funding
September 12, 2019
A blog by Ginnie Panizzo On the 25th and 26th June 2019, the School of Geography hosted Dr. Rajiv Kangabam (Assam Agricultural University) and Prof. Gary Fones (Portsmouth University) to discuss future collaborations between the institutions. These meetings were possible thanks to funding awarded to Dr. Ginnie Panizzo from the School of Geography’s Environmental Risk …
Talking and researching European union in the USA
September 9, 2019
A blog by Benjamin Thorpe When attending large conferences, the lag times between abstract submission and the conference dates can often mean that papers morph as ideas evolve, or as the promised research takes an unexpected direction. Less commonly – at least when dealing with historical topics – it is due to the shifting political …
Facilitating fieldwork: the importance of acknowledging friends, family and technology
September 6, 2019
A blog by Sarah Hall As an economic geographer who studies the financial services sector, my field sites are financial centres within large cities. Far removed from the mountains and lakes that may seem to be quintessentially geographical field locations, my research takes place in the clusters of financial services firms found in places like …
Lung health and cookstoves in Nepal
September 5, 2019
A blog by Sarah Jewitt During the past semester, I spent time investigating connections between the use of cookstoves fuelled with biomass (wood, charcoal, agricultural residue, dung etc.) and lung health in Nepal. This work was funded by an Institutional GCRF grant entitled Improving Respiratory Health in Nepal led by Ian Hall and Charlotte Bolton …
Coal, cotton and the value of local fieldwork
September 4, 2019
In this blog David Beckingham discusses the tradition of local research and fieldwork in the School of Geography, using as his examples sites from day one of the walk from Nottingham to Malham. Fieldwork is an essential part of any geography degree, often valued because it helps us see the world we want to understand …
Island Biology 2019
September 3, 2019
A blog by Michela Mariani and Richard Field Only few months after moving to Nottingham from Australia, Michela was heading back to the Southern Hemisphere on a memorable conference trip. For Richard, who long ago lived on the equator, it has been much longer since he last crossed that important geographic line. We both attended …
To achieve ‘safely managed water’ for all by 2030, the Joint Monitoring Programme must monitor seasonality in faecal contamination of drinking water sources
August 28, 2019
A blog by Alfred Dongzagla, Third Year Ph.D. Student Target 6.1 of the Sustainable Development Goal seeks to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 20301, with the indicator being access to ‘safely managed water’.2 The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme defines ‘safely managed water’ as a drinking water …
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