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 …

Beauty and the bog

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …