INQUA Roma 2023
August 2, 2023
Michela Mariani and Matthew Jones In July 2023, we attended the 21st INQUA Conference in beautiful Rome, Italy. For Michela, it felt a bit like going home, as she is originally from Italy (though she’s from Milan!). It goes without saying, Rome is a truly stunning setting for a conference. The INQUA Conference is held …
‘Core Blimey!’– A PhD fieldwork trip to India
July 27, 2023
Hamish Duncalf-Youngson, PhD student Arriving in Manipur jolts your senses to life, from the heat and dust to the chaotic driving practices (which heavily require dodging cows in the middle of four-lane roads). None of this should have surprised me, perhaps, given I’d just arrived in India for the first time. Yet, I soon learnt …
Crayfish in the Time of COVID: When a pandemic interrupts your fieldwork-based PhD
July 26, 2023
César Rodríguez Valido, PhD student Now that I’m nearing the final months of my PhD experience, I wanted to reflect on what has been, to put it lightly, an eventful experience. Whilst I was still an undergraduate (in this very department), I caught the ‘crayfish bug’ – a keen interest in invasive signal crayfish (Pascifastacus …
Counter-histories of urban renewal from Tunis
July 24, 2023
Participation in a BRISMES panel on ‘Cities: Materiality, Temporality, and Affect’ Katharina Grüneisl is a Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham and currently conducts research on the used clothing economy in Tunisia and on garment manufacturing in industrial zones in Jordan. The Annual BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern …
PhD Blog: Oral Interviews About Life Experience in Changchun
June 26, 2023
By Yiming Xu, Geography PhD Student My PhD project considers the colonial and postcolonial urbanism of Changchun, known previously as Hsinking when the city was the capital of the the Japanese colonial empire in Manchuria from 1932. . The project is focusing on how material geography and social experience intersected as the Japanese enacted their …
What are the risks to the UK’s essential buildings during the heatwave?
June 16, 2023
Simon Gosling, Professor of Climate Risks, School of Geography, University of Nottingham With some parts of the UK currently experiencing a heatwave, there have been large increases in water use in some areas, and some schools have shut this week due to water shortages. Is this a sign of what we can expect to become …
Geography Alumni Post – John Pearson, Class of 1990
June 6, 2023
John Pearson, June 2023 I studied Geography at Nottingham from 1987 to 1990, and after graduating I went straight to work at the Foreign Office. Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, which gives you an idea of how long ago that was! At the moment I am the British Ambassador to Laos, and overall I have …
Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site – Milling Power
May 24, 2023
To mark its 50th anniversary on the 16th November 2022 UNESCO is looking forward to the Next 50! Imagining a report from the DVMWHS team written in 2072 to celebrate UNESCO 100. A blog by Ian Jackson Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site – Milling Power November 2072 (UNESCO 100 and COP 77) In hindsight, …
Africa adventure: fieldwork for the impacts of aquaculture on Lake Victoria sustainability
May 22, 2023
Mingjie Sun, PhD Student It has been over two years since I started my PhD in January 2021, when the world was still under the shadow of Covid 19. When my supervisor, Ginnie, told me that I had a chance to go to Africa with Dr Andy Marriot from the British Geological Survey (BGS), who …
Public Geographies of Brexit
May 16, 2023
Professor Sarah Hall Since 2019, I’ve been supported by the ESRC through a Senior Fellowship with UK in a Changing Europe to research the economic geographies of Brexit. This work intensified in Autumn 2022 with the further support of a period of research leave from the School of Geography. The main focus of my …
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