A day in the life of a Geographer … John Pearson
December 21, 2012
All I Know About Mexico… I am still a relatively new blogger on this site. My first entry, a few months ago, was written while I was working at the British High Commission in Singapore, dealing with climate change and low carbon technologies in South East Asia. Since then I have experienced one of the …
Happy Christmas from the Geog Blog…
Just a quick note to wish all our readers all the best for the festive season and a happy and peaceful 2013. One of the the privileges of being a geographer is having friends all over the world and for some of them the lack of peace is a real issue at the moment, our thoughts are with them …
A day in the life of a geographer…Amber Martin
December 7, 2012
This week I’ve been working on an empirical chapter of my thesis all about the tensions between public and private space in sex shops and erotic boutiques. I’m looking at things such as how shops are legally required to have blanked out windows (see pic!) and also how the internal geographies of shops alters according …
A day in the life of a Geographer… Tim Meadows
November 30, 2012
I’ve now entered the third and (hopefully) final year of my PhD and time is flying by. I’m not sure how there are only two weeks to go until the end of the first term but one thing that is for certain is that there’s a fair bit to get done before Christmas. The majority of …
A day in the Life of a Geographer … Odette Paramor
November 23, 2012
This week we welcome Odette Paramor from our Ningbo campus to the ‘Day in the Life…’ team… ‘A UK colleague came to visit UNNC recently and remarked that he found the place ‘intriguing’. He hadn’t known quite what to expect, but it wasn’t a fully functioning UK university campus plonked in the suburbs (for the moment) of a second-tier Chinese city. …
A day in the life of a Geographer … Andy Cook
November 16, 2012
It has been a while since my last contribution and it follows one of the busiest weeks of my year in terms of teaching provision. Despite the hectic nature of this week it has been exceptionally satisfying as a lot of different subjects have been taught, a few new techniques have been used and all …
The Helm Wind of Crossfell – part 2
November 15, 2012
Yesterday I set off for Great Dun Fell with Georgina, Gary and Sam, in search of the Helm Wind I wrote about in last week’s blog… and to test out both the route and technology for the narrated walk we’ve been working on. Rolling cloud was observed above the hills on our approach but, probably …
A day in the life of a geographer – Lucy Veale
November 9, 2012
The Helm Wind of Crossfell For this week’s blog I have decided to write about some of my current research for the Weather Walks, Weather Talks project. The project is focussed on the English climatologist, geographer, and avid long-distance walker Gordon Manley, with the main output a narrated walk for the RGS-IBG initiative Discovering Britain. …
A Day in the Life of a Geographer … Suzanne McGowan (and friends)
November 2, 2012
Nottingham geographers at the British Diatom Meeting 2012 in Northumberland The British Diatom meeting has become something of a tradition among those who work on diatoms (microscopic siliceous algae). The meeting annually brings together academics, practitioners and amateur enthusiasts to discuss all aspects of diatom research ranging from ecology to evolution and taxonomy to palaeo-science. …
A Day in the Life of a Geographer … Francesca Marriott
October 26, 2012
Welcome to Second Year And so it begins, autumn is here and I am in my second year as a Geography student at the University of Nottingham… So what does second year feel like? Well I can honestly say it is nice to be back in Nottingham and in some circumstances it feels like nothing …
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