A day in the life of a Geographer … Matt Jones
October 20, 2012
The beginning of a new academic year is always a busy time, compounded by students and staff in the School of Geography (re)finding their structured academic feet again after summers away recovering from A-Levels, travelling the world seeing “Geography”, or should that be ‘Geographies’ (see below), or working on research projects for dissertations or the …
Malham Mayhem!
September 12, 2012
80 members of the School of Geography have been at the Field Studies Council field center at Malham Tarn since Friday of last week immersed in all weathers and multiple strands of physical geography. This 8 day trip is the key part of the second year Techniques in Physical Geography module – training students in …
A day in the life of a geographer – Lucy Veale
September 3, 2012
Since my last entry I have started work on a new project with Georgina Endfield called ‘Weather Walks, Weather Talks’. The project has actually been underway since March but I’m just involved with the second part, the outcome of which will be a guided walk and mobile phone application around Great Dun Fell in the …
Day in the life of a Geographer … John Pearson
August 24, 2012
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Nottingham Geography alumni John Pearson to the Geog Blog, with his first contribution found below… “As this is my first blog entry, I should start with a bit of an introduction. I am a former Geography student from Nottingham, although my studies seem a long time ago …
A day in the life of a geographer … Francesca Marriott
August 20, 2012
“Geography is all around us” I was a little unsure what to write for this blog as lectures and ‘uni-life’ cannot make up the contents of this blog because of course it is Summer! Well it seems an age since my last blog and a long time since summer began. So what does a 1st …
A day in the life of a geographer…Amber Martin
July 23, 2012
Since my last post I’ve been pretty busy with ‘conference season’. A couple of weeks ago I attended the RGS-IBG annual conference in the beautiful city of Edinburgh where it rained a lot and I forgot to pack a water proof coat and ‘sensible’ footwear. Fashion dilemmas aside the conference was brilliant. I co-organised and …
A day in the life of a Geographer … Andy Cook
July 3, 2012
Well, since my last set of reflections things seem to have become even busier! Despite teaching having finished in May (generally speaking) staff have been busier than ever with marking, exam and coursework moderation, exam boards, curriculum reviews and generally reflecting on what has been a successful academic year. On a personal note I have …
A day in the life of a geographer… Lucy Veale
June 22, 2012
My main event this week was a trip to Norwich for the workshop ‘Bringing Landscape to Life: Humphry Repton and Environmental Change’ at UEA. This was one of the main outputs of the project I am currently working on. The event began on Monday afternoon with a visit to Catton Park which is located just …
A day in the life of a Geographer…
June 14, 2012
As we reach the end of the academic year, students are busy enjoying a well earned post exam break and staff are busy finalising marks ahead of exam boards, including Andrew Leyshon who is away form the School this week acting as an external examiner at another institution. External examining is an important part of our quality control procedures and we …
A day in the life of a Geographer … Suzanne McGowan
June 5, 2012
This time of year is a transition for academic staff, where we wrap up the final parts of the teaching year and can start to think about research. So, the main tasks that I had this week were marking exams and coursework and completing some research contracts in the lab that had stared to pile …
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