A week in the most liveable city in the world
September 27, 2017
A blog by Professor Paul Nathanail The biennial CleanUp conference http://www.cleanupconference.com/ found me in Melbourne for a busy week of lectures, panels and workshops. No time for jet lag! Leaving Nottingham on Thursday evening after a very successful three day writing workshop for the H2020 INSPIRATION project, I arrived early on Saturday morning – via Dubai …
Goldschmidt 2017 Conference in Paris
September 14, 2017
A blog by Virginia Panizzo Between Monday 14th August and Friday 18th August I attended the Goldschmidt 2017 conference in Paris, hosted by the European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society. It had been a few years since my last attendance (Sacramento, 2014) so I was rather excited to get together with old colleagues …
Summer working experiences in UNNC, Chinese Academy of Science and WWF
A blog by Yunke Peng in Environmental Science 2+2 University of Nottingham usually gives students nearly four months summer vacation to explore their interests and potential. In this period, I was enrolled in three programs which includes: UNNC Summer Research in Ningbo, Chinese Academy of Science in Changsha, WWF in Beijing Office. UNNC: Summer Research …
The high and low latitudes of research leave
August 23, 2017
A blog by Professor Suzanne McGowan Research leave comes to Geographers only once every six semesters, and it’s a chance to clear the backlog of half-finished papers, write grant proposals, read and think….in short do all of the things it is difficult to do whilst involved with the day-to-day tasks of teaching and administration. I …
Scoping disease records at the WHO and the ICRC
August 10, 2017
Matthew Smallman-Raynor blogs about his visit to the library and archives of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva Today, global epidemiological security is promoted by internet-based disease monitoring and surveillance systems that provide a near-constant feed of electronic information to disease surveillance centres around the world. …
Kick starting the new Red River Delta project in Vietnam
August 2, 2017
A blog by Dr Ginnie Panizzo In early July, 4 members of the Centre for Environmental Geochemistry (Suzanne McGowan, Ginnie Panizzo, Chris Vane, Melanie Leng) travelled to Hanoi, Vietnam to meet their Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) collaborators on a new 3 year project. The project entitled “Assessing human impacts on the Red …
CMS Conference 2017
A blog by Kiri Langmead On 3rd-5th July I attended and contributed to the 10th International Critical Management Studies (CMS) Conference, hosted in Liverpool by Edge Hill University. Situated in the context of the recent Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump, and the increasing support for Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the conference theme was ‘Time …
The PAGES 5th OSM Zaragoza, Spain
July 20, 2017
Dr Matt Jones and Prof Sarah Metcalfe on the School of Geography attendance at this meeting…. There was a great turn out of Nottingham Geographers at this 4 yearly meeting of the PAGES (Past Global Changes) community, this year held in Zaragoza in northern Spain. Six members of the Environmental Reconstruction research sub-theme attended the …
Natures in Between: ESEH Biennial Conference, Zagreb 28 June to 2 July 2017
A blog by Dr Pietro Piana The 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Environmental History took place at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, between 28 June – 2 July. Thanks to the financial support from the School of Geography’s Research Committee I attended the conference and contributed to a session. The title of …
Wonder 2017
July 5, 2017
A blog by the Geography Wonder team Wonder 2017 was held on 17th June, the hottest day of the year so far. The sunshine brought everyone out and University Park was filled with interested and curious minds from all ages. Sir Clive Granger hosted Zone 5 and Geography were joined by other schools displaying everything …
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