Pigeon chat

January 30, 2015

I’m beginning to get a reputation. “I’ve seen something about pigeons recently” is how most people greet me these days, and I can barely come across anyone anymore without them talking to me about my feathered research subject. Who’d have thought pigeons would provide such a talking point?   But, then again, it has long …

A Geographer, pretending to be an Engineer, in Zambia…

December 5, 2014

…actually, as a human geographer based in the Faculty of Engineering, I pretend to be an engineer most days. There is however, logic to this madness. I am a research fellow on the ‘Barriers’ project which is a School of Geography (Co-Investigator Dr Sarah Jewitt) and Faculty of Engineering (Co-Investigator Dr Mike Clifford) EPSRC funded …

Environment Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (and a bit about the West African Monsoon!)

November 28, 2014

Former Nottingham Geography student Rachael Lem has just started the second year of her NERC funded PhD within the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool. There’s more about Rachael’s PhD at the foot of this post, where Rachael tells us what she’s been up to in Liverpool alongside her PhD work… ‘We are …

Music – bringing people together

Geography alumnus John Pearson, now of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, returns to the Geog Blog with a final report from his posting to Mexico. John will return to the Geog Blog in the new year and let us know how he’s settling back into life in the UK and his new role at the …

GeogSoc on Geog Blog…

November 21, 2014

Thanks to Kieran Phelan and his GeogSoc committee for their post below… It’s an extremely busy time of year for all at University! Whilst it’s wonderful to see the vacation period, with all its very exciting festivities, appearing on the horizon, it’s still a very stressful period, filled with coursework, internship and graduate scheme deadlines! …

Fieldwork Week!

November 14, 2014

Week seven of semester one is Fieldwork Week… Lectures are put on hold to allow students and staff to get out and undertake fieldwork without interrupting their lecture and practical classes. Last week our students were in Berlin, at the British Geological Survey, and out and about on various reaches and hillsides across the UK; …

From Windermere to Malaysia…

November 7, 2014

PhD student Heather Moorhouse blogs from Malaysia… Now in my fourth and final year, I have begun the most feared period of the PhD process, the big Thesis write-up (or the big T for short). I recently returned home from three years in Nottingham to write-up my findings on my PhD project which looks at …

New research facility the “Centre for Environmental Geochemistry”…

November 4, 2014

Our new Professor of Isotope Geoscience Prof. Melanie Leng introduces the new centre… This year saw the opening of a new research facility in Nottingham, the Centre for Environmental Geochemistry. The Centre brings together existing geochemical facilities and groups within the University of Nottingham and the British Geological Survey (out at Keyworth). The CEG aims …

The 2014 Annual School of Geography Careers Networking Event

October 24, 2014

  Simon Gosling, Associate Professor in Climate Risk and the School of Geography Careers Officer, talks about yesterday’s annual careers networking event. The School of Geography’s third annual careers networking event was held at the Ropewalk yesterday evening (23rd October 2014). Geography students from all three undergraduate years came to chat with eight alumni guests …

From John Pearson … The Transport of the Future: selling UK vehicle expertise to Mexico

December 20, 2013

Mexico is now the eighth largest vehicle producer in the world. It is getting a lot of attention as more companies set up production facilities here. Just last month, the Mexican media was full of plans for Audi to build its first production plant in Mexico, in Puebla.  This will be the first “premium brand” …