Globall 2013
May 3, 2013
“Welcome to the mystery of the masquerade ball – a night full of secrets and desire.” GeogSoc hosted their annual ‘Globall’ on Tuesday 30th April at the stunningly beautiful Albert Hall, Nottingham. The masquerade theme went down a treat, with a fabulous selection of Venetian masks to be spotted across the room. The 186 guests …
Careers “Speed Dating” with the School of Geography
April 30, 2013
Simon Gosling, Lecturer in Climate Change and the School of Geography Careers Rep, talks about a unique careers networking event he organised with students last week. Last Friday evening saw the first School of Geography Careers Networking Event. It was jointly organised between the School of Geography and GeogSoc, the student Geography society. Over 100 …
Geog On to Easter
March 22, 2013
Geog On has been continuing with it’s engaging and entertaining short interviews over the past couple of weeks. Recentaly Matt has been discussing global scale biodiversity with Adam Algar and this week he has been chatting with Isla Forsyth about critical military geography. To catch up with our latest offerings either listen via iTunes U or the links below; …
And we think the weather is cold in Nottingham…
March 7, 2013
We have had an update from our staff currently working on research in Siberia. A new NERC funded project is investigating recent environmental change in the World’s deepest lake, using silicon isotopes. Lake Baikal, which formed over 20 million years ago, is the world’s most voluminous lake, containing c. 20% of its freshwater. This “most …
Views of the World: Geog On… Retail Geography
March 4, 2013
The Geog On… podcasts are back for their 2013 season, focussing on the different ways Geographers view the world. The first podcast features Amber Martin talking about her work on the the feminisation of the sex shop industry and can be found here. Please note this podcast contains adult themes and may not be suitable for …
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. …
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