We are pleased to announce the details of this year’s Annual General Meeting, as follows:
Monday 7 September, 14:00-16:00 BST, on Zoom
The meeting will include a review of the RGRG’s activities in 2025/26, a look ahead at plans for …
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Undergraduate Dissertation Prizes – Call for nominations
The Rural Geography Research Group is pleased to invite nominations for its annual Dissertation Prizes, which recognise outstanding undergraduate research in rural geography. A first prize of £75 will be awarded. In addition, two runner-up prizes will be awarded.
Nominated …
Methods, Messiness, and Making Sense of Data: Reflections from Recent RGRG PGR Coffee Sessions
Over the past two RGRG PGR Early Morning Coffee sessions, MRes and PhD researchers came together online to talk about one of the most challenging parts of postgraduate research: methodology and analysis.
Our February session, “Methods We’re Using (and Struggling …
Reinvigorating Rural Geography: A one-day workshop of the RGRG
To be held in-person on Wednesday 6th May 2026 at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK.
Programme
- 10.30-11.00: Arrival and registration
- 11.00-13.00: Keeping ‘rural’ on the map of geography: Reflections on the The State of Geography in UK Higher Education
Finding Community in the PhD Journey: Reflections from the RGRG PGR Early Morning Online Coffee Session
In this blog post, RGRG PGR Rep Perpetua Ifiemor (Prifysgol Bangor University) reflects on a recent PGR morning coffee meeting.
The first Early Morning Online Coffee, hosted by the Rural Geography Research Group, brought together MRes students, PhD researchers at …
Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2026 – RGRG Sponsored Sessions
The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026 will be chaired by Professor Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University, UK), on the theme of Geographies of inequalities: toward just places. The conference will take place in London at the Society and Imperial College London, …
Nigel Curry: a lifetime contribution to rural geography
Convenors: Darren Smith (Loughborough University), Aimee Morse (University of Gloucestershire)
This RGRG-sponsored panel session is held in memory of Professor Nigel Curry, who passed away on 25th October 2025.
The session will honour Nigel’s contributions to the discipline and his wider work, …
The ‘rural crisis’ and social inequalities in housing and other services
Convenor: Darren Smith (Loughborough University)
The rural dimensions of the contemporary ‘housing crisis’ in the UK are arguably under-stated in national media and political discourses, despite commentators raising serious concerns of rural housing affordability and exclusion (e.g. Colomb and Gallent, …
Rural Politics of the Far Right
Convenors: Bernd Belina (Goethe-University Frankfurt, belina@em.uni-frankfurt.de) and Matthias Naumann (University of Wuerzburg, matthias.naumann@uni-wuerzburg.de)
In a multitude of regions across the globe, far-right political parties have demonstrated a notable degree of success, particularly in rural areas. This phenomenon is especially pronounced in areas …
Rural Events Between Community Cohesion and Tourism Mobilities: Rethinking Rurality Through Events
Convenors: Dr Barbara Grabher (University of Brighton), Dr Willem Coetzee (University of Western Sydney), Dr Vasiliki Georgoula, (University of the Aegean)
Events are commonly studied within urban contexts, where they are embedded in dense cultural, economic, and social infrastructures. In contrast, …