We would like to congratulate our undergraduate dissertation prize winners for 2019/20. We had some high standards this year so these prizes are well earned. Many thanks to Dr Fiona Williams and RGRG committee members …
PhD Candidate: Faye Shortland (University of Birmingham)
I am now in the final year of my PhD, supervised by Dr Steven Emery (University of Birmingham) and Dr Katy Bennett (University of Leicester). It began in September …
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Unfortunately due to Covid 19 the RGS with IBG International Conference 2020 has been postponed until 2021. We will have additional news on how this will be taken forward in due course.
We hope the great sessions proposed for RGRG …
Dr Pratyusha Basu (UTEP) calls for articles, special issue of Sustainability, ‘Gender and Rural Devt: Sustainable Livelihoods in a Neoliberal Context.’ (via RGRG News editor BA Scholten): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/gender_rural …
Rowan Jaines (University of Sheffield, UK)
Natasha
Coleman (Swansea University, UK)
This session will focus on elements of the rural that have been disavowed, denied and dispossessed by contemporary human geography. We are particularly interested by the manner in which …
Session Sponsored by the Rural Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG
Session organisers: Felipe Dr Felipe da Silva Machado, University of Plymouth and Martin Phillips, University of Leicester
Borders, and associated notions such as of boundaries and borderlands, have long …
Exiting the EU will initiate processes of bordering, re-bordering and de-bordering across a range of policy areas (Cassidy et al., 2018; McCall, 2018). Bordering will have a fundamental impact on the political possibilities of those working in rural areas across …
* Rural Populism: New Emerging Political Geographies of the Rural https://rgrg.co.uk/rural-populism-new-emerging-political-geographies-of-the-rural
* Tracing, Traversing and Transgressing Borders in Rural Geography CfPs to follow https://rgrg.co.uk/tracing-traversing-and-transgressing-borders-in-rural-geography
* Digitisation, Rurality and Changing Spaces – Panel session details to follow
* Beyond the Borderlands …