Newcastle University: PhD Candidate: Hannah Budge
I am currently in the first year of my PhD at Newcastle University in the Centre for Rural Economy. My project is funded by the ESRC through the Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral …
Dissertation awards: Conditions for submissions
Undergraduate
The prize is open to any currently registered undergraduate student at a UK university and will be awarded to the dissertations that exhibit the best overall contributions to the wide range of issues relating to rural geography. Three prizes …
Covid 19 Crisis Short part 3 – Short of Milk, Short of Cash
PhD Candidate: Théo Lenormand (Countryside and Community Research Institute)
This analysis is based on my master’s degree thesis from 2019 which was funded by the Carasso Foundation as part of a project aimed at understanding the impact of the Common …
2019/20 Dissertation Prize Winners announced
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 …
Living cultural heritage within the Lake District National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site
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 …
A message for our Postgraduate Researchers from Aimee, your Postgraduate Representative.
We recognise that many of you will have been preparing for conferences that may have been postponed or cancelled. If this is the case, but you have work you’d like to share with the wider geography community, please get in …
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Postponed until 2021 RGS with IBG International Conference 2020
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 …
Special issue of Sustainability
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 …
Ways of speaking as if through soil: The strange material of rural forgettings
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 …