Dates: 28–31 August 2018.

Location: Cardiff University.

Theme: Geographical landscapes / changing landscapes of geography.

The RGRG sponsored the following sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2018:

Food & drink heritage, rural tradition or novelty? Challenges for responsible development (1): Provisioning and Sourcing (2): Food and Drink Collectives

Eifiona Thomas Lane (Prifysgol Bangor University, UK)
Rebecca Jones (Prifysgol Bangor University, UK)

Beyond mere signifiers: centring animals in the (re)production of rural landscapes (1): Within the farming environment (2): Beyond the farming environment

Keith Halfacree (Swansea University, UK)
Fiona Williams (University of Chester, UK)

Rural Energy Transitions: Ruralising Low-Carbon Energy and Energising Rural Geographies (1) and (2)

Joint Session with: Energy Geographies Research Group

Matthias Naumann (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
David Rudolph (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

New and Emerging Rural Researchers: Practices and Perceptions

Fidel Budy (Aberystwyth University, UK)
Andrew Maclaren (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Landscapes of Gentrification (1) and (2)

Joint session with: Population Geography Research Group

Martin Phillips (University of Leicester, UK)
Darren Smith (Loughborough University, UK)

Landscape Becoming and Time. Past, present and future: dwelling in Human Geography and beyond (1) and (2)

Joint session with: History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group

Owain Jones (Bath Spa University, UK)
Daniel Keech (University of Gloucestershire, UK)