'More could be said about different ways of handing the issues that surface when we turn to some of our most popular ways of working with talk in human geography.' - Russell Hitchings & Alan Latham (UCL Geography) in recent #areajournal special section orlo.uk/jKDvx

Moral decline is an illusion – we’re no more badly behaved than our ancestors | Torsten Bell theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"No serious work ever started out with a theory" RIP Howie Becker journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

They very kindly did a review forum of my book on greenspace experience and everyday practice in Social and Cultural Geog. Thanks to Gordon Walker Jennifer Atchison David Bissell and Cecily Maller for saying nice (also v insightful) things! tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Area Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) are looking for a new editor with interest in environmental geographies rgs.org/geography/news…

'The results indicate a wide array of affective experiences related to place and suggest how enabling places for people with diverse needs and preferences may be conceptualised.' - Viveka Guzmán (RCSI) et al. in recent #areajournal special section orlo.uk/zbOok

🌆 Event Alert! Join us on 13 December, 6:15pm for "Kinaesthetic Cities: Public Spaces and Everyday Practices of Sport and Fitness" Alan Latham's #InauguralLecture. Explore the intersection of city life and physical fitness in urban spaces! #UrbanGeography

An op-ed from myself and Vincent Wijeysingha about the public funding of universities, ahead of tonight's Save Massey public meeting in Palmerston North’s city library (and online) Tertiary Education Union Leon Salter Mohan J Dutta Dr Andrew Dickson reform/ACC stuff.co.nz/manawatu-stand…

So I'm doing this inaugural lecture thing next week and you should all totally go to it.

So this is happening this evening. If you're in London come along. Should be fun and there's cake afterwards!

Pleased to see my new open access paper in Area (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)) published! Here I unpack my use of the Voice Memos app on an iPhone to voice record #fieldnotes. Thanks Russell Hitchings, Alan Latham, & Tatiana Thieme for leading this special issue! Read here: doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

📣New paper published in #AreaJournal by Tatiana Thieme (UCL Geography) as part of the upcoming Special Section 'Inside the Notebook': 'The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood'. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

🔊New paper published as part of upcoming #Areajournal Special Section 'Inside the Notebook' by Jack Layton (Institute for Community Studies): 'Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park'. doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

📢New paper published as part of upcoming #AreaJournal Special Section 'Inside the Notebook': 'Delayed notes: Responding to two unsettling street encounters in Santiago' by Soledad Martínez (Universidad de Los Lagos). #OpenAccess ✍️ doi.org/10.1111/area.1…