Our Department has been ranked 11th in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2025 (up five places from 2024): tinyurl.com/m36dxdzf

A reminder that abstract submission for the Int. Glaciol. Soc. Symposium on Ice Streams & Outlet glaciers Geography at Durham closes on 24th March. We're looking forward to presentations from both contemporary & palaeo perspectives to encourage cross-pollination of ideas and research approaches! ❄️

New OA paper with Andrew Burridge on the role of hotels as adaptive spaces of asylum, thinking through the cultural politics of the hotel as a specific site of 'carceral hospitality' in the UK and Australia Geography at Durham RGS-IBG Higher Ed rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

A video developed in collaboration with Geography at Durham Durham University to help students understand 🧐 The challenge of decarbonising residential housing | The Curious Geographer @SarahEKnuth timeforgeography.co.uk/videos-contain…

The 2025 IBRU professional workshop programme is now available to book, with GIS, maritime and border management themed workshops available. See our website for the full programme #bordertraining #ibrutraining dur.ac.uk/research/insti…

Important analysis from @jonny_darling of @geogdurham of how the current model of asylum accommodation is failing on multiple levels.

Check out this new book by our very own Ivan Markovic Ivan Marković. You can also listen to Ivan speaking about the topic and his book on BBC 4's Thinking Allowed programme: tinyurl.com/3fhxsuv9

Be inspired with our NEW Inspiring Excellence Scholarships for international students. For eligible PG programmes, we’re offering £5,000 or £10,000 to support PG study in a world top 100 university, ranked in the top 10 in the UK for Employer Reputation: brnw.ch/21wRu1q

Congratulations to our recent graduate George Buckland whose dissertation was awarded first place by the UGRG. George's dissertation was entitled 'The gaybourhood never sleeps: Mapping the intergenerational (re)configurations of queer urban space (Manchester’s Gay Village).

Job opportunity Geography at Durham - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Physical Geography (Job Number: 25000341) closing date for applications 11.59pm on 23rd April 2025 - tinyurl.com/zhp8fa25

Job opportunity Geography at Durham - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human Geography (Job Number: 25000340) closing date for applications 11.59pm on 23rd April 2025 tinyurl.com/656may4z

Post doc position in the “Digging into sand: new territories in the making” with Dr Laura Schoenberger.

The spring 2025 edition of the geography department alumni newsletter is now available to view and download on the geography alumni website. You can also find interviews with alumni and a history of the geography department on the website. dur.ac.uk/departments/ac…

Geography staff at the Durham University Schools’ Science Festival 2025 using a 3d Augmented Reality Sandbox to explore themes around topography, landscape change and catchment management.

Louise Amoore will lead the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Geography at Durham IMEIS-DU Durham University, which aims to change the way we understand and study the interaction between people, machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.

Congrats to George Buckland Geography at Durham George Buckland who won our 2023-24 UG dissertation prize! Praise also goes to Clara Hinde (U Bristol) and Eleanor Albin-Clark (U Manchester) as close runners-up. Read their dissertations: ugrg.co.uk/2025-ugrg-diss…