October 2024 New Article: "The UK: international child poverty outlier" Free copies of eprint here (50 apparently): tandfonline.com/eprint/276GDNR… Or online here tandfonline.com/eprint/276GDNR…

On Friday, our new Nature Geoscience paper, ‘Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites’, was published. We show, for the first time, that the ‘greening’ trend seen in the cold-climate ecosystems of the Arctic is mirrored on the Antarctic continent,🧵1/

🚨New publication! The Greta Effect: Is there more public support for climate protesters who are young and female? With Yu Shuang Gan & Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE University of Bath We manipulated images of protesters to alter gender/age to see changes in audience response sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

IMPORTANT PLS SHARE. It's rumoured the English £9,250 tuition fee cap may be raised this pm for the 1st time in 8yrs, as University's finances are strained. As student finance misunderstandings abound, I've bashed out a few notes to help... 1. Higher tuition fees WON'T change

🌍 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌍 'Children’s geographies II: Adults' by Matej Blazek journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03… Newcastle University Geography

Excited to share our latest paper, "The Future of Geography Field Course Pedagogy in UK Higher Education". If you are passionate about experiential learning, field course design, and advancing geographical education, I invite you to explore our research. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ge…

New Open Access Paper Children and young people's access to food, education, play and leisure in times of crisis: An international, integrative review of policy responses, impacts and adaptations during the COVID-19 pandemic College of Life and Environmental Sciences GCYFRG (RGS-IBG) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ch…

The 'proposed' plans include roughly 20% Geography & Planning academic staff (10-15 FTE) losing their jobs

More Cardiff UCU✊🌱 on the @CardiffUni cuts. “The University has access to hundreds of millions of reserves, of which a really big chunk is accessible. “We are bemused why they’re pushing ahead with brutal and callous cuts when other options are on the table.” 30th January 2025.

Great to see this paper out from Meg Haslam in the journal of undergraduate ethnography based on her dissertation research: Food allergies and Living with Risk: Navigating everyday life at university when at risk of anaphylaxis ojs.library.dal.ca/JUE/article/vi…

Today Geographical Association publishes an important new report I've co-authored with others: 'Geography for everyone? Diversity, inclusion and the Geographical Association'. Please read and share widely, with geographical community, and beyond; feedback welcomed. geography.org.uk/geography-for-…

Explore The rise of global education in this Time for Geography video developed in collaboration with ExeterGeography UoExeterCGES | The Curious Geographer @mattmattfinn timeforgeography.co.uk/videos-contain…

The forthcoming DWP benefit cuts to push an extra 50,000 kids into poverty. People hear that & often think about it in abstract terms. I hear it & can imagine what that means for each of those children because I grew-up in poverty. I also know the life-long damage that will do.

The Geographical Association is concerned about the funding position of many UK universities. Many Higher Education #geography colleagues are facing the risk of redundancy & there are proposals to merge or close a number of geography departments. Read more ⤵️ geography.org.uk/ga-higher-educ…

Winners announced! Congratulations to the 2025 GEReCo Masters Dissertation Award winner & highly commended 🥳🙌 gereco.org/2025/06/09/win…

Our co-edited "Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development", 2025, is out now! routledge.com/Routledge-Hand… Got the hard copy some time ago, but delayed in posting about it! PS: we have a dedication to Ragini, who was born around the same time we completed this!

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My op-ed “Should India lower its voting age?” indianexpress.com/article/opinio… My thoughts on lowering of voting age published in the The Indian Express

We're delighted to interview our member, Salvador Santino Regilme, about his edited collection, Children's Rights in Crisis: Multidisciplinary, Transnational, and Comparative Perspectives: qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-view…