We had a guest at the Loughborough IAS today 🤖🤖🤖

Join us this Thursday Loughborough University London for a workshop and discussion with artists Harun Morrison, Sonia Levy and Gabriella Hirst. This event is co-curated by Radar and Curating the Sea Sign up here: radar.lboro.ac.uk/events/connect…

Are you an overseas researcher in the humanities and social sciences interested in collaborating with UK partners? Apply for the Visiting Fellowships to work with a UK-based higher education or other research institution for up to six months. Apply now: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/visiti…

We are building up a new Centre for AI & Digital Loughborough University and are looking for research leaders. We are keen to recruit individuals, or those who may wish to either bring their groups or build them here. lboro.ac.uk/join-us/comput…

In case you missed us, we’ve got Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast livestream this week 🤓🤓🤓

Why so many British people are so bad with using punctuation marks?!

I am so looking forward for this Special Issue to be out👏

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Happening soon 👇👇👇

Very excited to share the first issue of JDS with the world -- any day now! Please feel free to get in touch if you have ideas for an article. In addition to research articles, also also seek innovative forms of scholarship (research notes, dialogues, visualizations, etc.).

Can’t wait for our first issue to be out! 🤩

The latest Disaster Prevention and Management issue is out, with some great publications: emerald.com/insight/public…

Deadline Extended - With our Research Summit deadline passing in the summer break, we have pushed this back to allow more time for interested Loughborough academics to submit an application, it will now be 5pm on Friday 11th October 2024. More details - bit.ly/ResSum

Want to know more about the Journal of Disaster Studies, our Editorial Collective, and our intellectual mission? We cover all of this (and much more!) in our inaugural discussion, available at this link: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

The third research article in our first issue is "Lifting the Spatial Veil: Using Soja’s Postmodern Geographies to Theorize Disasters," written by Wesley Cheek and Prof Ksenia Chmutina. Abstract in the thread below -- and read it here in open-access! muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

In addition to traditional research articles, Journal of Disaster Studies publishes various other forms of scholarly writing, including essays, research notes, dialogues, profiles of key individuals, and data visualizations.

Our first issue includes two research notes. The first, by A. J. Fass, is called "On (Not) Seeing Like a State: Ethnography and Intertextuality on the Way to Practice." You can read it here in open-access (abstract is in the thread below): muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

Check out Prof Ksenia Chmutina, Sulfikar Amir, PhD., Kim Fortun, Jennifer Henderson, Rodolfo Hernandez, Julia Irwin, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Jacob Remes, and Monica Sanders's "Journal of Disaster Studies: An Inaugural Discussion" at muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article… Penn Press Journal of Disaster Studies