🌍 NEW ISSUE OF ROUTES OUT NOW! 🌍 We're delighted to announce the publication of Volume 4, Issue 1 of Routes: The Journal For Student #Geographers It features cutting edge research from young #geographers working across the breadth of the discipline 🍃 routesjournal.org/current-issue-…

🧊 Zuhri James then takes us to the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of #Cambridge 🧊 James explores how #museums continue to operate as bastions of #colonialism which consolidate celebratory narratives of #British empire routesjournal.org/2024/06/03/r21… Cambridge Geography

Beyond excited about this new (permanent, full-time) curatorial role Royal Museums Greenwich: Curator of Maps and Mobilities tinyurl.com/36k8t22e. Please share! #curator #cartography #navigation #maps #globes #global #maritime #mobility #trade #migration #museumjobs

The HGRG RGS is still accepting dissertation prize nominations! Details below 👇

A few reflections from me on the IASSA #arcticcongress 👇

📢New blog post alert! One of our final year undergraduate students, Cristian, writes about his experience of attending the 40th anniversary of the 'Iconography in Historical Geography' conference, hosted by our Cultural & Historical Research Theme: blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/2024…

🗓️Save the date! The Society's Social & Cultural Geography Research Group will be celebrating their 50th anniversary during a special event on Wednesday 6 November at Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN. Follow SCGRG for further updates and details.

📢Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2025 for essays by ECRs in humanities/social sciences on history of travel, exploration & cultural encounter or their effects, or critically engage with the work of the Society. 1st prize £1250; deadline 1/3/25 - Pls RT hakluyt.com/hakluyt-societ…

🚨#RGSIBG24 programme update: New to this year's conference, the Society's Foyle Reading Room will host a series of map conversations between scholars convened by Stephenlegg, Chair of Conference. Full details available in the online programme. 👇 rgs.org/research/annua…

Really looking forward to reading this - especially Alice Oates's chapter on Halley research station! (P.S. absolutely outstanding cover image!)

The #CFP for Part IV of the NiCHE 'Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North' series is now live! Excited to be co-editing this year's installment with Jonathan Peyton on the theme "Arctic Extractions." Deadline for abstracts: August 30th. tinyurl.com/4655y255

Got to muse about the power and possibility of map collections in this special issue of TIBG, which features me and the plenary speakers ahead of #aic2024 (August 27-30 Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) ). The conference theme is mapping and it’s full of great papers and events! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661/0…

This looks like an exciting opportunity for someone: a PhD in Tromsø (UiT Norges arktiske universitet), working on the history of Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland (pre-1800). Deadline is 15th September: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

New Special Issue in Dialogues in Human Geography: “Re-imagining the futures of geographical thought and praxis” The special issue includes an editorial and 38 commentaries that offer rich critical interventions. Read the full special issue here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/DHG/current

Nice to return from leave and see this published! A previous ERC ARCTIC CULTURES blog post discussing some elements of the article can be found here: arcticcultures.org/2021/09/07/the…

Excellent opening plenary from Nottingham Geography's own Stephenlegg at RGS-IBG Higher Ed #RGSIBG24 featuring James Cheshire & Annelys de Vet. Excited for a whole week of maps and mapping! 🗺️

Really enjoyed being part of this session this morning, and an absolute pleasure to speak alongside Dr Katherine Parker. A wonderfully engaged audience and lots of thought-provoking questions asked! 🗺️

📢 Exciting new funded PhD opportunity OU Geography in partnership with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) to think creatively with the Doreen Massey archives: oocdtp.ac.uk/making-geograp… Co-supervised by Carry van Lieshout Benjamin Newman and Colin Lorne Deadline 7th January 2025 Please circulate widely!

Last week, I traveled with Fulbright Arctic across lands the Sámi have inhabited for 7,000 years, from Alta to Kautokeino, Karasjok & Lakselv. Read my blog to learn how the reindeer-herding people are charting new paths in a fast-changing region. cryopolitics.com/2024/09/15/sam… #Arctic

📢Sign-ups are now open for the Society's Social and Cultural Geography Research Group 50th Anniversary Celebration, on Wednesday 6 November 📢 🪙A number of postgraduate travel bursaries of up to £100 are also available - apply by Friday 27 September. More details.👇