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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Aug 22

‼️ Final show today‼️

Urban camping: convenient adventure or local nuisance?

@Stand 4, 17:30, Edinburgh Fringe

Campers, critics, and the camping-curious all welcome!

🎟 Tickets www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2570/...

Double bill with Maria Gardani on sleep myths and how to get a good nights sleep!

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · Aug 21

Check out this super cool learning toolkit out in October. www.nai010.com/en/product/c.... It's been put together by the leaders of the Dutch 'Senses-Based-Learning' network (sensesbasedlearning.org) to try and get more sensory learning into education inside and outside academia #sensorystudies

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Aug 21

Tickets still available for my 2nd (and final) Edinburgh Fringe show on ⛺️ urban camping 🚐 tomorrow (22 Aug), 17:40!!

I’ll be discussing who’s doing it, why they do it, and asking how city councils should responding to this increasingly popular activity.

Tickets: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2570/...

Fringe

The Provocateurs: Urban camping, and Sleep myths Hosted by comedian Susan Morrison. Dr Nina Morris (The University of Edinburgh) pitches up for some urban ca...

www.thestand.co.uk

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Jun 9

Survey link: eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Urban camping survey

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Jun 9

Spent last week in Edinburgh flyering campervans and connecting with people in Facebook groups as part of my project on urban camping as outdoor recreation.

Survey takes 10–15 mins and open to anyone who’s camped in a city in the UK. (NB: Not unhoused/involuntary camping)

Link in comments!

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thanks @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social!

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · May 23

I’ve been collecting them and breaking them down as best I can.

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · May 23

Sad to see that (school) Geography students think that leaving litter on the beach is okay 😢. Also, bagging your rubbish does not make it vanish. Also, when are these going to be called ‘recyclable’ and not disposable. Take your litter home or put it in the nearest bin people. Some of today’s finds.

Geography (meteorology) school work left crumpled on the beach.

Rubbish left of the beach (some of it in bags.

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · May 21

Call for participants!

Have you camped in an urban area in the UK for leisure, fun, wellbeing, or adventure? In a bivvy, tent, van, car…? In your garden, a park, side street…?

Please complete my survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... (anon., 10-15 mins).

Please share.

Thank you!

Urban camping survey

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · May 20

Just published - our new open access paper on home camping during lockdown. From garden tents to driveway adventures, we show how people created micro-geographies of calm and connection.

Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#PandemicGeographies #HomeCamping #UrbanNature #Wellbeing

The natural benefits of camping outdoors at home during the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper investigates the role of home camping as a coping mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period marked by heightened stress and restricted mobility. Drawing on existing literature reg...

www.tandfonline.com

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David Bissell @davidjbissell.bsky.social · May 19

Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏

⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025

📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected]

📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · May 15

14 August www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2553/...

22 August www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2570/...

Fringe

The Provocateurs: Urban camping, and Brain health roulette Hosted by comedian Jay Lafferty. Dr Nina Morris (The University of Edinburgh) pitches up for some ...

www.thestand.co.uk

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · May 15

Exciting!! I’ll be sharing my RSE research on urban camping in two shows this August as part of The Provocateurs programme at the Edinburgh Fringe. Come along to the shows or drop me a message if you’re interested in participating in the research.

#urbancamping #stealthcamping #microadventure

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · May 12

What does morning smell like?

This was the question Kate McLean-MacKenzie and I asked at the #UncommonSensesV conference in Montreal. Beginning with a 6am smellwalk followed by a plenary we drew on literature, language, and crowd-sourced insight.

A smell map and co-authored paper to follow!

Smell walkers receiving instructions on how to ‘smell hunt’.

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Apr 4

This we I seem to have swapped spotting curves in trees (#BackBone) for curves in rock

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Mar 22

We are delighted to announce the appointment of 4 new members to the Transactions Editorial Board:

Joe Gerlach, University of Bristol
@jessaloomis.bsky.social, Newcastle University
@ninajm.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh
Junxi Qian, University of Hong Kong

Welcome to the #TIBG team! #geosky

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Mar 10

Early Mother’s Day walk just me n’ the dog while a football match was won and a sleepover lie-in was snoozed. Love watching the seasons change on regular routes. Happy to have a dog that, finally, after three years of seemingly relentless training, we can now let off in the woods.

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Mar 1

Always looking out for #Sensory interpretation in the search for teaching ideas and examples. This time at the Pitt Rivers Museum.

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Feb 15

A busy fortnight for my sensory geography students here in Edinburgh. Sound walking with Jonathan Prior last week, all things taste and flavour at Johnnie Walker Edinburgh this week. A week off and then smell mapping with Kate McLean the week after 😍

Flavour wheel inside Johnnie Walker Edinburgh

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Feb 6

Excellent, thanks. Would be great if you could shout out when it’s up 🙂

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Feb 6

Tried to register. Missed the deadline 😔

Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Feb 6

Read all about our recent research 'Helping adolescents cope with the burden of scoliosis' in @TheLancet Child & Adolescent Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #geography

Helping adolescents cope with the burden of scoliosis

“It happened so quickly that it was hard to compute”, explained 23-year-old Holly Smith. At age 15 years, Smith was diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Within just 8 months, she went f...

www.thelancet.com

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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · Jan 30

Please share / Repost:
Call for Papers for Historical Geographies of the Caribbean session at the Royal Geographical Society conference in August 2024. deadline for abstract submissions Feb 19th 2024. Please read post for further details (sorry text so small, please click images to enlarge)

small text so please click to enlarge Call for Papers for Historical Geographies of the Caribbean session at 2024 Royal Geographical Society annual conference

small text so please click image to enlarge this Call for Papers for Historical Geographies of the Caribbean session at 2024 Royal Geographical Society annual conference in August.

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Jan 14

Couch to 5K training with the boy going well (if slowly, trying to fit it round all the football training). Nothing like running with a pre-teen to make you feel old and unfit 😂

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Nina Morris @ninajm.bsky.social · Jan 8

Our paper on adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is out now! #YoungPeople #Nature #Trees #Art #MixedMethods Open access link: mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

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