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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 23h

Climate Ecologies, a collaboration involving our colleague Professor Andrew Baldwin, responds to the critical questions raised by the concept of the Panicocene, as an era where climate change & migration are framed in narratives of anxiety & emergency: research.hud.ac.uk/art-design/t...

Cultures of Climate - University of Huddersfield

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 1d

Professor Hannah Cloke OBE is an internationally recognised hydrologist specialising in floods, climate extremes, and disaster risk reduction. She works with news media and the entertainment industry on climate, water and environmental issues.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 1d

On October 20th & 21st @durham.ac.uk will host a series of webinars aimed at prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students. This includes sessions on funding, careers, the Colleges and on applying to Durham. For further information and to book a place: durhamuni.eventsair.com/discover-dur...

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Holly Wytiahlowsky @hollywytia.bsky.social · 6d

Wonderful week spent with @geogdurham.bsky.social
students on the Arctic fieldtrip learning about Arctic environments, governance, and politics. Great enthusiasm all around! Students even led some roadside yoga and rounders when the bus broke down. Some pretty good northern lights too!

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Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social · 7d

Welcome to the first day of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life. We look forward to working with you and hope that you will watch this space for recruitment, events, & more @leverhulme.ac.uk #AI #MachineLearning #SocialSciences #Humanities

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RiscBal @riscbal.bsky.social · 7d

RiscBal welcomed @geogdurham.bsky.social students last week with two field trips:

1. Exploring the Flash-Flood Early Warning System in the Balearic Islands at Ca n’Amer River catchment.

2. Learning about ecogeomorphic modelling in Mediterranean catchments at Sa Font de la Vila River catchment.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 7d

Fantastic news, congratulations Colin from all @geogdurham.bsky.social

Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 7d

A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis for this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @versobooks.bsky.social for nominating the book, & to Pattis.

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A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize. I am huge...

A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize. I am hugely grate...

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 12d

Book launch workshop event with our colleagues @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @ajsecor.bsky.social entitled 'The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis'. The event in London, also involving Will Davies & Jeremy Gilbert, is on Tuesday November 25th:
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The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis

A workshop on the politics of feeling in this conjunctural crisis, with Anna Secor, Ben Anderson, Will Davies, Jeremy Gilbert.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 12d

International students can apply for a UK Chevening Fellowship to study on one of our 1-year Taught Postgraduate courses:

MA Climate, Risk and Society

MSc Climate, Risk and Society

MSc Environmental Hazards and Risk

MA Risk, Security and Politics

Deadline for applications to Chevening is Oct 7.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 14d

The Geographical Magazine of the RGS-IBG has just published a supplement on choosing University Geography courses. Two of the five 'case study' students are from Durham - Mia Yearwood and Cameron Powell. They provide some valuable insights on what its like to study on our BA and BSc programmes.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 15d

The assessing committee made the following comment about Emily's work "By embedding endometriosis within feminist geographies, this work makes a vital contribution to geographies of health and wellbeing, advocating for a more compassionate and inclusive approach to chronic illness".

Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 15d

Warm congratulations to Emily Williams who has won the 2025 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize awarded by the RGS-IBG Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group. Emily's dissertation was entitled 'A Feminist Geographical Exploration of the Everyday Lives of People with Endometriosis'.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 15d

In addition to the four existing programmes we already offer on Risk we are launching three new programmes on the theme of Sustainable Futures:

MSc Cities and Sustainable Futures
MSc Climate Change, Society and Sustainable Futures
MSc Climate Change, Environmental Processes and Sustainable Futures

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 18d

Our Department has been ranked #1 for Geography and Environmental Science in the Times Higher and Sunday Times rankings for 2026. This includes the highest scores for research and teaching quality (68.8 and 90.9 respectively) and a score of 94.4 for graduate prospects.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 20d

2) 'Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations'

In her contribution, @ayanassar.bsky.social considers how different worlds and regions are imagined in the non-west from the vantage point of Egypt.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Aya Nassar (2025) entitled: 'Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations' with a red banner at the top.

The aim of this intervention is to respond to the provocation of how different worlds and regions are imagined from the non-west. This ‘non-west’ is often regarded as the object of area studies, rather than an author of geographical knowledge and cannons. Egypt represents a classic example of this. The concomitant aim of this task is not to package these ‘other’ traditions as useful additions that diversify the histories of geography (as this reinforces the centrality of Anglocentric questions through an add-and-stir approach), but to acknowledge these traditions as evolving, and possibly problematic but always already in conversation with worldly intellectual and geopolitical traditions. To do this from the vantage point of Egypt, I start with the specific moment of post-independence to show how it was complex and imbricated in intellectual inheritances, shifting geopolitical orders, national revisions of worldly orientations and geopolitical ambitions. For many, an Egyptian regional geographic imagination finds its bedrock in the post-independence moment. It was at this time that Egypt, as an anticolonial world actor, sought to redefine its geopolitical global and regional commitments. Indeed, the post-independence moment saw a strong and forceful regional geographical imagination and praxis, in politics as well as in intellectual geography.

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History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group @hpgrg.bsky.social · 20d

We are delighted to announce the 2025 History and Philosophy of Geography undergraduate dissertation prize winner: Henry Blake, @geogdurham.bsky.social, for his dissertation Foreclosed Futures: Hope, Precarity, and Ambivalence in Contemporary Cornwall. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4jjc4dp6

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News & Events – History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG)

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 21d

Dylan’s dissertation 'Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Nitrogen Dynamics and Eutrophication Risk in the Upper Eden: A Comparative Evaluation of Process-Based, Empirical and Deep Learning Modelling Architectures', explored the integration of deep learning tools in future water quality projection.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 21d

Warm congratulations to Dylan Tweats, who has been awarded First Prize in the @britishhydrosoc.bsky.social Undergraduate Dissertation Award 2025.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 22d

Rachel's dissertation was entitled “Frontlines and Solidarity: A Decolonial Approach to Climate Activism Against the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) in Uganda and the UK, and its Implications for the Global Climate Justice Movement”.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 22d

Congratulations to our recent graduate Rachel Garlake-Louw who has received an Honourable Mention from the @energygeography.bsky.social in their 2025 undergraduate dissertation competition.

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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 25d

Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...

After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works

Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.

theconversation.com

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 26d

Images from field teaching at Skaftafellsjökull in Iceland. With our students are @mikebentley.bsky.social, Dave Roberts & @hollyjenk.bsky.social. The group were followed by farm dog Millie, who couldn't get enough of moraine limits, kame terraces, subglacial deformation & crevasse-squeeze.

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 27d

Tomorrow is shaping up to be a fantastic day. I'll be contributing a short talk on BigTech FinTech and the New Monopolies of Everyday Money and Finance

Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · Aug 22

Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us!
@finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 28d

Job opportunity - Postdoctoral Research Associate working alongside @crangma.bsky.social - durham.taleo.net/careersectio... closing date 11.59pm, 7th October 2025

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human Geography

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 28d

Geoengineering ideas to tackle #climate breakdown at the poles will not help and could harm, according to new research involving Professor Mike Bentley @mikebentley.bsky.social and Professor Chris Stokes of @geogdurham.bsky.social. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

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