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Lecturer in Physical Geography at The University of Manchester, UK | Interest in Quaternary glaciation | Tweets my own | He / Him ❄️❄️❄️
Job Alert! Permanent Lecturer in Physical Geography (Teaching & Research), specialising in peatland science. Come join our Department of Geography at The University of Manchester! Deadline 27 March 2025 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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very short deadline (21 Feb) - but if you got your PhD within 4 years and are looking for your next research opportunity - then check out the UoM bi-centenary fellowship scheme www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job...
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Climate change in the polar regions of our warming world is threatening to transform many of its features, such as this icy tableau in the Fish Islands off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. There is still much to learn about these places before we know better what those changes may be.
A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID
Postdoc available: 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁. Work on an NSF-NERC-funded project with brilliant UK, USA and Canada team. A great opportunity to combine modelling and field-based ice sheet reconstructions! Deadline: 𝟮𝟯 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Screenshot of a commentary abstract in Geo by Ewan Woodley, Stewart Barr, Lesley Batty, Karen Bickerstaff, Christopher Darvill, Raihana Ferdous, Naomi Holmes, Ihnji Jon, Kenny Lynch, Julian Martin, Alan Marvell, Derek McDougall, Hannah Pitt, Aled Singleton, Catherine Souch & Lynda Yorke (2024) entitled 'The future of geography field course pedagogy in UK higher education' with an orange banner at the top.
✈️New #OpenAccess commentary in Geo📋
'The future of geography field course pedagogy in UK higher education' by Ewan Woodley et al.
This piece reports on a workshop addressing the urgent need to transform field courses in the context of environmental sustainability.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky
Screenshot from the webpage description of 'The Future of Fieldwork in a Changing World' theme - text copied here: The Future of Fieldwork in a Changing World Led by Ewan Woodley, Naomi Holmes, Stewart Barr, and Lynda Yorke This theme examines the changing face of geographic fieldwork around the world. Pressures arising from the climate crisis and environmental change require geographers to think about the carbon cost and sustainability of their fieldwork, and technological innovations present geographers with opportunities to consider new and improved ways of doing fieldwork, remotely or in the field. Moves to improve social equity and accessibility within geographic teaching and research at all levels require critical reflections on best practice, and discussions around decolonising geography need to consider ways to avoid "knowledge hierarchies" or "parachute science" in which local expertise is ignored. This theme will consider how fieldwork has been conducted in the past and how it might be made more sustainable in the future. This is an international call for submissions examining the future of fieldwork, both in teaching (including school and higher education) and research. We particularly encourage engagement with the following: Knowledge, practice and policy associated with decarbonising geographic fieldwork and creating sustainable initiatives that seek to address the environmental and climate costs. Developments in creating and implementing virtual fieldtrips or field-based tools to enhance geographic fieldwork, widen participation in or out of the field and/or create novel, accessible fieldwork resources. Efforts to make geographic fieldwork more accessible, equitable, inclusive and cognisant of local expertise. Reflections on field teaching practice from the perspectives of staff, students and educational systems.
Here at Geo, we are launching a new Theme:
'The Future of Fieldwork in a Changing World'
This is an open call for papers & commentaries examining the future of fieldwork in teaching & research. If you have ideas, opinions, or best practices you'd like to share, get in touch!
tinyurl.com/bd3dxnpb
