Social & Cultural Geography

Exciting research from our out-going conference officer, Rishika 👏

FYI: the roles of conference officer, treasurer, and social media officer have each had one nomination

📣Our AGM is happening soon!

📆Wednesday Sep 3rd at 9am, online

We've got exciting plans for the next year. If you'd like to join the committee or just come along to see what RGs do, drop us a line for a Teams link

Expressions of interest for roles here: forms.office.com/e/w8Ex1jWXzQ

My RGS highlight was the Stich Assembly workshop. This was my attempt to kick off the Watershed Moments project with @riverdonproject.bsky.social. Can you tell what it is?
#StitchAssemblyRGS25

A drawing of two gender-expansive individuals drawing in a living room. There is laundry in one corner and a potted plant. The line drawing is shaded in colours of the trans flag.

Looking forward to co-hosting a double session on Geographies of Trans Creativity this afternoon with Ed Kiely and Ezgi Yilmaz. RGS-IBG 2025 Birmingham, 14:40-18:30, Muirhead Building, Room 122

Very excited for the @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference kicking off in earnest today ✨ check out our sponsored sessions

Today, we are thrilled to kick off our Annual International Conference, held in-person at @unibirmingham.bsky.social and online! 🌍

Watch the Conference’s Chair, Professor Patricia Noxolo, share what shaped this year’s theme, Creative geographies. #RGSIBG25

Are you a geographer researching issues of public relevance?

Join us for The GJ's 'Meet the Editors' event at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference!

13:10, Wednesday 27 August, Muirhead Room 113

Ft.: @beckcollins.bsky.social
@peterhopkins.bsky.social
@trivikrama.bsky.social
Paul Milbourne

We're looking forward to lots of excellent talks at the #RGSAC2025 next week. See details for the sessions sponsored by Social & Cultural Geography

🎈Don't forget, our social event takes place on Aug 28th from 6.45 in Kolkata Lounge, Stirchley - all welcome!

📣 Committee Vacancies – get involved
We've got upcoming opportunities to welcome new committee members:

- Social media & website officer
- Treasurer
- Dissertation Prize officer
- Conference officer

🗓️ Applications due by Sept 2nd 2025
📍 More info: tinyurl.com/52va646c
📝 EOIs: tinyurl.com/24vj3pwj

Don't miss our TIBG keynote: 'Geography and the New' at RGS-IBG AC2025!

📆Thursday 28th August, 11:10
📍Teaching & Learning Building: Lecture Theatre 1 - LG18
📣Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell & Beth Greenhough with Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, David Bissell, Tatiana Thieme & Nathaniel Télémaque

📣 Committee Vacancies – get involved
We've got upcoming opportunities to welcome new committee members:

- Social media & website officer
- Treasurer
- Dissertation Prize officer
- Conference officer

🗓️ Applications due by Sept 2nd 2025
📍 More info: tinyurl.com/52va646c
📝 EOIs: tinyurl.com/24vj3pwj

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

~ Committee Vacancy: Social Media & Website Officer ~

This is a 3 year post, see our website for further details: tinyurl.com/52va646c

If you're interested, you can fill in this form: forms.office.com/e/w8Ex1jWXzQ

Elections will take place at our AGM:
🎯Wed, Sep 3rd, 9AM via MS Teams

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...

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!

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 scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au

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

✨ Committee Vacancy: Postgraduate Representative ✨

We are seeking a postgraduate student to represent the needs and interests of PGRs, and provide a PGR perspective in SCGRG activities.

The role is for one year and you'll be working with our other rep. Further info: scgrg.co.uk/committee-va...

The ordinary affects of ‘Alpha Male Island™’: a survivor’s journal Published in Critical Studies on Security (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Had a bit of fun with this short-fiction piece in an upcoming issue of Critical Studies on Security. In this, a character finds himself trapped on 'Alpha Male Island', a site of 'Manospheric' fantasy. He then manages to escape, and reconsider his subjectivity. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YKBVN...

Why join an RGS-IBG research group - RGS This webinar will delve into why you should join one of our many research groups today.

Thinking about joining an RGS Research Group? There are over 30 research groups bringing geographers together.

If you'd like to know more about joining a group, @rgsibg.bsky.social is hosting an webinar open to all

📆 March 12th 2025, 1pm - 2pm

Book your spot here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Publishing your first journal article - RGS Aimed at both human and physical geographers, this webinar offers a comprehensive exploration of the key stages involved in publishing scholarly articles.

~ Upcoming event for Postgraduates ~

PUBLISHING YOUR FIRST JOURNAL ARTICLE, open to all postgraduates, online, with @rgsibg.bsky.social

📆 March 26th 2025, 1pm - 2pm

Book your place here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Sharing this brilliant podcast again, now I can tag @mishgreen.bsky.social who made it based on workshops with participants with energy limiting conditions. If you have time and spoons to listen, I highly recommend it #Crip #DisabilityJustice #NEISVoid

Black communities using mapping to document & restore a sense of place | Analysis: Black History Month Black people have historically used mapping to document their stories. Today, communities are using “restorative mapping” as a way to tell stories of Black Americans.

Check out this for #BlackHistoryMonth! Especially relevant for @geographers.bsky.social & @americangeo.bsky.social How Black communities use mapping to document & reclaim a sense of place. Thanks @tucsonsentinel.com for re-publishing piece @theconversation.com www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...

YouTube video by Peter Hopkins What is Anti-Racism?

NEW ANIMATION addressing the question - what is anti-racism?

youtu.be/cXfTTr9WCSQ?...

Mud, dancing, and resistance: the joy and mess of radical environmentalism and non-violent direct action in 1990s Britain

Needing inspiration from past activisms? Come hear me talk about the mud, dancing, and resistance of radical environmentalism + non-violent direct action in 1990s Britain, as part of the Historical Geographers Seminar Series (online), 18th Feb, 17.30 (London time). Book for a link

Geography for everyone? - Geographical Association The GA has published the Geography for everyone? research report, which explores diversity and inclusion from a range of perspectives...

geography.org.uk/geography-fo...

We found in a three-country study that couch-surfing with friends and family (low/no rent) is one of the critical factors determining whether or not those who drop out of owner- occupation ever get back in journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

✨Celebrating our 50th Anniversary in 2024, we awarded two undergraduate dissertation prizes✨

Congratulations to Alex de Silva (Manchester University) and Inigo Homan (University of Cambridge) for their excellent dissertations 👏

Winning dissertations are available here: scgrg.co.uk/dissertation...

We'd like to wish everyone a happy new year 🎇

The @rgsibg.bsky.social is now accepting calls for sessions for AC2025

📆 If you would like to apply for sponsorship by Social & Cultural Geography, the application deadline is January 31st

ℹ️ You can submit your application here: tinyurl.com/3nnwxnhv

If you are in London, this event tonight honours Professor Russell Hitchings’ intellectual legacy at UCL and his lasting impact on the field of geography.
Russell was a former secretary of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group and is dearly missed.

Hello to the many people who joined this week! 👋 Here’s two starter packs of geographers 👇 & check out #geosky too

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