Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London

Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, by Joseph Karl Stieler (1828). © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen – Neue Pinakothek, WAF 1048.

New blog post: "Macintosh, Washington, and Goethe's birthday present" inneskeighren.com/williammacin...

Historical Geographers!! Do you have any news, cfps, conference sessions, papers, books or events you would like to alert others to in our next #HGRG spring newsletter?
Get in touch with @hcraddock.bsky.social by 13 February and spread the word!
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Join us for our EDI event to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month 'Queer Geographies' on Thursday 26th February 2026 with Professor Katie Willis. 1-2pm.

All welcome from within geography and beyond!

Beyond the missile and military: towards colourful Cold War histories Emerging from an AHRC funded project on Materialising the Cold War, Cold War Museology (Douthwaite, J., Nehring, H., & Alberti, S. J. (Eds.) (2025). Cold War museology. Taylor & Francis) and Cold W...

'Cold War Museology' and 'Cold War Scotland' are wonderful and important books. A pleasure to review them here:

Beyond the missile and military: towards colourful Cold War histories

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CfP @ RGS-IBG 2026: Unconventional Geographies of Solidarity 01-04 September 2026, London Session Organizers: Oli Mould (Royal Holloway, University of London), Hanxi Wang (University College London) In Multitude (2004), political philosophers Michael Hardt a…

I’m co-curating a session at the @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in September on “Unconventional Geographies of Solidarity” - here is the CfP. Please consider submitting or sharing if this is in your wheelhouse

A sketch portrait of Luise von Göchhausen (c. 1780) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

New blog post: "Where were the women?" inneskeighren.com/williammacin...

Screen shot of The Conversation web page in the article link.

Humans returned to British Isles earlier than previously thought at the end of the last ice age. Research by Dr Adrian Palmer and colleagues @royalholloway.bsky.social in The Conversation.

theconversation.com/humans-retur...

#RHULGeogResearch #RHULResearch #RoyalHolloway #Climate #Environment

States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.

Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography.

Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.

Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.

Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Read report:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...

Manchester University Press - Postcapitalist cities Postcapitalist cities - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Postcapitalist cities by Oli Mould

I’m sure you’re all *thrilled* to hear what you can preorder my new book - Postcapitalist Cities - from the MUP website with a whopping 40% off till the end January. So yours for only £12.

States of precarity in UK geography report launch We're invitomh all geographers to the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.

TOMORROW:
Report Launch and Discussion
1:00-2:30PM GMT

Guest Speakers:
Matilda Fitzmaurice (@matildaf.bsky.social)
Jay Todd (@jaytoddgla.bsky.social)
Lekan Adekola
Gillian Rose (@profgillian.bsky.social)

Register:
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Check out our @planthums-uk.bsky.social web pages at kew.org/science/inte...
Learn who we are, what we do, and how you can work with us on #PlantHumanities #research @rbgkew.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social

Register:
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And now to Diss Mere and Holocene records with Ian Candy from @rhulgeography.bsky.social #QRA2026ADM

His supervisors were Simon Blockley, Adrian Palmer, Bethan Davies (Newcastle) and Sam Roberson (BGS). His examiners were Chris Darvill (external, Manchester) and Anna Bourne (Internal, QMUL). Thanks also to Simon Armitage as independent chair.

Photo of Chris Darvill, Alex Clark and Anna Bourne by the maps in the foyer of the Queens Building at Royal Holloway, University of London

Huge congratulations to Dr Alex Clark who has successfully defended his thesis with minor corrections.

Alex's thesis is entitled 'A multi-proxy investigation of northeast Irish Ice Sheet dynamics during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition'

#RHULGeogResearch #RoyalHolloway #PhD #Glaciation

🎓 Winter Graduation 2025 - Huge congratulations to our @royalholloway.bsky.social Masters graduates and to Harri for completing his PhD. It was a pleasure celebrating with you today. Wishing you all the best for your next endeavours. Keep in touch!

Part of this group show in Stroud, themed around Earth mysteries, on for a few more weeks & closing with a winter solstice ritual by #GeraldineHudson

We'll be joined by amazing respondents from different career stages who'll be offering critical reflections on the report its findings. Fruther details soon but please do save the date and register if you can.

A sign in an aquarium with an arrow point right and the words 'swim this way'.

A tunnel in an aquarium surrounded by water with people looking out into the water

A new paper in Mobilities by Kim Peters and I - Routes to blue stewardship? Mobilising aquarium a/effects towards ocean citizenship and planetary change

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Centre for the GeoHumanities

Issue 16 of the Newsletter of the Centre for the GeoHumanities is out: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

#RHULGeogResearch #RoyalHolloway #GeoHumanities

Original wheel here and new 'spoke' below. We argue that contract status needs to be included.

Montage of workers from different areas

Uncovering the hidden cost of climate change 🌎

Researcher Dr Laurie Parsons (@laurieparsons.bsky.social) from @rhulgeography.bsky.social investigates how extreme heat caused by climate change is impacting workers in the global supply-chain in Cambodia.

Read more: ow.ly/X5CG50XyBn8

RGS-IBG Publications Hub - Wiley Online Library Check out the Geography Directions blog here:

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PhD researcher, Beth Williamson and Dr Philip Jagessar have a new article out in ‘Area’: ‘Mapping language: Names, Speakers and Voices’, exploring mapmaking, linguistic conventions and their 2024 RGS-IBG conference conversation. Article link below ⬇️

📸: @rgsibg.bsky.social

Consistent response of European summers to the latitudinal temperature gradient over the Holocene - Nature Communications 10,000 years of summer length changes are reconstructed. Longer summers occurred when the equator-to-pole temperature gradient weakened. A 1 °C drop added ~6 days; under high emissions, European summe...

Our new research exploring the role of the latitudinal temperature gradient on European seasonality is now published in Nature Communications. We combine Holocene palaeoclimate proxies with transient simulations to predict changing seasonality to the end of the century www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us for the first Geography Southeast teacher conference on 29th June 2026 @royalholloway.bsky.social with Geography Southwest. Free entry to teachers.
www.geographysouthwest.co.uk/conference/g...

#geographyteacher #choosegeography #geography #royalholloway #Teachinggeography #teacherconference

States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures.

www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social

Dry ground with bare tree on left with lush ground and flowers on the right

New scientific research points to longer summers 🌞

A study, led by @rhulgeography.bsky.social, reveals for the first time why Europe could gain more than an extra month of summer days by 2100 using climate data from the last millennia.

Read more: ow.ly/2BHM50XtWUw

Europe could see up to 8 months of summer by 2100. A new study led by @celiavarves.bsky.social provides important insights for future climate projections. Read more at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#COP30 #ClimateChange #RHULGeogResearch #Palaeoclimate #ClimatePolicy

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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Laboratory Technician (Palaeoecology) Full-Time, PermanentApplications are invited for the post of Laboratory Technician (Palaeoecology) in the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London.The successful applicant will joi...

Interested in a lab tech career with a particular focus on palaeoecology? Come work with us at @royalholloway.bsky.social !!!

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