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15 Apr 2025
The Department of Geography at Durham University is leaving Twitter/X and moving our social media presence to BlueSky. You can find us there on the BlueSky handle @geogdurham.bsky.social or by following this link: tinyurl.com/pafzybnc.
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15 Apr 2025
The Department of Geography at Durham University is leaving Twitter/X and moving our social media presence to BlueSky. You can find us there on the BlueSky handle @geogdurham.bsky.social or by following this link: tinyurl.com/pafzybnc.
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15 Apr 2025
We’re excited to join a platform that fosters open, thoughtful engagement, and we look forward to continuing to share our research, events, and news with you there. Thank you for your continued support — see you on BlueSky!
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Congrats to George Buckland @GeogDurham @SirBucko_ who won our 2023-24 UG dissertation prize! Praise also goes to Clara Hinde (U Bristol) and Eleanor Albin-Clark (U Manchester) as close runners-up. Read their dissertations: ugrg.co.uk/2025-ugrg-dissert…
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Geography at Durham retweeted
9 Apr 2025
@AmooreLouise will lead the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @GeogDurham @ImeisD @durham_uni, which aims to change the way we understand and study the interaction between people, machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.
ALT White writing against a black background with gold swirls: ‘Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life’. Circle cropped headshot of Professor Louise Amoore, Leverhulme Trust logo and URL leverhulme.ac.uk/news
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4 Apr 2025
We are currently offering offer up to five Student Support Scholarships of £1,000 each for applicants beginning a Masters (MA or MSc) by Research ('MRes') degree in the Department in 2025/26. For more details👉 tinyurl.com/yf5k7d47
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4 Apr 2025
Further details on all the Research Masters (MA/MSc) scholarships that we have on offer can be found here: tinyurl.com/559z45h6
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3 Apr 2025
Geography staff at the Durham University Schools’ Science Festival 2025 using a 3d Augmented Reality Sandbox to explore themes around topography, landscape change and catchment management.
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Geography at Durham retweeted
30 Mar 2025
Post doc position in the “Digging into sand: new territories in the making” with Dr Laura Schoenberger.
28 Mar 2025
Job opportunity @GeogDurham - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human Geography (Job Number: 25000340) closing date for applications 11.59pm on 23rd April 2025 tinyurl.com/656may4z
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2 Apr 2025
The spring 2025 edition of the geography department alumni newsletter is now available to view and download on the geography alumni website. You can also find interviews with alumni and a history of the geography department on the website. dur.ac.uk/departments/academ…
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28 Mar 2025
Job opportunity @GeogDurham - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human Geography (Job Number: 25000340) closing date for applications 11.59pm on 23rd April 2025 tinyurl.com/656may4z
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28 Mar 2025
Job opportunity @GeogDurham - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Physical Geography (Job Number: 25000341) closing date for applications 11.59pm on 23rd April 2025 - tinyurl.com/zhp8fa25
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21 Mar 2025
Congratulations to our recent graduate George Buckland whose dissertation was awarded first place by the @UGRGRGS. George's dissertation was entitled 'The gaybourhood never sleeps: Mapping the intergenerational (re)configurations of queer urban space (Manchester’s Gay Village).
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Geography at Durham retweeted
21 Mar 2025
Be inspired with our NEW Inspiring Excellence Scholarships for international students.
For eligible PG programmes, we’re offering £5,000 or £10,000 to support PG study in a world top 100 university, ranked in the top 10 in the UK for Employer Reputation: brnw.ch/21wRu1q
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Geography at Durham retweeted
19 Mar 2025
The 2025 IBRU professional workshop programme is now available to book, with GIS, maritime and border management themed workshops available. See our website for the full programme #bordertraining #ibrutraining
dur.ac.uk/research/institute…
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20 Mar 2025
Check out this new book by our very own Ivan Markovic @hazyhistories. You can also listen to Ivan speaking about the topic and his book on BBC 4's Thinking Allowed programme: tinyurl.com/3fhxsuv9
6 Feb 2025
An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain by Ivan Markovic focuses on the social, cultural and emotional aspects of smoking in modern Britain, covering 150 years of British history.
Out now! bit.ly/40qP8j5
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Geography at Durham retweeted
20 Mar 2025
Important analysis from @jonny_darling of @geogdurham of how the current model of asylum accommodation is failing on multiple levels.
19 Mar 2025
During our evidence session investigating asylum accommodation, Prof. Jonathan Darling of @durham_uni discusses how he feels the Government's focus needs shifting in order to affect change in the current system 👇
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Geography at Durham retweeted
17 Mar 2025
New OA paper with Andrew Burridge on the role of hotels as adaptive spaces of asylum, thinking through the cultural politics of the hotel as a specific site of 'carceral hospitality' in the UK and Australia @GeogDurham @RGS_IBGhe rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
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Geography at Durham retweeted
17 Mar 2025
A video developed in collaboration with @GeogDurham @durham_uni to help students understand 🧐 The challenge of decarbonising residential housing | @thecuriousgeog @SarahEKnuth timeforgeography.co.uk/video…
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Geography at Durham retweeted
17 Mar 2025
A reminder that abstract submission for the @igsoc Symposium on Ice Streams & Outlet glaciers @GeogDurham closes on 24th March. We're looking forward to presentations from both contemporary & palaeo perspectives to encourage cross-pollination of ideas and research approaches! ❄️
13 Feb 2025
Registration & abstract submission for the @igsoc Symposium on Ice Streams & Outlet Glaciers, hosted at @GeogDurham from 21st-25th July 2025, is now open! ❄️ Abstracts can be submitted until 24th March & registration is open until 5th May. More info here: pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durha…
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13 Mar 2025
Our Department has been ranked 11th in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2025 (up five places from 2024): tinyurl.com/m36dxdzf
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