Geography at Durham
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Delighted that our paper led by Deborah Priß "The social behind the physical" on connectivity of Bronze and Iron Age societies is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science. It's available Open Access at authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Delighted that our paper led by Deborah Priß "The social behind the physical" on connectivity of Bronze and Iron Age societies is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science. It's available Open Access at authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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@carolineclason.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamglaciology.bsky.social has co-authored a major new report from the UK National Commission for UNESCO looking at the consequences of melting ice on people and planet. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
@carolineclason.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamglaciology.bsky.social has co-authored a major new report from the UK National Commission for UNESCO looking at the consequences of melting ice on people and planet. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
@cop30brazil.bsky.social
@cop30brazil.bsky.social
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Sally Rangecroft and I discuss the rapid decline of Tropical Andean glaciers and the challenges of changing freshwater contribution and water quality in the region. Find out more and download the report here 👇 ❄️ unesco.org.uk/news/british... @geogdurham.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @exeter.ac.uk (2/2)
British Scientists Join UNESCO in Global Push to Protect the World’s Glaciers | UNESCO in the UK
The UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) has launched a landmark scientific report, Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World:
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November 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Sally Rangecroft and I discuss the rapid decline of Tropical Andean glaciers and the challenges of changing freshwater contribution and water quality in the region. Find out more and download the report here 👇 ❄️ unesco.org.uk/news/british... @geogdurham.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @exeter.ac.uk (2/2)
Could seabirds hold clues to our changing climate? 🐦
Solidified snow petrel stomach oil, preserved in Antarctic nests for thousands of years, is helping our colleague Erin McClymont trace how life adapted to past climate shifts & what it may mean for our planet’s future erc.europa.eu/projects-sta...
Solidified snow petrel stomach oil, preserved in Antarctic nests for thousands of years, is helping our colleague Erin McClymont trace how life adapted to past climate shifts & what it may mean for our planet’s future erc.europa.eu/projects-sta...
Climate stories from frozen archives
Layers of regurgitated stomach oil preserved by snow petrels are helping ERC grantee Erin McClymont trace how Antarctic ecosystems have responded to past climate shifts. Her research offers a rare gli...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Could seabirds hold clues to our changing climate? 🐦
Solidified snow petrel stomach oil, preserved in Antarctic nests for thousands of years, is helping our colleague Erin McClymont trace how life adapted to past climate shifts & what it may mean for our planet’s future erc.europa.eu/projects-sta...
Solidified snow petrel stomach oil, preserved in Antarctic nests for thousands of years, is helping our colleague Erin McClymont trace how life adapted to past climate shifts & what it may mean for our planet’s future erc.europa.eu/projects-sta...
Our colleague @jeffwarburton.bsky.social has, together with Jamie Woodward and Stephen Tooth, co-authored a piece just published in The Conversation entitled 'Dam disasters of the 1920s made reservoirs safer – now the climate crisis is increasing risk again' theconversation.com/dam-disaster...
Dam disasters of the 1920s made reservoirs safer – now the climate crisis is increasing risk again
Since Dolgarrog, the UK has had an excellent reservoir safety record but disasters do still occur.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Our colleague @jeffwarburton.bsky.social has, together with Jamie Woodward and Stephen Tooth, co-authored a piece just published in The Conversation entitled 'Dam disasters of the 1920s made reservoirs safer – now the climate crisis is increasing risk again' theconversation.com/dam-disaster...
We have alumni careers talks for students coming up on November 20th. The event begins at 5pm with a drinks & cake reception & poster display from placement year students in the Manley Room (IHRR, W311). The careers talks take place in room W309 from 5.30pm. Book here forms.office.com/e/8K2qQdqpqD
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We have alumni careers talks for students coming up on November 20th. The event begins at 5pm with a drinks & cake reception & poster display from placement year students in the Manley Room (IHRR, W311). The careers talks take place in room W309 from 5.30pm. Book here forms.office.com/e/8K2qQdqpqD
A great few days of outreach activity at the Celebrate Science event at Locomotion in Shildon, County Durham. Pictured here are Lauren Pretorius and @sealevelchange.bsky.social who kindly staffed our augmented reality sand box.
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
A great few days of outreach activity at the Celebrate Science event at Locomotion in Shildon, County Durham. Pictured here are Lauren Pretorius and @sealevelchange.bsky.social who kindly staffed our augmented reality sand box.
Congratulations to our colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis on the publication of his co-authored article with @mikkojorge.bsky.social in @natureandspace.bsky.social entitled “Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions” which is now available at: doi.org/10.1177/2514...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Congratulations to our colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis on the publication of his co-authored article with @mikkojorge.bsky.social in @natureandspace.bsky.social entitled “Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions” which is now available at: doi.org/10.1177/2514...
Are you thinking of enrolling on a Masters programme? Look no further! We have two suites (with a choice of three programmes in each) - one on Risk and (all new for 2026) one on Sustainable Futures. For more information please visit our website: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
October 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Are you thinking of enrolling on a Masters programme? Look no further! We have two suites (with a choice of three programmes in each) - one on Risk and (all new for 2026) one on Sustainable Futures. For more information please visit our website: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
📣 We are advertising a range of glaciology/polar PhD projects @geogdurham.bsky.social that are funded by @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. ❄️ For more information on eligibility, support for under-represented groups, and how to apply, visit durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/opportunities/
Opportunities
PhD scholarships We are currently advertising a range of glaciology/polar-related projects (listed below) funded by the 2026/27 IAPETUS DTP studentship competition. The deadline to submit applicati…
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October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
📣 We are advertising a range of glaciology/polar PhD projects @geogdurham.bsky.social that are funded by @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. ❄️ For more information on eligibility, support for under-represented groups, and how to apply, visit durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/opportunities/
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Today I co-hosted @geogdurham.bsky.social’s first event for the newly founded Queer and Trans Thematic Group. We shared questions, insights and potential opportunities for using queer and trans theorising within our own research and produced some wonderful collaborative mind maps (as shown below)!
October 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Today I co-hosted @geogdurham.bsky.social’s first event for the newly founded Queer and Trans Thematic Group. We shared questions, insights and potential opportunities for using queer and trans theorising within our own research and produced some wonderful collaborative mind maps (as shown below)!
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Durham Geography @geogdurham.bsky.social first year BSc field trip (Trip One) to Upper Teesdale complete. Great students and staff in an amazing landscape 🙂 Thanks to the local landowners and Weardale Adventure Centre for a wonderful place to stay 😊
October 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Durham Geography @geogdurham.bsky.social first year BSc field trip (Trip One) to Upper Teesdale complete. Great students and staff in an amazing landscape 🙂 Thanks to the local landowners and Weardale Adventure Centre for a wonderful place to stay 😊
Our colleague @penelopeanthias.bsky.social will be speaking next month @camunigeography.bsky.social on the topic of 'Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bolivia':
October 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Our colleague @penelopeanthias.bsky.social will be speaking next month @camunigeography.bsky.social on the topic of 'Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bolivia':
Congratulations Levina! 🎉
The DGRG Dissertation Prize 2025 Winner is Levina Purewal for “‘I can’t think without ChatGPT’: A Cognitive Sociotechnical Assemblage Analysis of Student-AI Entanglement at Durham University”. Reviewers praised the contribution, multi-method approach, analysis & ambition 1/2
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October 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Congratulations Levina! 🎉
Interested in sustainability or risk? Join our Insights session with Prof. Sarah Woodroffe on Tuesday Oct 14th @ 11am to discover
✅ Our dynamic academic environment
✅ Career paths that make a global impact
✅ Postgraduate programmes designed for change-makers
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✅ Our dynamic academic environment
✅ Career paths that make a global impact
✅ Postgraduate programmes designed for change-makers
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October 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Interested in sustainability or risk? Join our Insights session with Prof. Sarah Woodroffe on Tuesday Oct 14th @ 11am to discover
✅ Our dynamic academic environment
✅ Career paths that make a global impact
✅ Postgraduate programmes designed for change-makers
durhamuni.eventsair.com/postgraduate...
✅ Our dynamic academic environment
✅ Career paths that make a global impact
✅ Postgraduate programmes designed for change-makers
durhamuni.eventsair.com/postgraduate...
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Just out paper which might be of interest to those who work on Urban Geograpy, Geographies of Home, and affective thinking (especially ambivalence).
It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography.
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It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography.
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“Giving up the Idea of Home”: Ambivalent Geographies, Geopoetics, and Resisting Capture in the Cities of the Middle East
Abstract. This paper sits with the geopoetics of the Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal to grapple with affective ambivalence towards common objects of d
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October 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Just out paper which might be of interest to those who work on Urban Geograpy, Geographies of Home, and affective thinking (especially ambivalence).
It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography.
academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography.
academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
Congratulations to Olivia Griffin Roach who has been announced as the joint winner of the 2025 Social & Cultural Geography Research Group dissertation prize for her project 'Beyond the Bump: Understanding How Women Experience and Navigate Pregnancy & Early Motherhood in the Financial Service Sector'
October 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Congratulations to Olivia Griffin Roach who has been announced as the joint winner of the 2025 Social & Cultural Geography Research Group dissertation prize for her project 'Beyond the Bump: Understanding How Women Experience and Navigate Pregnancy & Early Motherhood in the Financial Service Sector'
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...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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...
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.
October 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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.
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...
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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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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!
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!
October 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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!
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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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
October 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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 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.
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.
October 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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.
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.
Fantastic news, congratulations Colin from all @geogdurham.bsky.social
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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September 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Fantastic news, congratulations Colin from all @geogdurham.bsky.social
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.
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September 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
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