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Dr Kate Goldie
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geographer thinking mostly about animals & lecturing in cultural & historical geographies @ uni of bristol 📍
The RGS-IBG Animal Geography Working Group (AGWG) is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation - the 30th Nov deadline is looming to nominate dissertations!

www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...
Animal Geography Working Group Postgraduate Dissertation Prize — RGS Animal Geographies
The RGS-IBG Animal Geography Working Group (AGWG) is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize. The new deadlin...
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Thanks to the six amazing presenters and everyone who attended the Research Ethics for Animal Geography panel at the #RGSIBS2025 - we had a thought provoking discussion intersecting with themes of responsibility and complicity in our research 🐕 🦅 🐺 🐘
August 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Dr Kate Goldie
selling at the help desk throughout the conference! if you're not in birmingham this week and would like to order a copy, you can order one here - we'll post worldwide for free: forms.gle/dapke5HRDw1m...
August 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
In Birmingham for #RGSIBG2025 - glad to see so many animal related panels going on!
August 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In Birmingham for #RGSIBG2025 - glad to see so many animal related panels going on!
August 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Forgot to post on here about the first paper from my PhD research, ‘Love in reshaping human-pig relationships: from livestock to companion’ 🐷

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Love in reshaping human-pig relationships: from livestock to companion
In an increasingly urbanized world where pigs are predominantly never seen alive, whose dead bodies are understood as pork, the practice of pig keeping for companionship rather than food production...
www.tandfonline.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by Dr Kate Goldie
I’m not saying anything novel, but I wake up every morning, struck anew with the realization that the worst possible behaviors are incentivized, the virtues I uphold have no market value, the most tragicomically incompetent ppl are in charge, + we’re gleefully flooding ourselves with toxic sludge.
July 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Abstract submissions are still open 👇🏼 PhDs and ECRs encouraged to submit!
🐾📢 CALL FOR PAPERS📢🐾 “Research Ethics for Animal Geographies” at the RGS Annual Conference 2025. Session sponsored by the Animal Geography Working Group 🐕🐨🦋🪼

Abstract submissions to Kate.goldie@bristol.ac.uk by Feb 21st!

Details below
February 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reminder, couple of weeks to go till the deadline 👇🏼
🐾📢 CALL FOR PAPERS📢🐾 “Research Ethics for Animal Geographies” at the RGS Annual Conference 2025. Session sponsored by the Animal Geography Working Group 🐕🐨🦋🪼

Abstract submissions to Kate.goldie@bristol.ac.uk by Feb 21st!

Details below
February 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Reposted by Dr Kate Goldie
🐾📢 CALL FOR PAPERS📢🐾 “Research Ethics for Animal Geographies” at the RGS Annual Conference 2025. Session sponsored by the Animal Geography Working Group 🐕🐨🦋🪼

Abstract submissions to Kate.goldie@bristol.ac.uk by Feb 21st!

Details below
January 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
First lecture of the year 📕
January 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Writing my lectures for this term with some help 🐕
January 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Todays charity shop find has given me the motivation I need to return to writing about pigs 🐷
November 27, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Dr Kate Goldie
An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies.

Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farm
Bedfordshire farm was saved through public donations after a successful £1.5m crowdfunding campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:36 AM