Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) RGS-IBG
@ruralgrg.bsky.social
The Royal Geographical Society Rural Geography Research Group exists to encourage and promote theoretical and policy-related research in rural studies.
https://rgrg.co.uk/
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Great PhD Human Geography *fully funded* opportunity here in Swansea!
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Human Geography: Fully funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Human Geography pathway (RS891) - Swansea University
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
www.swansea.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Great PhD Human Geography *fully funded* opportunity here in Swansea!
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Join our team: We're recruiting 2 x 3-year post doc researchers for the Rural-Spatial-Justice project at Aberystwyth, to undertake fieldwork on rural discontent & support for disruptive politics in the UK, Europe & USA. Closing date: 19 Oct. Details: jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/p...
Aberystwyth University - : Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Rural-Spatial-Justice) (5874)
jobs.aber.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Join our team: We're recruiting 2 x 3-year post doc researchers for the Rural-Spatial-Justice project at Aberystwyth, to undertake fieldwork on rural discontent & support for disruptive politics in the UK, Europe & USA. Closing date: 19 Oct. Details: jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/p...
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After four days, 400+ sessions, discussions, receptions and Chair’s events, with over 2,000 geographers in attendance both online and remotely, our Annual Conference has come to a close. #rgsibg25
📷: Neill Bell-Shaw
📷: Neill Bell-Shaw
August 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
After four days, 400+ sessions, discussions, receptions and Chair’s events, with over 2,000 geographers in attendance both online and remotely, our Annual Conference has come to a close. #rgsibg25
📷: Neill Bell-Shaw
📷: Neill Bell-Shaw
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Our Annual International Conference is coming up! 🌍
On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk
📷: University of Birmingham
On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk
📷: University of Birmingham
August 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Our Annual International Conference is coming up! 🌍
On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk
📷: University of Birmingham
On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk
📷: University of Birmingham
The RGRG AGM will be held from 15:00-17:00 BST on Monday 1st September. The meeting will include a review of the RGRG’s activities in 2024/25, a look ahead at plans for 2025/26, and elections for vacant committee roles. More details on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/rural-geogra...
Rural Geography Research Group Annual General Meeting 2025 – Rural Geography Research Group
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August 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The RGRG AGM will be held from 15:00-17:00 BST on Monday 1st September. The meeting will include a review of the RGRG’s activities in 2024/25, a look ahead at plans for 2025/26, and elections for vacant committee roles. More details on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/rural-geogra...
News, articles and reviews are welcome for the Summer 2025 edition of the RGRG newsletter. Overviews of events are welcome. Book reviews and contributions by PGRs and ECRs are most welcome and encouraged.
Completed contributions should be emailed to Aimee (amorse1@glos.ac.uk) by Friday 18th July.
Completed contributions should be emailed to Aimee (amorse1@glos.ac.uk) by Friday 18th July.
July 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
News, articles and reviews are welcome for the Summer 2025 edition of the RGRG newsletter. Overviews of events are welcome. Book reviews and contributions by PGRs and ECRs are most welcome and encouraged.
Completed contributions should be emailed to Aimee (amorse1@glos.ac.uk) by Friday 18th July.
Completed contributions should be emailed to Aimee (amorse1@glos.ac.uk) by Friday 18th July.
RGRG undergraduate dissertation prizes - Nominations are now open for this year’s prizes - the deadline is Tuesday 15th July. For more information see: www.rgs.org/research/res...
Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) - RGS
Learn about the Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) undergraduate dissertation prize and how to apply.
www.rgs.org
July 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
RGRG undergraduate dissertation prizes - Nominations are now open for this year’s prizes - the deadline is Tuesday 15th July. For more information see: www.rgs.org/research/res...
The International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering (AGLE) Annual Conference 2025 will be held from 5-8 November 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand.
RGRG members interested in attending can find further details at agleconference2025.com
RGRG members interested in attending can find further details at agleconference2025.com
AGLE 2025
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April 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering (AGLE) Annual Conference 2025 will be held from 5-8 November 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand.
RGRG members interested in attending can find further details at agleconference2025.com
RGRG members interested in attending can find further details at agleconference2025.com
The deadline for the RGRG ESRS grant has been extended to Friday 30th May 2025.
All ECRs (including PhD students) presenting a paper and/or convening a session at the ESRS are welcome to apply. More details are available here: rgrg.co.uk/our-grants
All ECRs (including PhD students) presenting a paper and/or convening a session at the ESRS are welcome to apply. More details are available here: rgrg.co.uk/our-grants
Our Grants – Rural Geography Research Group
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April 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The deadline for the RGRG ESRS grant has been extended to Friday 30th May 2025.
All ECRs (including PhD students) presenting a paper and/or convening a session at the ESRS are welcome to apply. More details are available here: rgrg.co.uk/our-grants
All ECRs (including PhD students) presenting a paper and/or convening a session at the ESRS are welcome to apply. More details are available here: rgrg.co.uk/our-grants
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📢 New book: ‘Postcapitalist Countrysides’ @uclpress.bsky.social! From land commoning and rural social enterprises, to experimental food commons, Indigenous collectives & land art practices. And more! Co-edited with N Gallent, @markscott-ucd.bsky.social & A Purves
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February 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📢 New book: ‘Postcapitalist Countrysides’ @uclpress.bsky.social! From land commoning and rural social enterprises, to experimental food commons, Indigenous collectives & land art practices. And more! Co-edited with N Gallent, @markscott-ucd.bsky.social & A Purves
uclpress.co.uk/book/postcapit…
uclpress.co.uk/book/postcapit…
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Grim but essential reading. ‘after four years of sewage sludge spreading, microplastic levels in the fields it tested rose by up to 1,450%…’ with ‘little reduction in the soil of microplastics dumped 22 years ago: once they arrive, they don’t leave.’
A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Grim but essential reading. ‘after four years of sewage sludge spreading, microplastic levels in the fields it tested rose by up to 1,450%…’ with ‘little reduction in the soil of microplastics dumped 22 years ago: once they arrive, they don’t leave.’
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"When things disappear from the landscape, then something also disappears from our identity.”
Using oral histories to explore the links between cultural and biological diversity
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Using oral histories to explore the links between cultural and biological diversity
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Oral histories reveal biocultural diversity across three regions of rural Germany
Biocultural diversity is the concept of links between human cultural diversity and biological diversity. In rural regions, where forests…
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March 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"When things disappear from the landscape, then something also disappears from our identity.”
Using oral histories to explore the links between cultural and biological diversity
medium.com/people-natur...
Using oral histories to explore the links between cultural and biological diversity
medium.com/people-natur...
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New open access paper on farmers, globalization, populism and support for Bolsonaro in southern Brazil, with reflection on qualitative methods in electoral geography. Based Rural-Spatial-Justice and Global-Rural research: periodicos.uff.br/geographia/a...
March 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
New open access paper on farmers, globalization, populism and support for Bolsonaro in southern Brazil, with reflection on qualitative methods in electoral geography. Based Rural-Spatial-Justice and Global-Rural research: periodicos.uff.br/geographia/a...
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101 Outdoor Arts are based at Greenham Common, Newbury, a former RAF base that once stationed 96 American nuclear missiles.
In the 1980s, a group of West Berkshire commoners rose up in response, and made a disproportionate impact on the international arms race.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2020/06...
In the 1980s, a group of West Berkshire commoners rose up in response, and made a disproportionate impact on the international arms race.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2020/06...
Contested Countryside: Commons & the Cold War - The Museum of English Rural Life
How did a small group of West Berkshire Commoners impact on the US-USSR nuclear arms race in the 1980s? Read on and find out.
merl.reading.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
101 Outdoor Arts are based at Greenham Common, Newbury, a former RAF base that once stationed 96 American nuclear missiles.
In the 1980s, a group of West Berkshire commoners rose up in response, and made a disproportionate impact on the international arms race.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2020/06...
In the 1980s, a group of West Berkshire commoners rose up in response, and made a disproportionate impact on the international arms race.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2020/06...
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We're new here so here's a quick introduction. We're a 5-year project selected by @erc.europa.eu & funded by @ukri.org on connections between rural discontent & disruptive politics through a spatial justice lens. Find out more about us here: ruralspatialjustice.substack.com/p/introducin...
INTRODUCING RURAL DISCONTENT, DISRUPTIVE POLITICS AND SPATIAL JUSTICE
Welcome to the Rural Discontent, Disruptive Politics and Spatial Justice Substack, where we’ll be exploring all things to do with rural politics and protest around the world and connections to disrupt...
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February 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We're new here so here's a quick introduction. We're a 5-year project selected by @erc.europa.eu & funded by @ukri.org on connections between rural discontent & disruptive politics through a spatial justice lens. Find out more about us here: ruralspatialjustice.substack.com/p/introducin...
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RGRG sponsored sessions at the RGS Annual International Conference 2025
Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.
Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.
Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2025 – RGRG Sponsored Sessions – Rural Geography Research Group
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February 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
RGRG sponsored sessions at the RGS Annual International Conference 2025
Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.
Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.
Rural Entrepreneurship Conference, Bangor, 3-5 June 2025
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 5pm, Monday 10 March. More details are available here: www.bangor.ac.uk/events/22nd-...
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 5pm, Monday 10 March. More details are available here: www.bangor.ac.uk/events/22nd-...
22nd Rural Entrepreneurship Conference (REC2025)
The event will take place in person and will bring together a wide range of national and international academics, practitioners, public servants, and other stakeholders to discuss various aspects of r...
www.bangor.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Rural Entrepreneurship Conference, Bangor, 3-5 June 2025
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 5pm, Monday 10 March. More details are available here: www.bangor.ac.uk/events/22nd-...
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 5pm, Monday 10 March. More details are available here: www.bangor.ac.uk/events/22nd-...
European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, Riga, 7-11 July 2025
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to Friday 28 February. More details are available here: esrs2025.rsu.lv
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to Friday 28 February. More details are available here: esrs2025.rsu.lv
esrs2025.rsu.lv
February 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, Riga, 7-11 July 2025
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to Friday 28 February. More details are available here: esrs2025.rsu.lv
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to Friday 28 February. More details are available here: esrs2025.rsu.lv
RGRG sponsored sessions at the RGS Annual International Conference 2025
Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.
Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.
Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2025 – RGRG Sponsored Sessions – Rural Geography Research Group
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February 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
RGRG sponsored sessions at the RGS Annual International Conference 2025
Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.
Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.
PhD Opportunity: Carbon farming: co-creation for behavioural change within a supportive AKIS
For more details on this PhD project please see: jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
For more details on this PhD project please see: jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Harper Adams University: Funded PhD Studentship: Carbon farming: co-creation for behavioural change within a supportive AKIS
Funded PhD Studentship: Carbon farming: co-creation for behavioural change within a supportive AKISDirector of Studies: Professor David Rose (Harper Adams, Agriculture and Environment Department), Dr ...
jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk
February 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
PhD Opportunity: Carbon farming: co-creation for behavioural change within a supportive AKIS
For more details on this PhD project please see: jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
For more details on this PhD project please see: jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
PhD Opportunity: Food ethics and food system resilience in the industrial and small-scale egg sector
For more details on this PhD project please see: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...
For more details on this PhD project please see: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Food ethics and food system resilience in the industrial and small-scale egg sector
Discover more about our research project: Food ethics and food system resilience in the industrial and small-scale egg sector at the University of Southampton.
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February 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
PhD Opportunity: Food ethics and food system resilience in the industrial and small-scale egg sector
For more details on this PhD project please see: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...
For more details on this PhD project please see: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Call for Papers! I co-organized a
session on rural geography in Global South Regions @rgsibg.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference, kindly sponsored by @ruralgrg.bsky.social .
Abstract submission ddl: 28 Feb 2025.
For details, pls see the cfp below.
We sincerely welcome your contributions!
session on rural geography in Global South Regions @rgsibg.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference, kindly sponsored by @ruralgrg.bsky.social .
Abstract submission ddl: 28 Feb 2025.
For details, pls see the cfp below.
We sincerely welcome your contributions!
February 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Call for Papers! I co-organized a
session on rural geography in Global South Regions @rgsibg.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference, kindly sponsored by @ruralgrg.bsky.social .
Abstract submission ddl: 28 Feb 2025.
For details, pls see the cfp below.
We sincerely welcome your contributions!
session on rural geography in Global South Regions @rgsibg.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference, kindly sponsored by @ruralgrg.bsky.social .
Abstract submission ddl: 28 Feb 2025.
For details, pls see the cfp below.
We sincerely welcome your contributions!
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of our Rural Geography Research Group @rgsibg.bsky.social, we're sharing an overview of the Group's history and work, published in the Journal of Rural Studies.
Read the article for free until 6 Feb 2025. spkl.io/6011fXQ5t
Read the article for free until 6 Feb 2025. spkl.io/6011fXQ5t
The Rural Geography Research Group at 50: Reflections on an evolving community of practice
This paper explores the development and work of the Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society over the last fifty years …
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February 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of our Rural Geography Research Group @rgsibg.bsky.social, we're sharing an overview of the Group's history and work, published in the Journal of Rural Studies.
Read the article for free until 6 Feb 2025. spkl.io/6011fXQ5t
Read the article for free until 6 Feb 2025. spkl.io/6011fXQ5t
@rgsibg.bsky.social RGS Annual International Conference 2025
We invite anyone interested in organising an RGRG-sponsored session to submit a proposal. Please email the following to Aimee Morse (amorse1@glos.ac.uk) and Martin Phillips (mpp2@leicester.ac.uk) no later than Friday 14th February 2025.
We invite anyone interested in organising an RGRG-sponsored session to submit a proposal. Please email the following to Aimee Morse (amorse1@glos.ac.uk) and Martin Phillips (mpp2@leicester.ac.uk) no later than Friday 14th February 2025.
February 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
@rgsibg.bsky.social RGS Annual International Conference 2025
We invite anyone interested in organising an RGRG-sponsored session to submit a proposal. Please email the following to Aimee Morse (amorse1@glos.ac.uk) and Martin Phillips (mpp2@leicester.ac.uk) no later than Friday 14th February 2025.
We invite anyone interested in organising an RGRG-sponsored session to submit a proposal. Please email the following to Aimee Morse (amorse1@glos.ac.uk) and Martin Phillips (mpp2@leicester.ac.uk) no later than Friday 14th February 2025.