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...

This is a written version of one of our papers presented to the @psaepop.bsky.social conference in Exeter last weekend. open.substack.com/pub/ruralspa...

TLDR spoiler: The Reform vote is remarkably consistent across rural and urban areas, marking a big departure from the UK's conventional electoral geography. But there are regional & local variations & differents in Reform's capacity to turn votes into seats. open.substack.com/pub/ruralspa...

Where is Reform UK winning? Read our analysis of Reform's local elections vote across rural & urban England - and what it means for the electoral geography of Britain: open.substack.com/pub/ruralspa...

All ready for a busy couple of days with @lpipruralwales.bsky.social at the Royal Welsh Show. @lpiphub.bsky.social

New on our free Substack: Notes from Appalachia. What's behind Trump's landslide in eastern Kentucky? Musings on our scoping visit & reading and thoughts on how we'll approach case study fieldwork (with a little myth-busting). open.substack.com/pub/ruralspa...

Already Lincolnshire results suggest a different pattern with some big Reform votes in rural wards. Which will be most typical at the end of the day?

Important pattern here in Northumberland: Reform doing less well (& Tories holding on) in more rural areas. Reform surge is urban & periurban. Will be interesting to see if this holds in other councils as results come in today

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...

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-...

"It is now possible to travel from Bandera in Texas to New Witten in South Dakota without leaving a county where more than 80 per cent of voters supported Trump, a roadtrip of over 1,000 miles". Read more in our free substack article: ruralspatialjustice.substack.com/p/review-of-...

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.

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...

Oslo friends, a few (free) tickets still up for grabs to join this excellent seminar the morning of Thursday 16 January: lettenprize.com/2024/12/05/s...