Tess Osborne
@tessosborne.bsky.social
Lecturer @ University of Leicester
Chair of the DGRG
H. Fellow @ @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @frw-rug.bsky.social
An undisciplined geographer interested in the digital, embodiment, methods and health & wellbeing.
Web: https://www.tess-osborne.co.uk
Chair of the DGRG
H. Fellow @ @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @frw-rug.bsky.social
An undisciplined geographer interested in the digital, embodiment, methods and health & wellbeing.
Web: https://www.tess-osborne.co.uk
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Save Geography at the University of Leicester
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Save Geography at the University of Leicester
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November 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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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 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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
@geogdurham.bsky.social
@geogdurham.bsky.social
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We're looking for fantastic digital geographers to join our committee!
A few committee roles are open, and we’d love to see new (and familiar) faces step up. It’s a chance to meet other digital geographers and help shape what we do next.
Apply here: shorturl.at/kvDIv
Deadline: 24th Sept.
A few committee roles are open, and we’d love to see new (and familiar) faces step up. It’s a chance to meet other digital geographers and help shape what we do next.
Apply here: shorturl.at/kvDIv
Deadline: 24th Sept.
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September 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
We're looking for fantastic digital geographers to join our committee!
A few committee roles are open, and we’d love to see new (and familiar) faces step up. It’s a chance to meet other digital geographers and help shape what we do next.
Apply here: shorturl.at/kvDIv
Deadline: 24th Sept.
A few committee roles are open, and we’d love to see new (and familiar) faces step up. It’s a chance to meet other digital geographers and help shape what we do next.
Apply here: shorturl.at/kvDIv
Deadline: 24th Sept.
We have a new paper in @wssjournal.bsky.social: “Caring with: positioning social support in landscapes of care.”
It argues that social support is central to sustaining informal dementia care, reshaping how care is organised and experienced.
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It argues that social support is central to sustaining informal dementia care, reshaping how care is organised and experienced.
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Caring with: positioning social support in landscapes of care
Informal caring is often framed as an individualised activity, with support networks positioned as peripheral rather than integral to sustaining care.…
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August 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
We have a new paper in @wssjournal.bsky.social: “Caring with: positioning social support in landscapes of care.”
It argues that social support is central to sustaining informal dementia care, reshaping how care is organised and experienced.
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It argues that social support is central to sustaining informal dementia care, reshaping how care is organised and experienced.
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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August 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Three @dgrgrgs.bsky.social chairs, no table #RGSIBG25
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Attending RGS-IBG AC25? Before the main conference kicks off, please join us for our pre-conference workshop on Tuesday 26th August, 12pm-5pm, in the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann...
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Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann...
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Pre-conference activities - RGS
Find out more about activities taking place in the run-up to the conference.
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August 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Attending RGS-IBG AC25? Before the main conference kicks off, please join us for our pre-conference workshop on Tuesday 26th August, 12pm-5pm, in the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann...
@rgsibg.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann...
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Human Geography at Leicester is ranked No.1 in the UK for overall positivity in the 2025 NSS 🥇🎉
Massive thanks to our students for the feedback and the brilliant staff who made it happen. I’m proud to be part of GGE!
Read more: le.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
#Geography #HumanGeography #NSS2025
Massive thanks to our students for the feedback and the brilliant staff who made it happen. I’m proud to be part of GGE!
Read more: le.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
#Geography #HumanGeography #NSS2025
July 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Human Geography at Leicester is ranked No.1 in the UK for overall positivity in the 2025 NSS 🥇🎉
Massive thanks to our students for the feedback and the brilliant staff who made it happen. I’m proud to be part of GGE!
Read more: le.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
#Geography #HumanGeography #NSS2025
Massive thanks to our students for the feedback and the brilliant staff who made it happen. I’m proud to be part of GGE!
Read more: le.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
#Geography #HumanGeography #NSS2025
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Last week was our Global Digital Geographies Symposium with speakers from China, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, Iran, the US, UK & more making it our most international symposium! Thank you to everyone who presented work, attended sessions, & discussed emerging ideas 1/3
#DGRGSymposium2025
#DGRGSymposium2025
June 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Last week was our Global Digital Geographies Symposium with speakers from China, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, Iran, the US, UK & more making it our most international symposium! Thank you to everyone who presented work, attended sessions, & discussed emerging ideas 1/3
#DGRGSymposium2025
#DGRGSymposium2025
With the student grades now released, it’s the end of the academic year for me (yay!)
I’m very much looking forward to getting into some writing this summer; especially a new digital geographies book with the fantastic @samkinsley.uk #newbook #watchthisspace
I’m very much looking forward to getting into some writing this summer; especially a new digital geographies book with the fantastic @samkinsley.uk #newbook #watchthisspace
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May 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
With the student grades now released, it’s the end of the academic year for me (yay!)
I’m very much looking forward to getting into some writing this summer; especially a new digital geographies book with the fantastic @samkinsley.uk #newbook #watchthisspace
I’m very much looking forward to getting into some writing this summer; especially a new digital geographies book with the fantastic @samkinsley.uk #newbook #watchthisspace
Clear skies for the Berlin field course 🇩🇪🌤️
April 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Clear skies for the Berlin field course 🇩🇪🌤️
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Guess who has finally arrived on bluesky?
Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing.
#digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe
Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing.
#digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe
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April 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Guess who has finally arrived on bluesky?
Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing.
#digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe
Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing.
#digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe
It was a pleasure to be in Poznań week talking to colleagues and graduate students about VR and NeRF techniques. Thank you to @michalrzeszewski.bsky.social for the invitation!
April 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It was a pleasure to be in Poznań week talking to colleagues and graduate students about VR and NeRF techniques. Thank you to @michalrzeszewski.bsky.social for the invitation!