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Drs Lorna Philip & Fiona Williams explore digital implications of 'remote rural' for home businesses
Dr Lorna Philip and colleague Dr Fiona Williams explore the digital implications of ‘remote rural’ for home-based businesses at Collaborative ESRC Home Business Seminar Series, University of Southampton 10-11th Oct 2016. Lorna and Fiona’s paper is based on findings from the RuralPAWS project and explores the impacts of inadequate – or...
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Department of Geography & Environment welcomes visit from Professor Hildegardo Cordova Aguilar
It is a pleasure to announce that between Monday 26th and Wednesday 28th September the Department of Geography & Environment will be hosting Professor Hildegardo Cordova Aguilar of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima, Peru). Professor Cordova Aguilar is an internationally esteemed environmental geographer specialising in environmental sustainability and the...
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Prof. Kevin Edwards delivers keynote address at Quaternary Research Association Discussion Meeting
Prof. Kevin Edwards delivered the keynote address at the Quaternary Research Association Discussion Meeting (‘New approaches, new insights; how developments over the last 30 years have changed our understanding of the palaeoecology of the British Isles during the Holocene’). The meeting took place on 6-7 September at the National Museum...
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Dr Jean-Christophe Comte and Samson Oiro receive RGS Environment and Sustainability Research Grant
Dr Jean-Christophe Comte and PhD student Samson Oiro have received a £10k Environment and Sustainability Research Grant from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) for a project entitled, ‘East African groundwater resources under climatic and human pressure: A comparative study bringing field evidence to water sustainability in Kenya.’ The overall aim...
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David Watts & Ben Marsden (History) welcome new ESRC PhD student
David Watts (Geography) and Ben Marsden (History) have been awarded a PhD studentship by the Economic and Social Research Council, through the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science. The PhD, which has attracted collaborative funding from the Association of Meat Inspectors Trust, will examine the history of meat inspection in...
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Aberdeen Geography students amongst most satisfied in Scotland
The results of this year’s National Student Survey (NSS) shone a welcome spotlight upon the University of Aberdeen’s Department of Geography and Environment. Physical Geography received a 92% satisfaction rating from its students, ranking it first in Scotland overall, while Human and Social Geography ranked second across Scotland with a satisfaction...
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Dr Tavis Potts takes part in debate on the future of marine planning in Scotland
On the 15th of June Dr Tavis Potts participated as an invited panel member on a debate over the future of marine planning in Scotland. The panel, held in honour of the late Professor Laurence Mee, was hosted at the inaugural Sea Scotland conference in Dundee. The panel session closed...
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NERC funding for Greenland Ice Sheet research
Dr Brice Rea is part of a team, led by the University of Durham, which have just received £600k+ funding from NERC for a four year project on “Greenland in a warmer climate: What controls the advance & retreat of the NE Greenland Ice Stream”. The NE Greenland Ice Stream...
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Volcanoes vs Glaciers: Museum Lates at the British Science week
As part of the British Science Association’s Aberdeen Branch activities for British Science Week, volcanologist Dr Luca De Siena battled, in a double-header, against glaciologist Dr Brice Rea (ably supported by the rest of the glaciology team – Dr Matteo Spagnolo, Dr Danni Pearce and Dr Ramón Pellitero Ondicol). Each...
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Honorary Fellowships of the RSGS awarded to Tim Mighall and Lorna Philip
The Board of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) have invited Drs Tim Mighall and Lorna Philip to receive the Society’s Honorary Fellowship, in recognition of their “valuable contribution to the development of the Scottish Geographical Journal, for successfully co-editing it for the past six years, establishing it as a...