Having never written a blog post before I’m not sure how this will turn out, but here goes…. Hi, I’m Emily Hill and I’m a first year Physical Geography PhD Student at Newcastle University. My project is looking into outlet glacier retreat in northern Greenland, relating this to changes in external environmental forcing (atmospheric/oceanic and…
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9. Urban Ecology and Citizen Science
Hi my name is Victoria and I am a first year PhD researcher in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. For want of a better description I am an urban ecologist, with a love for citizen science, conservation and environmental education. These are all areas of science I…
8. A busy week
Hello, I’m Sarah Hughes, a second year PhD student at Durham University. My research explores creativity and resistance within the UK’s asylum regime and I’m currently in the midst of an enjoyable muddle of data collection, reading, writing and teaching. I’ve written this blog post in the form of diary entries, covering what turned out…
7. Reflections of a Pseudo-Geographer
Jennifer Hoolachan, University of St Andrews. I am not a geographer. Or at least I didn’t plan to be. Let me explain. As with most PhD students, I have been in academia for a long time – 12 years in fact – gathering qualifications and moving from discipline to discipline. I have qualifications in Psychology,…
6. Infiltration
Infiltrating is a word that I have come to liberally and absolutely embrace. Infiltrating – I openly invite you into my life. Yet in a way, once you start thinking about it, we are all infiltrating, some way or another. I was infiltrating Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in 1996, as an Erasmus exchange student on…
5. Supervision Purgatory
Reading the previous blog entries, I feel like mine is going to be somewhat dull. I have not spent any time in Parliament like our esteemed chair, and nor have I been anywhere near any exciting conferences like our equally esteemed secretary. Instead, my week has mostly been spent in what I like to call…
4. A week in Manila: APEC, transcribing and Balut
Hello, I’m Maddy Thompson, a second year PhD student at Newcastle University, and one of the organisers for the 2016 RGS-IBG Postgraduate Mid-Term Conference (there’s still time to send in abstracts!). My research explores the geographical imaginations of Filipino nurses with regards to their migratory desires, and I’ve been living in Manila, the Philippines for…
3. Of Networking and Newspapers: Reflections of a Bumper Week
Hello, my name is Mark Lambert, I am in the third year of a PhD at the University of Nottingham which, broadly speaking, is focussed on railway heritage between 1948 and 1975 (why railway museums were established, what was put in them and where they were put) and I am the Secretary of the Royal…
2. Field trips and Fiestas
Hi, my name is Phil Emmerson, I am a second year PhD student at the University of Birmingham and the Annual Conference Session Coordinator for the PGF. This week has been a good week as far as capturing PhD life outside of the simple mechanics of writing and researching a PhD. The week for me…
1. A very political week…
Hello, my name is Greg Thomas and I am a third year human geography PhD student at Aberystwyth University. I am also the current Chairperson of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Postgraduate Forum. This blog section was my idea and I hope that over the coming months it will give inspiration, support, and an…