Category: Blog

Between 19th to 23rd April, the Postgraduate Forum Mid-Term Conference went wholly digital for the first time in its eight year history. Instead of a university to gather and converse in; we instead made our way to Zoom, Slack and Twitter, keen to provide a space in which postgraduate researchers could present their work following…

This time last year, I was the PGF Masters Representative and, along with several others working on the PGF@Home initiative, focusing on the support we could deliver remotely during lockdown. This was particularly important given the cancellation of both the Mid-Term and Annual Conferences, as we wanted to give postgraduates from across the discipline the…

As I’m writing this on a sunny March morning, reflecting on my past year as the blog co-ordinator for RGS-PGF – there is a mixture of both achievement and sadness. As a group, we came together and faced a predicament that no other postgraduate committee before us has faced. On our first meeting, we had…

I don’t really know where to begin. I’m writing this lying on my bed listening to Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds of Love’ album and it is throwing it down with rain outside. There go my plans for a walk out of the window! The start of the COVID-19 pandemic seems years ago now, and we’re coming…

Dr Giada Peterle is a geographer and is currently lecturer in Literary Geography at the University of Padua where she worked on a post-doctoral project entitled ‘Urban Literary Geographies: Mapping the City Through Narrative Interpretation and Creative Practice’. Her research looks at narrative forms such as literature, comics and creative maps to understand how we…

UPDATE: The schedule for the conference, which runs from Tuesday 25th of August to Thursday 27th of August, is now available! Click 👉here👈 to download the schedule. We’ve also produced a comprehensive audience guide – available here. What is the PGF Twitter Conference? This conference is an opportunity for PhD students in geography and related…

This is the third and final post in a series of reflections on publishing in geography, which we’re sharing as part of PGF@Home. You can find part one here, and part two here. In my first two blog posts on publishing, I discussed both the basic principles of academic publishing, and how to prepare, submit,…

This is the second in a series of reflections on publishing in geography, which we’re sharing as part of PGF@Home. You can find part one here, and part three here. In the first blog on this topic, I looked at the basic principles of academic publishing, focusing on questions of what, why, when, where and…

By Phil Emmerson, Managing Editor: Academic Publications (RGS-IBG) This is the first in a series of reflections on publishing in geography, which we’re sharing as part of PGF@Home. You can find part two here, and part three here. ‘Publishing’ is a fundamental part of academic life. Lots of many academics’ time is spent thinking about…