Welcome fellow postgrads to RGS-PGF’s latest interactive event – Local Geography Week. A big thank you to everyone who shared pictures of their local geographies. Why however, did we choose to focus on local geographies? Surely in 2020, people are tired of their local spaces due to multiple lockdowns and restrictions on travel? Aimee, the…
Postgrad Life: The Blog
A welcome and a warning from a postdoctoral researcher: Prioritising radical dependence, reciprocity and rest in the PhD
Friendship, rest, collaboration, and slowness need to be part of a collective reframing of success and failure in the PhD and beyond. The impulse to entangle our identities with our work is a powerful one, but when this consumes everything else that we are, we also damage ourselves, our relationships, our worlds and the work itself. Maintaining lives, communities, interests and activities outside of the university and workplace is necessary to surviving a PhD, but it is more important than this, it is part of just being. They are vital for keeping the PhD in perspective, and for rooting us in places that we do belong where so often the university does not offer this security.
Looking back at the PGF Twitter Conference
In any usual academic year, one of the highlights is attending conferences. Whether it’s to present new findings and ideas, being in the audience for presentations jotting down notes, whipping out your phone to snap a slide, asking questions or networking with other researchers in your field conferences are an annual gathering we look forward…
Turning experiences into research: A conversation with Christy Hehir about tourism’s role in conservation
Social Research Council). My environmental psychology-based PhD research collaborates with leading tour operators and international wildlife charities to measure when and why tourists donate to charity.
PGF@home Creative Research Week 24th – 26th June 2020
We launched our first Creative Research Week at the end of June calling on our Twitter community of Postgraduate Geographers to share their research in a creative way. Be that through photography, poetry, videography or interpretive dance! We were excited to see what would be shared on Twitter and we were not disappointed. A big…
RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Twitter Conference 2020 – Schedule now live!
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…
RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Research Week – 24th-26th June 2020
Research Week is an opportunity to share a brief snapshot of your research, in a creative way! How you represent your research is up to you, but your tweets could include photos from previous fieldwork experiences, drawings of your findings or a poem relating your research journey. When you write your posts, be sure to…
Publishing in Geography (Part 3): My article has been accepted, what’s next?
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,…
Publishing in Geography (Part 2): Preparing, submitting, and revising a manuscript
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…
Publishing in Geography (Part 1): What, why, when, where and how?
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…