Dr Catherine Oliver is a geographer currently working with urban chickens and keepers in London at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. She published her first book, Veganism, Archives and Animals, with Routledge in 2021. Since 2018, she has been leading a project exploring academic conferences as sites of identity formation, exclusion, and power…
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RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Mid-Term Conference 2022 – Schedule now live!
The schedule for this year’s PGF Mid-term Conference, entitled Postgraduate research in Geography: challenges and encounters in and beyond the field, is now available. The conference will be held online via Zoom on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th April, 2022, 10am – 5pm. You can download the schedule from here. If you haven’t already, you can also register…
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…
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…
Postgraduate experiences of convening a session at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
This blog post contains some reflections from members of the geographical postgraduate community on their personal experiences of organising an RGS-IBG conference session.