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…
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PGF@Home: A Very 2020 Story
Home. What a word that has been this year. A multifaceted word which seems simple, yet 2020 has made us reflect on what home means more than ever. ‘Home’ could be our hometown where we grew up as children, ‘home’ could be where we are right now, ‘home’ could be the university campus, a flat…
Working from Home: How to make it work for you
We are very happy to share a blogpost this week from Emma and Liz from the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group (GCYFRG). They created this post to help other geographers in their group – however, as we now enter ‘Lockdown 2’ in the UK there are plenty of good tips here to…
Looking back at Local Geography Week
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…
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…
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…