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Location
Two host-city Geography departments, University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University, will be involved in the 2009 conference.
 University of Manchester
Geography at the University of Manchester is part of the School of Environment and Development, and comprises nearly 30 full time academic staff working within four research groups (Geographical Political Economy; Environmental Processes; Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology; and new Space, Culture and Society).
These staff are also involved in several research centres including the Global Urban Research Centre, the Centre for Urban Policy Studies and the Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology. Located in a new state-of-the-art building, geographers at Manchester University work closely with colleagues in Planning & Landscape, the Institute for Development Policy and Management and the Centre for the Study of Political Economy.
They deliver two undergraduate programmes and several masters programmes, most recently the MSc in Environmental Governance.
Recent publications include City of flows (Maria Kaika), Social power and the urbanisation of water (Erik Swyngedwouw), Global shift 5th edition (Peter Dicken), Nature (Noel Castree), Economic geography: A contemporary introduction (Neil Coe et al.), and Geomorphology of upland peat (Martin Evans, with Jeff Warburton).
Manchester Metropolitan University
The Department of Environmental and Geographical sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University comprises over 30 academic staff working within three research groups (Earth Systems Science; Centre for Air Transport & the Environment (CATE); and Human Geography and GIS).
These staff are also involved in research centres, including the Dalton Research Institute and Manchester Institute for Social and Spatial Transformations. Situated in the John Dalton Building, the department is among the most research active of all the former polytechnic Geography departments in the UK.
Geographers at MMU are involved in 12 undergraduate programmes and several masters programmes, including those in The Contemporary City, Urban Regeneration, Ecological Monitoring, Sustainable Aviation, GIS and Spatial Analysis, Environmental Management and Sustainable Development and Countryside Management.
Recent staff publications include Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality (Tim Edensor), The Globalization of Sexuality (Jon Binnie), Cosmopolitan Urbanism (Jon Binnie, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Craig Young), and Environmental Sedimentology (Chris Perry and Kevin Tayor).
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