The following themed sessions have been accepted for AC2010:

• ‘Geographers helping’ – Undertaking fieldwork through a participatory role in the ‘helping’ professions.  Sponsored by: Geography of Health Research Group; Participatory Geographies Working Group
  
  
• ‘Terra incognita’? Making space for medieval geographies (4 sessions).  Sponsored by: Historical Geography Research Group
  
  
• ‘There is no place like home!’ – Why historians would want to use GIS.  Sponsored by: Geographical Information Science Research Group; History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group
  
  
• 2011 GB Census.  Sponsored by: Population Geography Research Group
  
  
• Absence. Materiality, embodiment, resistance (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
  
  
• Anarchist geographies: Place, identity and participatory approaches.  Sponsored by: Participatory Geographies Working Group
  
  
• Body to Body: geographies of donation and transplantation.  Sponsored by: Geography of Health Research Group
  
  
• Can we have political Actor-Networks?.  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Challenges of changing environmental objectives for state actors: implications for theory and practice.  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Change or continuity? Obama’s ‘new beginning’ one year on..  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Children, young people and 'sustainability' (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working Group; Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
  
  
• Citizens-in-becoming? New spaces of parenting, early childhood and welfare (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working Group; Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
  
  
• Climate change and transport (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Transport Geography Research Group
  
  
• Complex Geographies of Post-Crisis Social Movements.  Sponsored by: Political Geography Research Group
  
  
• Complex Geographies of Post-Crisis Social Movements.  Sponsored by: Political Geography Research Group
  
  
• Creating a sustainable economy: new trajectories for smart growth.  Sponsored by: Planning and Environment Research Group
  
  
• Deportation Geographies (session + film).  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Development in the Rural South: bio-economic crises lead to ‘new’ agricultural revolutions.  Sponsored by: Rural Geography Research Group; Developing Areas Research Group
  
  
• Dissemination in the age of 'impact': implications for the politics of research in the global south.  Sponsored by: Developing Areas Research Group
  
  
• Diverse Transitions: Diverse embodied transitions.  Sponsored by: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working Group; Space Sexualities and Queer Working Group; Participatory Geographies Working Group; Planning and Environment Research Group
  
  
• Diverse Transitions: Diverse societal transitions.  Sponsored by: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working Group; Space Sexualities and Queer Working Group; Participatory Geographies Working Group; Planning and Environment Research Group
  
  
• Doing Geography, Doing Gender.  Sponsored by: Women and Geography Study Group; Participatory Geographies Working Group; Space, Sexualities and Queer Working Group
  
  
• Education Geographies (4 sessions).  Sponsored by: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group
  
  
• Emerging Themes in Geography - Interactive Short Papers.  Sponsored by: Postgraduate Forum
  
  
• Enhancing Complex Social Simulations with Automata Systems.  Sponsored by: Geographical Information Science Research Group; Quantitative Methods Research Group
  
  
• Feminist and Gender Geographies: emerging research and researchers (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Women and Geography Study Group
  
  
• Food Security: geographical perspectives & implications for agri-food studies (4 sessions).  Sponsored by: Rural Geography Research Group
  
  
• Fuller Geographies: beyond the academy.  Sponsored by: Participatory Geographies Research Group
  
  
• GEES Subject Centre: Induction to University programmes.  Sponsored by: The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES).
  
  
• GEES Subject Centre: Teaching and Learning at Taught Masters Level.  Sponsored by: The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES).
  
  
• Gendered spaces of commoditized caring (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Women and Geography Study Group
  
  
• Geographical Political Economies of Incarceration (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Political Geography Research Group
  
  
• Geographies of (dis)ability, (ill) health, emotion and affect (4 sessions).  Sponsored by: Geography of Health Research Group
  
  
• Geographies of Black Internationalism.  Sponsored by: Historical Geography Research Group; Political Geography Research Group
  
  
• Geographies of Privilege.  Sponsored by: Space, Sexualities and Queer Working Group; Women and Geography Study Group
  
  
• Geographies of rationality (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group
  
  
• Geographies of Religion, Spirituality and Faith.  Sponsored by: Geographies of Religion, Spirituality and Faith Working Group
  
  
• Geography and the Future (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
  
  
• Geography and Twentieth Century British Poetry (session plus reading).  Sponsored by: Social and Cultural Geography Research Group; Landscape Surgery (RHUL)
  
  
• Geography, Community Engagement and Citizenship.  Sponsored by: Higher Education Research Group
  
  
• Getting away from it all - Embodied practices and engagements with the 'natural' (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Social and Cultural Geography Research Group; Women and Geography Study Group
  
  
• GIS for Environmental Modelling.  Sponsored by: Geographical Information Science Research Group
  
  
• Global Production Networks, Labour and Development (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Economic Geography Research Group; Developing Areas Research Group
  
  
• Globalising political ecology: a high time for ‘other’ political ecology?.  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Governance and the Geoweb.  Sponsored by: Geographical Information Science Research Group
  
  
• Healthy Countrysides? (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Rural Geography Research Group; Geography of Health Research Group
  
  
• Healthy Places.  Sponsored by: Geography of Health Research Group
  
  
• Hotels: political geographical investigations (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Political Geography Research Group
  
  
• Innovation in transport and tourism research: Sustainability, Transport and Tourism (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Transport Geography Research Group
  
  
• Innovative spaces of learning: debating their origin, nature and pedagogical significance (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Higher Education Research Group; Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group; Space, Sexualities and Queer Working Group
  
  
• Landscape and Living with Environmental Challenge and Change.  Sponsored by: Landscape Research Group
  
  
• Landscapes of Age and Justice.  Sponsored by: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working Group; Participatory Geographies Working Group
  
  
• Lifestyle Mobilities and Corporealities: Intersections and Issues.  Sponsored by: Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group, Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
  
  
• Living on the Move: Finding and Maintaining Stability Through Movement.  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Mapping Underground: Representing Subterranean Spaces, Practices and Cultures.  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Mediating the Tourist Experience: The Role of the Media in Contemporary Tourism (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group
  
  
• Migrant transnationalism, integration and place (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Population Geography Research Group
  
  
• Migrant workers: spaces for organising and resistance.  Sponsored by: Participatory Geographies Working Group; Developing Areas Research Group
  
  
• Migration and migrants in a time of crisis and thereafter: economic repercussions, strategies to cope and beyond.  Sponsored by: Population Geography Research Group; Economic Geography Research Group
  
  
• Migration Blurrings: Exploring the Social Orientated Motives for Mobility and Migration (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group
  
  
• Narrating the stories of travel and tourism: Historical Narratives of Travel (4 sessions).  Sponsored by: Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group; Historical Geography Research Group
  
  
• New and Emerging Research in Historical Geography (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Historical Geography Research Group
  
  
• New and Emerging Rural Researchers (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Rural Geography Research Group
  
  
• Participation in environmental policy and planning: exploring methodological research problems  (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Participatory academic workplaces: strategies for wellbeing.  Sponsored by: Participatory Geographies Research Group
  
  
• 'Places without a place': The geographies of ships (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Historical Geography Research Group; Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
  
  
• Planning for, and Adapting to, Environmental Disasters.  Sponsored by: Planning and Environment Research Group
  
  
• Postgraduate Research in Transport (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Transport Geography Research Group
  
  
• Postgraduate research on contemporary population geographies.  Sponsored by: Population Geography Research Group
  
  
• Postgraduate Session: Analysing and Visualising Social Change.  Sponsored by: Geographical Information Science Research Group
  
  
• Post-Industrial Landscapes – Insights from Art, Geography and Landscape Architecture.  Sponsored by: Landscape Research Group; Landscape Institute
  
  
• Post-liberal forms of development in Latin America: Beyond standard categories?.  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Regional and local governance of the low-carbon economy (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Planning and Environment Research Group
  
  
• Research(ing) Ethics in Tourism (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group
  
  
• Resilient Firms, Resilient Regions – Adapting to the Global Economic Crisis and Climate Change.  Sponsored by: Economic Geography Research Group
  
  
• Rural Community Resilience (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Rural Geography Research Group
  
  
• Science, politics and the nature of environmental debates (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Sense of place, identity and culture in fishing communities.  Sponsored by: Coastal and Marine Working Group
  
  
• Sharing experiences of fieldwork in developing countries.  Sponsored by: Developing Areas Research Group
  
  
• Social and Cultural Geographies of the Coast (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Urban Geography Research Group; Coastal and Marine Working Group; Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
  
  
• Socialist and Post-Socialist Mobilities (4 sessions).  Sponsored by: Post-Socialist Geographies Research Group
  
  
• Sonic methods in human geography (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Spaces designed with/for/by children, young people and families.  Sponsored by: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working Group
  
  
• Sustaining Success? New urban Strategies in the aftermath of the Credit Crunch (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Planning and Environment Research Group; Urban Geography Research Group
  
  
• The changing landscape of foreign aid in the 21C (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Developing Areas Research Group
  
  
• The economic geography and management interface: building opportunities for knowledge exchange? (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Economic Geography Research Group
  
  
• The economy of qualities – distinctions and consequences (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• The edges of the everyday: re-theorising the border.  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• The geographies of creativity and its links to local development: issues and challenges (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Economic Geography Research Group
  
  
• The New Politics of ‘Sustainable’ Urban Infrastructure (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Planning and Environment Research Group
  
  
• The Political Geography of Climate Change.  Sponsored by: Political Geography Research Group
  
  
• The role of religious organisations in social change in Asia.  Sponsored by: Geographies of Religion, Spirituality and Faith Working Group; Developing Areas Research Group
  
  
• The spatial dimensions of health (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Geography of Health Research Group, Quantitative Methods Research Group
  
  
• The varieties of urban capitalism and the limits of neo-liberalism: Towards a research agenda (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Urban Geography Research Group; Political Geography Research Group
  
  
• Theorising the production and reproduction of city economies (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Urban Geography Research Group; Economic Geography Research Group
  
  
• Theorising the Sea (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: N/A
  
  
• Transforming learning through geography.  Sponsored by: Higher Education Research Group
  
  
• Travelling faith : exploring the intersections of religion and migration (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Social and Cultural Geography Research Group, Population Geography Research Group, and Geographies of Religion, Spirtuality and Faith Working Group
  
  
• Urban Planning Terrains (4 sessions).  Sponsored by: Urban Geography Research Group; Planning and Environment Research Group
  
  
• Urban Subversions: Conceptualising alternative urban pastimes in the modern World City (2 sessions + fieldtrip).  Sponsored by: Urban Geography Research Group; Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group
  
  
• What are surfaces? (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Historical Geography Research Group; History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group
  
  
• What is critical urbanism? (3 sessions).  Sponsored by: Urban Geography Research Group
  
  
• Writing Successfully for Learning and Teaching.  Sponsored by: Higher Education Research Group
  
  
• Youth geographies of in/civility.  Sponsored by: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working Group; Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
  
  
• Youthful spaces of belief (2 sessions).  Sponsored by: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working Group; Geographies or Religion, Spirituality and Faith Working Group