RGS Explore Weekend speakers and facilitators
Meet the world-leading experts who generously share insights and advice from their deep involvement in geographical exploration.
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Aleks Vladimirov
Dr Aleks Vladimirov leads Adapt Inc. Research Labs. The lab focuses on decision-making research, exploring the interactions between people, places, and technology.
Carl Cater
Carl is Associate Professor in tourism at Swansea University in Wales as well as Professor at the University of Highlands and Islands, Scotland.
Charlotte Austwick
Charlotte Austwick is an award-winning explorer, anthropologist, writer, and public speaker. She is currently a PhD researcher in social anthropology within the Department of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on human-environmental relationships and how they are being transformed in the 21st century.
Chloe Robinson
Chloe is a social researcher exploring place-based and embodied knowledge to highlight local worldviews in ecological conservation.
Dr Lia Kajiki
Dr Lia Kajiki is a Brazilian biologist, ornithologist, and National Geographic Explorer, with an insatiable curiosity about how nature works and finding solutions rooted in a community-driven approach to protect biodiversity.
Hattie Field
Hattie is an experienced project manager whose interest in politics, people and environments, has led her to complete fieldwork across the Middle East and Asia.
Madeleine Foote
Madeleine is a social scientist, journalist and oral historian currently completing a PhD at the University of Oxford. Before starting postgraduate research, she worked for National Geographic, collaborating on numerous conservation and storytelling projects. Her research combines her experience of remote fieldwork with her passion for community-based participatory research.
Michael Murphy
Michael is an explorer and anthropologist. He studies how extreme journeys change the deepest part of people’s identities. He has worked with refugees, undocumented migrants, and analogue astronauts.
Michelle Sanders
Michelle is a filmmaker and social scientist. Her work focuses on exploring peoples’ relationships to the planet, with a particular interest in our connections to the sea.
Poppy Burgess
Poppy Burgess is an undergraduate at The University of St Andrews who has a passion for ethical and inclusive fieldwork.
Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips is Professor of Human Geography at Sheffield University, where he teaches social and cultural geography and leads field classes, international and local. Richard’s research and teaching have revolved around curiosity and creativity, adventure and exploration.
Sarah McArthur
Sarah is a humanitarian researcher who’s lived in D.R.C., Afghanistan, C.A.R. and Ukraine, and a free-lance journalist who recently visited Cameroon to hear coastal communities’ stories.
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