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Green journeys: rethinking travel and carbon
How can we travel responsibly in a warming world? Experts explore low-carbon transport options, sustainable tourism, and the role of geography in designing journeys that reduce environmental impact.
Wayfarer: an outsider's way into geography and place
Join adventurer, multi-award-winning travel writer and 2025 Ness Award recipient, Phoebe Smith, for a lecture exploring how nature and place can offer a pathway to salvation.
The very worst journey in the world
In this Be Inspired talk, Hugh Turner revisits the challenges and terrors of 'The very worst journey in the world'.
Mapping habitat change with Living England
Join Natural England who will provide an overview of how the ‘Living England’ habitat mapping project harnesses the use of Earth observation data, artificial intelligence (AI) and extensive field data collection.
Lone wolf: walking the faultlines of Europe
In 2011, a wolf walked 1,000 miles from Slovenia to Italy, ultimately recolonising the Alps. A decade later, Adam Weymouth walked his path, exploring the wolf's resurgence in a divided Europe.
Mapping migration: people, policy and place
Our expert panelists will discuss human mobility, border dynamics, urban pressures, and how geography informs policies for population movement.
Is agriculture the greatest threat to biodiversity?
Half of the world’s habitable land is now farmed, yet we must produce ever more food. Can we bend the curve of agricultural expansion, before it is too late?
What do geographers actually do? - Spring 2026
This free event aims to support students, teachers and parents to understand what careers are available for those that choose to study geography.
The material geography of AI
Every ChatGPT conversation has a physical footprint somewhere. This lecture will challenge the widespread misapprehension that digital technology is, somehow, weightless and immaterial.
Transgender experience and the question of space
Dr Eden Kinkaid explores transgender experiences of space. This event is part of the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) online seminar series.
Three rivers: 10 stories - Robert Winder
'Three Rivers' author Robert Winder explores the ways in which the Rhone, the Rhine and the Po have shaped the entire history and civilisation of Europe.
A sailing voyage from Greece to the Algarve
In 2022 Spirit of Gaia, a Wharram 63ft sailing double canoe with Hanneke Wharram Boone as captain, started a voyage to Portugal. This talk recounts some exciting sailing as well as moments of danger when Gaia was caught in a storm at anchor and surrounded by breaking surf.