Professional news and updates

Congratulations to the newest members of our Council, elected at our Annual General Meeting yesterday.

To mark Volunteers’ Week, Professor Joe Smith, the Society’s Director, has written an open letter of thanks to all the volunteers who contribute to our regional committees.

Our Professional team will be at several high-profile geographical events this May.

This spring, Society Fellow, reporter and presenter, Tom Heap, is extending the UK tour of his talk exploring 39 ideas that could address climate change.

With the deadline for several of the Society’s grants, including the Postgraduate Research Awards and grants for senior researchers, only a couple of weeks away, now is the perfect time to ensure you have the strongest possible application.

With one month to go until our Annual International Conference, we caught up with this year’s Chair of conference, Professor Uma Kothari, to discuss this year’s theme, her advice for those attending and what she’s most looking forward to about this year’s event.

The annual undergraduate dissertation prizes, awarded by many of our Research Groups to recognise outstanding student research, are now open for submissions.

The Society and the Financial Times are pleased to announce the launch of our joint School Essay Competition for 2021.

We are delighted to be working in partnership with BBC Radio 4 on a new radio series, 39 Ways to Save the Planet, which showcases 39 ideas to relieve the stress that climate change is placing on the Earth.

This festive season, we asked Society Director, Professor Joe Smith, about what books he’ll be reading over the winter break.

Jonk has won the 2020 Earth Photo competition for his stunning series Coffee Shop, Abkhazia; Hotel, Portugal; Swimming Pool, Italy and Theater, Abkhazia, which depict abandoned spaces reclaimed by nature.

The latest addition to the RGS-IBG book series, Home SOS: Gender, Violence, and Survival in Crisis Ordinary Cambodia, is now available to order online.

To mark Earth Day, we’re making our recent Monday night lecture by Dr Tamsin Edwards ‘What fate for Antarctica’ free to view for one week until Wednesday 29 April.

The Society has launched Professional Practice Groups, a new framework of support for professional geographers which brings together those with an interest and expertise in a thematic or sectoral area of professional geographical practice.

The Framework of Competencies, which sets out the range of professional expertise and other characteristics required for achieving and maintaining Chartered Geographer status, has been refreshed.

Our new membership card for 2020 is now available, with some interesting changes. 

To mark GIS day, we’re sharing the career profiles of geographers from a wide range of sectors who use GIS in their day-to-day role.

The Society’s Immediate Past President, Nicholas Crane, is giving the 55th Annual Tyneside Geographical Society Lecture in Newcastle at the end of the month.

Brexit! The Urban and Regional Implications is a free workshop which will discuss the potential economic consequences of Brexit for both regions and cities across the UK.

This month’s issue of Sidetracked magazine features a foreword from Society Director Professor Joe Smith.

Our membership card for 2019 is now available.

This weekend marks the end of National Tree Week, the UK’s largest annual tree celebration. To join in the celebrations, the Discovering Britain team has put together a collection of their favourite walks, trails and viewpoints in forests and woodlands throughout the country.

Give them the perfect gift this year: Society membership.

2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Society’s academic journal Area.

New co-editors are being sought for three of the Society’s journals: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Area, and Geo: Geography and Environment.

A shortlist of 50 exceptional photographs and films that document the earth in all its diversity has been chosen for the Society’s inaugural Earth Photo exhibition.

The Slawson Awards are part of the Society’s grants programme, which provides a wide range of funding opportunities for geographical fieldwork, data collection and independent travel.

Worldmapper have put together a series of maps highlighting the global distribution of refugees and internally displaced persons.

The Society is delighted to announce the signing of an agreement with the Geographical Society of China

An international review of physical geography in the UK has declared the discipline’s health and global influence to be excellent.