Academic news and updates

We are delighted to be a partner of the Stay home stories research project which aims to understand how ideas and experiences of home have changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Society has recently responded to several government and sector consultations, advocating for the ways in which geographical skills, knowledge and understanding underpins good decision-making and improves understanding of the world around us.

Katy Simms, from Durham University, was the recipient of the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group 2020 undergraduate dissertation prize with her dissertation which looks at the effects of mobile dating apps on love, intimacy and identity negotiations for bisexual individuals.

A new report exploring the career destinations of graduates highlights the increasingly vital need for geographers in the graduate job market.

The Society has launched a new webinar series to help geography students explore future career options.

Following on from a successful virtual writing retreat earlier this year, the Society’s Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group have established an ongoing virtual writing community.

Join our Author meets critics session with author of Home SOS, Professor Katherine Brickell of Royal Holloway, University of London.

We are delighted to be partnering with the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) on their virtual conference, which is taking place online this week.

We are delighted to announce applications for our Wiley Digital Archive Research Fellowships are open.

Join our Postgraduate Forum as they hold their first Twitter conference from Tuesday 25 to Thursday 27 August.

WIREs Climate Change, a Wiley journal published in association with the Society and the Royal Meteorological Society, is celebrating 10 years of publishing.

Geography Directions, the Society’s blog linked to our scholarly journals, is calling for contributions that bring a geographical lens to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, as well as pieces that consider the future, and the world, after the pandemic.

Following on from a discussion forum that explored the challenge of financing net zero, the Society has published a briefing report summarising the actions required to meet the scale and pace of change needed to reach a net zero economy.

The Society, the RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum (PGF), and the PGF Midterm Organisation Committee are working together to explore how we can provide digital spaces on the PGF website that give postgraduates the opportunity to engage with other researchers both within and across the discipline.

We caught up with three of the editors for our journal Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

The Society is expanding its university programme accreditation scheme this autumn to include UK geography Master’s programmes.

Our next Annual International Conference will be held at the Society in London from Tuesday 1 to Friday 4 September 2020, and the call for sessions, papers and posters is now open.

The latest issues of the Society’s journals are now available online.

We are delighted to have received funding for the third round of the Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme.

New research, published today in our journal, The Geographical Journal, reveals that children enjoy Forest School activities but can struggle to frame the skills and knowledge they develop in these more informal settings as educational.

New research, published today in our journal The Geographical Journal, reveals the daily disruption homeless families living in temporary hotel accommodation experience.

The provisional programme for this year’s Annual International Conference is now live.

This year's Research Group dissertation awards and prizes are now open.

Two members of the Society’s field research programme, Migrants on the margins, presented at the Mobilising Global Voices 2019 conference held at the Houses of Parliament earlier this month.

On Shifting Foundations: state rescaling, policy experimentation and path-dependency in post-1949 China, by Dr Kean Fan Lim, is the newest addition to the RGS-IBG book series.

Our £10,000 Walters Kundert Fellowship enabled Dr Arwyn Edwards to make multiple trips to Svalbard to ask the question: are microbes active in Arctic winters?

UCAS is now open for applications for courses starting in 2019, but with over 80 UK universities offering more than 1,400 geography-related courses it can seem a little daunting knowing where to start and how to choose.

The final day of our Annual International Conference in Cardiff has arrived. We’ve put together some of our highlights from the programme today.

Members of the Society’s Energy Geographies Research Group, have published Energy and Society: a Critical Perspective.

The Society is delighted to announce a new grant for post-doctoral development research.