We will be celebrating Jo Bullard's life on Thursday 4th December, from 2.30pm at Loughborough University.

Please register here if you would like to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

The @rgsibg.bsky.social have published an obituary of Jo:
www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

🎥 Some of our geography PhD students are involved with the Loughborough group of @starnational.bsky.social and have organised a film screening and discussion of ‘Thank You For The Rain’ on Friday, 21/11 to commemorate Climate and Migrant Justice Day.

Register here: forms.office.com/e/RRq1zSuigc...

Incredibly sad news from our Geography community at Loughborough www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

New paper: Infrastructures of Highly Skilled Family Migration: Political Economy of the Family in Migration

The paper examines the brokerage of time insecurity and transience through visas and international schools for skilled migrant families in Singapore

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Quite a different week this week, leading the first iteration of @lborogeog virtual fieldcourse visiting China, Germany, Finland, Uganda and South Africa! Thanks to everyone who contributed in #teamlboro and #teamglobal

A beautiful day at @lborouniversity.bsky.social for the first day of our Geographies of Education Virtual Fieldcourse! All those days in New York and in the UK when I prayed to wake up to nice weather and the one day I don't need it 😎🌞Today it's VR to visit to Hunan and Kassel Universities

Call for papers for the #RGSIBG25 conference! Do you think about time/temporality/timescapes in your research? We are looking for papers that engage broadly with these themes

See link below for more details. Deadline 26th Feb

New Collaborative Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP PhD opportunity based at Loughborough University in partnership w/ Ygam and University of Birmingham "Digital Gaming/Gambling Harms and Students: Financial Literacy and the Transition to Adulthood" - closes 21/02/25: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN128/p...

Closing Date this Friday 17th January 2025... #geosky #academicsky #PhD #gaming #gambling

📢New Issue alert!📢

December's Issue of The GJ is out now and available to read, with 9 of the 15 papers open access.

The GJ publishes work relating to 'public geographies' - get in touch with your ideas and submissions!

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959... #geo #geosky

New item in lborogeog cabinet of curiosities alongside fabulous 1st year student map. Represents our current research project exploring place belonging among new arrivals to Loughborough / first-year teaching of @allanwatson1.bsky.social looking at sense of place

www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...

Hello. 🍄

I wonder if anyone knows of academics working on international or regional student mobility schemes (supporting short-duration mobility) outside of Europe? (For example, supporting intra-Asian mobilities).

Thank you. 🍂

New OA paper in The GJ:

'Producing international students: Migration management and the making of population categories' by @sophiecranston.bsky.social & James Esson

This paper considers how UK migration policies 'produce' the international student as a population category

doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

PhD Advert: “Migrant and Refugee Communities: Digital Resilience and Skills for Citizenship” with myself and Dr Michelle Richey
tinyurl.com/na7p4whe #geosky #geography #migration #refugees

Come join me and my fab colleagues at Lboro Geography as a Lecturer in Human Geography! Applications welcome from any relevant specialism that can demonstrate how you will interact with, build on and develop agenda-setting geographical research and impact #geosky

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDD737/l...