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AHRC Midlands3Cities funding for UK/EU students

The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C DTP) is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, De Montfort University, University of Leicester, Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham. M3C is awarding up to 87 PhD Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships for UK/EU applicants for 2017 entry. M3C provides research candidates with expert supervision (including opportunities for cross-institutional supervision), research training and access to a wide range of facilities, cohort events and placement opportunities with regional, national and international partners in the creative and cultural sectors.

The School of Geography at the University of Nottingham (see here) invites applications from students whose research interests include:

  • Environmental humanities and landscape studies
  • Animal geographies
  • Cultural economy
  • Geographies of empire, militarism and internationalism
  • Epidemic spaces and cultural-historical geographies of health
  • Heritage sites and legacies of enslavement and colonialism
  • Histories of geographical and environmental thought

For more information please follow the following links for the cultural and historical geography research theme.

The deadline for M3C funding applications is 16 January 2017, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have ensured that two academic references are submitted to the home university on the correct M3C form.

For full details of eligibility, funding, proposal-writing workshops and research supervision areas (including use of the supervision search tool) please visit www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk

Please contact Dr Adam Algar at Adam.Algar@nottingham.ac.uk if you have any questions related to doctoral study in geography at the University of Nottingham.

Cambridge Film Festival Microcinema programme

microcinema

In the next moth, the Alchemical Landscape Project are hosting several events at Cambridge University.

Yvonne Salmon who is co-hosting the experimental/microcinema strand of the Cambridge Film Festival with James Mackay who will speak on 18th October regarding the work of producer Derek Jarman. Click here for more information.

Yvonne will also be performing at an experimental lecture event at the Festival of Ideas, click here for more information.

On the 24th October there will be a gallery exhibition of Steve Farrer’s work at the Heong Gallery at Downing College which also references the 50th anniversary of the London Film-makers Coop.

Click on the image above to view the programme.

The winners of the 2016 Dissertation Prize are…

After many deliberations, we are pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Dissertation Prize. They are:

Runner-up

Megan O’Kane, Queens University Belfast

“Geographies of Suicide and the Representation of Self-Sacrifice in Japanese Popular Culture and Media”

Winner

Imogen Fox, University of Brighton

“Meltdowns in the mud: A spatial, emotional and relational approach to the experience of ‘care’ in the micro-spatialities of Glastonbury Festival”

The winner receives £100 for the best Undergraduate dissertation while the runner-up and winner both receive a year’s personal subscription to the journal Social and Cultural Geography, published by Taylor & Francis.

Congratulations to both our winners!

Event: The Alchemical Landscape, Symposium II – 7th July

THE ALCHEMICAL LANDSCAPE,  SYMPOSIUM II:

Screen Media, Occulture and the Geographic Turn

Girton College, University of Cambridge

7th July 2016.

An interdisciplinary symposium presented by the Cambridge University Counterculture Research Group

Following the success of our first symposium in March 2015, we are pleased to announce The Alchemical Landscape II. This second event will focus on occultural visions of the landscape across film, television, video and associated media.

We will be presenting a programme featuring a wide range of excellent speakers: academics, writers, artists and film-makers. We will also be welcoming Jo Melvin (Chelsea College of Art) and Marc Atkins & Rod Mengham (Sounding Pole Films) to deliver keynote addresses.

Do join us for what promises to be a fascinating day of talks and discussion.

Tickets are £39 and include entry to all the talks, lunch and refreshments during the day.

Full details relating to ticket purchase and venue as well as a draft programme can be found on the website:

http://thealchemicallandscape.blogspot.co.uk/

Any questions, please e-mail: thealchemicallandscape@gmail.com

Conveners

Yvonne Salmon FRSA FRGS FRAI
Lecturer (Affiliated), University of Cambridge

James Riley FRSA
Fellow of English, Girton College, University of Cambridge

Engaging in Qualitative Methods Postgraduate Workshop: Friday 22nd April at the RGS in London

The Social and Cultural Geography research group, GFGRG and GLTRG research groups are sponsoring a session at the Royal Geographical Society on Friday 22nd April 10am – 4.30pm. The session is titled ‘Engaging in Qualitative Methods Postgraduate Workshop’ which will be held at the RGS building in Central London, SW7 2AR.

Need some help working out your methodology? Want to learn more about the Royal Geographical Society and it’s research groups? Or just want to meet some other doctoral students and chat through your ideas? This workshop is designed to help those students at the beginning of their PhD or MA journeys to think critically about their methods and methodology and offer a space to meet and chat with other students in an informal atmosphere in the beautiful RGS building in central London.

Sessions:

  • Introduction to methodology & methods
  • Key Note Speaker – Dr Erin Sanders-McDonagh, Middlesex University. Erin is committed to research that has an impact and she has experience using a multitude of methods in extremely diverse contexts.
  • Innovative research methods & methodologies; visual, participatory, feminist approaches. This will be run as an active participatory session, encouraging students in thinking about the methods that they might use, but also to innovate and make them effective for the often unique situations encountered in ‘real life’ research.
  • Be Critical!- Round table exercise designed to get participants to be critical of the research methods that they use and the implications they have on themselves and their participants. When Methods Go Wrong – a session to explore flexibility, lone research safety and to pull from the organisers own experiences to share “lessons learnt”.

Travel Grants Available. Contact Eve at ab7996@coventry.ac.uk for more information.

You can find out more information about tickets by clicking here.

 

Carto-Cymru: The Wales Map Symposium 27th May 2016

Carto Cymru 2016

Carto-Cymru

The Wales Map Symposium 2016

“Shaping the Nation”

27th May 2016

10.00am – 4.30pm

An event hosted by the National Library of Wales in association with the

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

 

Theme:

 

Shaping the Nation – the role of maps in both depicting and creating the nation both as an entity on the ground and also as a perception in the minds of people.

 

Presentations:

 

Mapping the Marches: Marginal Places and Spaces of Cartographic Innovation

Keith Lilley, Professor of Historical Geography, Queen’s University Belfast

 

Shapes of Scotland: Maps, history and national identity

Chris Fleet, Map Curator, National Library of Scotland

 

The Military Map Collection of George III: a cartographic record of European wars, empires won and empires lost

Yolande Hodson, Map historian; cataloguer of King George III’s Military Maps in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle

 

Ail-ddychmygu daearyddiaethau’r iaith Gymraeg/Re-imagining geographies of Welshness

Rhys Jones, Head of Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University

 

Humphrey Llwyd and the map of Wales

Huw Thomas, Map Curator, National Library of Wales

 

Maps and mapping at the Royal Commission; putting the past in its place

Tom Pert, On-line Development Manager, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

 

Tickets available for free, morning and afternoon refreshments provided.

For tickets phone: 01970 632 548 or visit: www.llgc.org.uk/drwm

Dissertation Prize Awards 2015

The Social and Cultural Geography research group committee are happy to announce the winners and runners-up of their 2015 Dissertation Prize Awards (you can read their dissertations by clicking on their respective titles). They are:

Winner: Emma-Mai Eshelby (Leicester). “Gown and town: the unfolding presence of studentification in Clarendon Park, Leicester”

Runner-up: Grace Burchell (Nottingham) “Breeding Frankenstein’s Bulldog: reimagining the Pedigree in Nineteenth Century England”

Runner-up: Amelia Davy (Oxford) “Temporal worldings: an exploration of how time was implicated in the experiences of American Soldiers during the Vietnam War”

We decided to have two runners-up this year, due to the high standard of entries.

The winner receives £100 and both winner and runners-up will receive a one year personal subscription to the Taylor and Francis published journal Social and Cultural Geography. You can find out more information about the annual Dissertation Prize by clicking here.