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

The Wales Map Symposium 2016

“Shaping the Nation”

27^th 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

SCGRG Annual Report 2015

You can view the 2015 annual report of the Social and Cultural Geography research group by clicking here. You can also find a list of our previous annual reports and minutes by clicking here, or by navigating our menus.

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.