Facebook- For Sam, Harriet, Rachel, Jennie, Emily, Callum, Natasha and Eleanor .. 17 May 2013
- Global youth unemployment is a topic for Human Geography Prelims; this survey by... 15 May 2013
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- Congratulations to James on passing his PhD viva! 1 May 2013
- Something for SPS revision 30 April 2013
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- Eco-House Not ‘At Home’: The Crisis of Post-political Spatial Planning 6 May 2013 Jen Turner
- Multicultural Encounters at School 1 May 2013 catherinewaite
- The Geography of Thatcherism: 1979-1983 27 April 2013 Benjamin Sacks
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Category Archives: Geographical research
The Geography Curriculum and Climate Change – Political Pedagogy?
This month the UK Government published its latest draft guidelines for school curricula applicable to children under the age of 14, and they made particularly interesting reading for geographers. To the outrage of some, climate change will be axed entirely … Continue reading
GMT, MFIs, and other lessons from Africa
During the summer, between second and third year, Keble Geographers spend at least six weeks working on their own research projects towards the dissertation component of FHS. For some students, this involves fieldwork abroad. Callum White chose to travel to … Continue reading
Posted in Dissertation, General, Geographical research, Student research
Tagged Ghana, Microfinance, Obruni
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Space, Place and Society: the campaign to keep the Cowley car plant open
Back in the late 1980s, a small group of Oxford academics, including geographers, got involved in a campaign to keep the Cowley plant open. It didn’t quite work out as planned, and there were some string divisions within the group. … Continue reading
Posted in Geographical research, Keble Geography, Oxford, SPS
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Happy City: Further Thoughts
There has been and will continue to be much discussion about the economic impact of hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games. This is understandable. If you host the most expensive games in history in the midst of a recession which … Continue reading
Posted in Geographical research, Human Geography, Keble Geography
Tagged geography, Happiness, Olympics, Paralympics
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Stepford or Stratford? The Happy City of the Olympic Park
I went to the Olympic Park a couple of times this summer. Like most people it seems, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The organizers, designers and architects have contrived to create a happy city, at least for a while. Everybody … Continue reading
Posted in Geographical research, Human Geography, Keble Geography
Tagged geography, Olympic park
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Coastlands between the arts and the sciences
The idea of interdisciplinarity repeatedly crops up in your geography course, most often with reference to climate change or environmental change more generally. Although this is often approached in terms of the relations between human and physical geography, translated as … Continue reading
Second Year Berlin Fieldtrip: Sam Swift and Callum White
In March of this year, half of our geographical cohort undertook human fieldwork in Berlin. Both of our trips where generously funded by the Keble Association, and we spent a week researching a topic of our choice in the German … Continue reading
Second Year Field Trip to the Canary Islands – Briefing and photographs from second year Scholar Rachel Armstrong
At the end of March, four Keble 2nd years went on the Physical and Environmental Geography fieldtrip to Tenerife. We spent a week on the North side of the island, in a nice hotel, exploring different parts of the island, … Continue reading
Organised Science
This week I spent four days in Vienna at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly. Although I attend about a dozen research meetings a year, this was the first big meeting I’ve been to for several years having been … Continue reading
New books in the Library
The librarian has acquired a clutch of new books for geographers, many of which may be helpful for revision. There’s a couple by Danny Dorling, a human geographer at the University of Sheffield. He’s one of the most productive academics … Continue reading
Revising for Finals II
One of the most awkward questions I get asked is ‘what is geography?’ I am generally reluctant to respond, in large part because I am not sure it’s productive or wise to think of such a ‘thing’ as geography. I … Continue reading
Posted in Geographical research, Keble Geography, PNPG
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Global surface temperature trend revisited
Posted on December 2, 2011 by Richard Most text books which claim to describe how science works will tell you that reproducibility is a cornerstone of the practice. In reality, much of the progress of science is made by referring to … Continue reading
Situating Visual Geography
Posted on December 2, 2011 by Fiona Visual images – moving and still – are integral to Geography as ways of viewing, knowing and telling about the world. The development of photography, in the 17th century, accompanied artwork as a … Continue reading
Climategate II? – ‘damp squib?’, or new fodder to support the idea that ‘global warming…the greatest delusion in history?’
Posted on November 29, 2011 by Abi (more leaked emails…) Well, it seems to depend on exactly who you choose to read, and side with, (and which day you open the newspapers, or start reading the blogs). The two parts … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Dynamics, Geographical research
Tagged Climate change, ClimategateII, IPCC, media, Scientific bias
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Expertise and Interdisciplinarity
Posted on November 23, 2011 by Fiona Following Ali’s last post, the notion of expertise is also relevant to the second years’ Geographical Research tutorial, this week, on interdisciplinarity. Evans and Marvin (2006) argue, in one of the recommended readings, … Continue reading