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Research NewsProfessor Mike Heffernan Mike Heffernan has been awarded a John S. Best Fellowship from the American Geographical Society (AGS) to spend part of this summer at the AGS Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for a project entitled 'Geography and the Global Imagination 1885-1914'. [15/01/10] Dr Adam Swain Adam Swain has been appointed an editor of the ‘European Urban and Regional Studies’ journal published by SAGE. For more information on the journal see: http://eur.sagepub.com/. [12/01/10] Economic Geography Dr Vlad Mykhnenko, Kean Birch (Strathclyde), and Danny MacKinnon (Glasgow) have been awarded a Regional Studies Association grant (£3000) to run a Research Network on Varieties of Neoliberalism and Alternative Regional and Urban Strategies over 2010-2011. [08/01/10] Dr Vlad Mykhnenko Vlad Mykhnenko will be presenting a lecture on ‘East European Cities – Patterns of Growth and Decline’ at Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd, Cambridge on Wednesday, 20th January 2010. The talk will coincide with Vlad’s election as a Management Committee Substitute Member (UK) of the COST - Transport and Urban Development Action (TU0803) on ‘Cities Regrowing Smaller – Fostering Knowledge on Regeneration Strategies in Shrinking Cities across Europe’ (end date September 2013). For more information, see: http://www.cost.esf.org/about_cost. [Flyer] [08/01/10] Professor Colin Thorne Colin Thorne, Professor of Physical Geography, has a guidebook of applied fluvial geomorphology forthcoming next month. The guidebook stems from a project lead by the University of Nottingham to synthesise current best practice in the UK with respect to the application of fluvial geomorphology in river engineering, management and restoration. It deals with the principles of fluvial geomorphology in a manner accessible to known specialists and uses examples and case studies to illustrate the use of those principles in a variety of river-related contexts including flood risk management, operations delivery, conservation, fisheries, recreation, and navigation. More details are available here. [26/11/09] Economic Geography Sarah Hall, Jon Beaverstock and Tom Wainwright presented an invited paper on 'Learnings from the interface between Wholesale and Retail Markets', at the Financial Services Research Forum Autumn meeting to an audience of over 50 leading UK financial institutions and stakeholders at the Central Hall, Westminster, London, on 17 November 2009. [18/11/2009] PD Dr Marion Potschin Dr Marion Potschin (PI) has been awarded £146,930 from Defra to work alongside CEM members Prof. Roy Haines-Young and The School of Geography Special Professor/CEM Associated Researcher Dr Paul Weaver on "Embedding an Ecosystems Approach in Decision Making: Measuring the Added Value (EMBED)" over the next 21 months. [11/11/2009] Dr Stephen Legg Dr Stephen Legg has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize of £70,000. Philip Leverhulme Prizes are awarded to outstanding scholars or practitioners (normally under the age of 36) who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study, recognised at an international level, and whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise. [22/10/2009] Professor Charles Watkins Professor Charles Watkins is the keynote speaker at the Scottish Woodland History Conference at Birnam, Perth on 27 October 2009. [22/10/2009] Professor Louise Crewe Louise Crewe, Professor of Human Geography is a keynote speaker on 'Fashion and the Internet' on 22 October 2009 at The Retail Institute of Scandinavia in Copenhagen. [20/10/09] Dr Paul Aplin Dr Paul Aplin (PI) has been awarded £99,922 from NERC to create a Technology Cluster in Earth Observation. This knowledge transfer project will build an international consortium to facilitate understanding, development and uptake of state-of-the-art technology used in EO of the land surface. [16/10/09] Environmental Management Agatha Sangma, a 2006 graduate of the MA Environmental Management course has been recently appointed to the Indian government and is also its youngest member. More details are available at http://www.alumni.nottingham.ac.uk/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1206. [05/10/09] Professor Paul Nathanail Paul Nathanail, Professor in Engineering Geology is a keynote speaker at The William Smith Meeting on Environment, Pollution and Health at the Geological Society, 21-23 September 2009. The conference aims to bring together “traditional” geoscientists (geochemists, hydrogeologists, engineers, geophysicists, mineralogists) and scientists outside traditional earth sciences (toxicologists, microbiologists, physicists, chemists) from both academic and industrial communities to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in the understanding of environmental pollution and the potential threats to human health. More details are available at Flyer and Professor Nathanail's keynote speech synopsis. [21/09/09] Creating a new prosperity: Fresh approaches to ecosystem services and human well-being A part of the ESRC/NERC funded transdisciplinary seminar series – FRESH – led by CEM/Nottingham and ORMI/University of Exeter, this one-day symposium will bring together leading scientists and policy makers to take stock of current research into the management of ecosystem services for human well-being. Recent years have witnessed sustained interest in the idea of 'ecosystem services' and 'ecosystem based approaches' to natural resource management. This event will present a critical and reflective view of progress to date on current approaches for ecosystem service studies and take a look forward at place in emerging research and policy agendas. Attendance at the event is welcomed for all researchers and practitioners wishing to better understand the challenges of managing ecosystem services for a new era of environmental and social prosperity. More details are available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/fresh/seminarsix.html and Programme. [24/08/09] Environmental Management Sheridan Chilvers, a current student on the School of Geography’s MSc Environmental Management course, has been involved in an innovative food project run by the British Council, where he met with Prince Charles and Lord Kinnock as part of the British Council’s 75th Anniversary. ‘Challenge Europe - low carbon future' was created by the Council in recognition that climate change poses a huge risk to cultural diversity. Involving 15 European countries and 230 Climate Advocates, it aims to identify young individuals across the world who are working to create awareness about the dangers of climate change and who are promoting sustainable action. Sheridan was one of ten individuals selected to represent England, which later merged with Scotland and Wales to form Team GB. Each team was tasked with developing three sustainable projects which could then be promoted to business leaders, local authorities and the general public. Sheridan has been working on a grow-your-own project for University of Nottingham students called Food for Thought. The project aims to encourage students to utilise their gardens to produce food for themselves and the local community. More details are available at: http://challengeeurope.britishcouncil.org/index.php/the-advocates/78-england and British Council 75th Anniversary. [24/08/09] Dr Suzanne McGowan Suzanne McGowan, John Anderson (PI, Loughborough University), Viv Jones (UCL) and Jan Kaiser (UEA) have been awarded a NERC standard grant of £473,755 to investigate long-range atmospheric nitrogen deposition as a driver of ecological change in arctic lakes of southwest Greenland. Suzanne McGowan has received the Freshwater Biological Association's Hugh Cary Gilson Award for 2009 to investigate chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments in Windermere sediments and their correlation with long-term (>60-year) phytoplankton monitoring datasets in the north and south basin. [17/08/09] Dr Georgina Endfield Dr Georgina Endfield, David Nash (PI) (Brighton) and Dominic Kniveton (Sussex) have been awarded £193,063 from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate the socio-economic consequences of, and human responses to, climatic extremes associated with historical Pacific El Niño events in southern Africa during the 19th century. The research involves archive work in Norway, the USA, Madagascar, South Africa, Malawi and the UK. [17/07/09] Environmental Management Read about a current Environmental Management student who is spear-heading a local initiative which encourages students to grow their own food. http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Students-help-grow-food-community/article-980583-detail/article.html [18/06/2009] Dr Susanne Seymour Dr Susanne Seymour (Geography) and Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty (History), both members of the University’s Institute for the Study of Slavery (ISOS), have recently been awarded a grant of £9,782 from English Heritage to investigate the slavery connections of two English Heritage properties, Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire and Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire. The project runs from December 2008 to September 2009 and Susanne and Sheryllynne will present key findings from the research at a one day conference in London on Slavery and the British Country House: Mapping Current Research on Saturday 21st November 2009. This is a follow-up event from the 2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and is sponsored by English Heritage, the National Trust, the University of the West of England and the Economic History Society. Both the research and the conference aim to increase wider public understanding of the connections between landed elites and their country estates, slavery and the slave trade. Poster [18/06/2009] Dr Briony McDonagh Dr Briony McDonagh has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for her project ‘Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700-1830’. The project will investigate the role played by elite women in managing large agricultural estates, whether as wives, widows or single women. Female landowners controlled significant amounts of property, yet their contribution to the agricultural changes which transformed the English landscape between 1700 and 1830 has been almost entirely overlooked. Drawing on archival materials from three English regions, the project will examine female landowners’ involvement in estate management, enclosure, landscaping and agricultural improvement. In doing so, it will explore important questions about propertied women’s role in Georgian society, as well as contribute to wider cultural debates about women's place in the environmental, social and economic history of Britain. Briony is currently a Research Fellow on the AHRC-sponsored ‘Changing Landscapes, Changing Environments’ project based at the Universities of Sussex and Hertfordshire (www.landscapeandenclosure.com). She plans to return to the School of Geography (where she completed her PhD in 2007) early in 2010. [12/06/2009] Claire Chambers The School is pleased to announce that Claire Chambers had been successful in attracting a Lord Dearing award in 2009. This prestigious award recognises excellence in Teaching and Learning and represents an ongoing commitment by the School and staff to the excellent quality of teaching. Claire has been given the award for her extensive work in innovative practice. [04/06/2009] Jeremy Morley appointed as Deputy Director at the Centre for Geospatial Science, The University of Nottingham Jeremy Morley from University College, London (UCL), has been appointed as Deputy Director of the Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS) at The University of Nottingham. He takes up the post in September. Jeremy was programme director of UCL's MSc in GIS from 1998-2004 and of its BEng/MEng in Geoinformatics from 2005-9. Over the last 15 years his research has focussed on the mapping of Mars in support of geological analysis; terrain mapping from LiDAR and InSAR; GIS interoperability and mashup WebGIS systems. He has been UCL's technical representative to the Open Geospatial Consortium since 2004. Jeremy is currently the academic organiser for the AGI’s “GeoCommunity” 2009 Annual Conference and Conference Chair for GISRUK 2010. [More information] [28/05/2009] "We all live in a Robbie Fowler house": the geographies of the buy to let market in the UK Professor Andrew Leyshon features in the latest University of Nottingham podcast, talking about research undertaken with colleague Dr Shaun French for the Financial Services Research Forum on the UK buy to let market. Their research on this subject will shortly be published as an end of award report for the Forum and as a paper in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations in the summer of 2009. The podcast can be accessed on the University of Nottingham's Communications web site: http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/News/Article/We-all-live-in-a-Robbie-Fowler-House.html. [12/05/2009] Dr Alex Vasudevan Dr Alex Vasudevan will be presenting a public lecture at the Djanogly Art Gallery on May 13th to coincide with the latest show at the gallery at the University of Nottingham which opened on April 25th. The solo show focuses on the work of the Barcelona-born artist Joan Fontcuberta. The catalogue essay was also written by Alex Vasudevan and explores the significance of Fontcuberta’s work for recent photographic practice. More details can be found here: http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/Exhibitions/ViewEvent.html?e=1336&c=5&d=0. [28/04/2009] Dr Georgina Endfield Georgina Endfield has been awarded a grant from the Marc Fitch Fund to study 'Women's involvement in the lead mining industry of the Derwent Valley, Derbyshire, 17th-19th centuries'. [28/04/2009] RGS postgraduate prize 2009 Karen Lai has been awarded the 2009 RGS Economic Geography Research Group prize for best PhD in the sub-discipline. Her thesis, "Approaches to 'Markets': The Development of Shanghai as an International Financial Centre", was undertaken in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham, and supervised by Shaun French and Andrew Leyshon. In 2008, Karen was awarded a prestigious Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada. She is also currently appointed as a research fellow at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, on leave. [7/04/09] School of Geography wins Collaborative Awards in Science and Engineering (CASE) funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Andrew Leyshon, Professor of Economic Geography and Sarah Hall, Lecturer in Economic Geography in the School of Geography have been awarded a CASE project with the Commission for Rural Communities. These awards enable companies, charities and public organisations to jointly supervise PhD students on three-year research projects that are of direct benefit to their organisations and to the wider society. Professor Leyshon said: “This project will examine how mainstream and alternative networks develop and operate in response to the problems of financial exclusion in rural communities, given the long-term decline in bank and building society branches and the current uncertainty surrounding the future of the Post Office network. Although the UK is a world leader in developing financial exclusion policy, a good deal of it has to date been less than ‘joined-up’, with rural areas neglected in terms of research and policy. We will explore how a number of rural communities and households across the UK cope.” CASE awards provide PhD students with an annual tax-free maintenance grant in excess of £17,000 (including a ‘top-up’ from the project partner organisation), a contribution towards research training costs and payment of University tuition fees. University Press release. [26/3/09] Geography in Second Life The JISC funded research project DELVE (Design of E-learning spaces in Virtual Environments), a collaboration with the Open Unversity, has been featured in a University press release. [25/03/09] Invited presentation Professor Paul Nathanail delivered an invited presentation to the "Practical Applications of Medical Geology" conference hosted by the British Geological Survey on 19 & 20 March 2009. His lecture discussed the role of bioaccessibility estimates in human health risk assessment in the context of the forthcoming EC Soil Framework Directive. Dr Matt Ashmore presented a poster paper on his research into the fate and transport properties of mustard agent in soil. For further details and a copy of Dr Ashmore's poster or Professor Nathanail's presentation slides please contact Professor Nathanail: paul.nathanail@nottingham.ac.uk. [24/3/09] Presentation at the Financial Services Research Forum’s Spring seminar Shaun French and Andrew Leyshon will be presenting a paper on the UK’s Buy to Let market at the Financial Services Research Forum’s Spring meeting at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Tuesday 17th March 2009. The paper is entitled, '"We all live in a Robbie Fowler house": the buy to let market in retrospect and prospect’. The paper is based on research funded by the Forum over the past 12 months. [13/03/2009] where:now Where are you now? where:now is an exciting new project that can help you answer that question. It is funded by the University's knowledge transfer initiative and aims to bring together our experienced, world-class experts in these technologies with those that have assets or activities that would benefit from utilising their skills and resources. Gary Priestnall is the SPLINT lead on this exciting project. Any member of staff is welcome to join in and help form a core community of users and developers, all with a shared interest in physical location as an aspect of their work, be it teaching, research or other key University activities. The project will be holding its first networking workshop on Wednesday 18th March, 9.30am-2pm (includes free lunch). where:now welcomes all interested university practitioners, data curators and researchers to come and link up. Places are strictly limited so please register early! An online registration form can be found at the where:now website. www.nottingham.ac.uk/wherenow/ [9/03/2009] Professor Jon Beaverstock Professor Jon Beaverstock has received a prestigious International Research Initiative Scheme award from the University of Western Sydney to visit the Urban Research Centre in July and August 2009 to undertake research on the relational geographies of Sydney's financial centre in the Asian-Pacific region. Whilst at the Urban Research Centre, Jon will also deliver a number of lectures and seminars in the University's 2009 public engagement calendar and participate in the Centre's research capacity building activities. [19/02/2009] Professor David Matless David Matless appeared on BBC East's Inside Out programme, broadcast on BBC1 at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 18th February 2009, within an item on the life and work of Marietta Pallis, ecologist and artist and creator of the extraordinary 'Double-Headed Eagle Pool' in east Norfolk. The film, a ten minute feature in the middle of a half hour programme, includes archive footage, interviews in the field and aerial landscape shots of the pool, and is available for view on BBC iplayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hr67j/Inside_Out_East_18_02_2009 [19/02/2009] Professor Jon Beaverstock Jon Beaverstock was a keynote speaker and co-organiser of a two-day international workshop on 'New Ways of Thinking about Abu Dhabi as an Emerging Global City', taking place on 26th and 27th January 2009 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Qaryyat Al Beri, Abu Dhabi. The workshop was undertaken on behalf of the Abu Dhabi Council for Economic Development, with colleagues from Gent, Lancaster, Loughborough, Plymouth and Staffordshire universities, and the London School of Economics. During the two days, the workshop was attended by over 100 delegates from Abu Dhabi's central government agencies, including economic development, urban planning, environment, tourism, transport and public services, and representatives from a range of private industries, including strategists from the Masdar City initiative. [06/02/2009] Call for abstracts - Object-Based Landscape Analysis, two-day meeting of the RSPSoc Land Cover/Land Use SIG One page abstracts should be emailed to rspsoc@rspsoc.org by 9 February 2009 [Flyer] [RPSoc website] [3/2/2009] RSPSoc Annual Lecture and Conversazione The RSPSoc Annual Lecture and Conversazione will take place on Tuesday 7th April. Registration is not necessary for the Annual Lecture, but please confirm any requirement for transport between the Lecture and Conversazione venues. Budget accommodation in Nottingham can also be arranged, where requested. To register for the Conversazione, email (rspsoc@rspsoc.org) or phone (0115 9515435) the RSPSoc office 2009 by 9 March 2009. [Flyer] [RPSoc website] [3/2/2009] Geographical radio essays to be rebroadcast on Radio 3 There is another chance to hear The Naturalists, a five-part series of radio essays, delivered by the geographers David Matless (Nottingham) and Hayden Lorimer (Glasgow). Originally broadcast in October 2008, this series has returned to the BBC Radio 3 schedule. The Naturalists will be broadcast nightly, between Monday 26th and Friday 30th January. The first episode starts at 11.00pm on the 26th, and is presented by David Matless who considers Ted Ellis, a champion of the Norfolk Broads. He also presents the programmes on James Wentworth Day on Wednesday 28th, and Marietta Pallis on Friday 30th, both at 11.00pm. [23/01/2009] New research project on squatting in Berlin Alex Vasudevan has been awarded a research grant of nearly £6000 by the British Academy for a new project on the historical and political geography of squatting in Berlin. Entitled 'Dramaturgies of Dissent: Spatial Politics in Berlin', the project begins on March 1, 2009. Alex has recently published a special dossier in the prestigious journal Public Culture, which contains a selection of papers that reflect on 'Afflicted Powers: capital and spectacle in new age of war', which was produced by the Retort collective. The dossier was co-edited with Alex Jeffrey (Newcastle) and Colin McFarlane (Durham). [13/01/2009] Professor Steve Daniels The School of Geography is very pleased to announce that Steve Daniels, Professor of Cultural Geography, has been conferred with the status of Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. This well-deserved honour has been awarded in recognition of his contribution to the wider social science community. He is the second member of the School to have been recognised in this way; Andrew Leyshon, Professor of Economic Geography, was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2007. [12/01/2009] Nottingham University awarded £5m Doctoral Training Centre The University of Nottingham have been awarded a prestigious EPSRC Doctoral Training Award which will fund 50 PhD students in the area of location-aware ubiquitous computing over the next 5 years. The Director of the Centre of Geospatial Science, Professor Mike Jackson, is a Co-Investigator and will be on the Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) Management Committee as well as being a Research Theme leader. The DTC will take its first student intake in October 2009. For more information contact: mike.jackson@nottingham.ac.uk. www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs [12/01/2009] School of Geography part of a University of Nottingham consortium awarded £700,000 for investment in positioning and sensors infrastructure The School of Geography's Centre for Geospatial Science, the Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy and Computer Science has been awarded £700,000 over 3 years for investment in positioning and location-based technologies. Equipment to be procured ranges from GPS enabled mobile phones through WiFi, WiFiMax, Bluetooth, UWB, RFID equipment to wearable positioning and bio-sensors plus associated computers, software and data. For more information contact: mike.jackson@nottingham.ac.uk. www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs [12/01/2009] First Open Source GIS UK conference to be held at the University of Nottingham's Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS) Organized jointly by CGS, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (UK Chapter), the ICA Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies, SOSoRNET and the Open Knowledge Foundation, the First Open Source GIS UK Conference will be held on 22nd June, 2009 at the University of Nottingham. The conference has an international focus and holistic outlook bringing together speakers and delegates from government, academia, industry, software developers, open source communities and geospatial researchers. High profile speakers from USA, Canada and all across EU will be giving presentations and hands-on workshops for the conference. For more information contact: Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk and see http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk, www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs [12/01/2009] Ordnance Survey award 3-year contract to the Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS) for research on Future Technology and Data Management Research The Ordnance Survey award will enable researchers at the School of Geography's CGS to identify the likely challenges that future technological and market developments will have on Ordnance Survey products and delivery systems. In addition, it will provide insight into the nature of future data models that will maximise Ordnance Survey's ability to meet these challenges. Dr Suchith Anand has been appointed as the lead researcher. The contract runs from November 2008 to October 2011. For more information contact: Mike.Jackson@nottingham.ac.uk. www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs [12/01/2009] 2008 Research Assessment Exercise Outcome The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise confirmed the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham as one of the UK's leading centres for geographical research. With 60% of total research activity classified as internationally excellent or better and 95% internationally recognised, Nottingham is ranked 6th in the UK according to the Research Power index. [18/12/2008] The ESRC has awarded a research grant application Adam Swain submitted with Mick Dunford (Sussex) entitled "Economic inter-dependence and comparative regional dynamics in developed and developing economies: trade and regional trajectories in China and the EU". The ESRC's financial contribution is £258,727. [27/11/2008] Luke Studden, a student with the school in 2007-2008 who studied the MSc in GIS, has just won the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) Student of the Year Award for his dissertation entitled “Pedestrian Navigation Devices: Incorporating Egocentric Walking Preferences”. Congratulations Luke. [Announcement 27th November 2008] Mike Hulme, University of East Anglia "Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Wicked Problems, Clumsy Solutions and Cosmopolitan Myths" Public lecture 13th November 2008. Jon Beaverstock, along with Laura Empson (Cass Business School, City University), James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University), Daniel Muzio (Leeds Business School), David Sugarman (Lancaster University) and Jennifer Tomlinson (Leeds Business School), have been awarded an ESRC Research Seminar Series on the topic of, ‘Conceptualising the contemporary ‘professions’: interdisciplinary debates’. The Seminar Series will consist of four major events, with Nottingham University hosting the second event on the subject of, ‘Globalization and changing geographies of professional expertise’ in April 2009.[8/10/08] Jon Beaverstock and Sarah Hall have been awarded a research grant from the Financial Services Research Forum to investigate the, ‘Private Wealth Management of the High Net Worth Market in the U.K.’s financial services industry’ (£9,950). The project will run from 1st October 2008 to 31st March 2009.[8/10/08] Sarah Hall and Jon Beaverstock have been awarded a research grant from the Financial Services Research Forum to investigate the inter-linkages and interdependencies between the wholesale and retail financial sectors in the U.K. The project entitled, ‘The wholesale-retail finance interface: Identifying linkages, opportunities and threats for the U.K. financial sector’ (£8,690), will run for ten months, the 1st October 2008 to 31st July 2009. [8/10/08] The Naturalists is a five-part series of radio essays, delivered by two geographers, Professor David Matless and Dr Hayden Lorimer. The Naturalists will be broadcast nightly, 6th-10th October 2008 on BBC Radio 3.[More information] [6/10/2008]15 – 21 September 2008, High Level UK 'Foresight on Future Floods USA' mission to Washington DC led by Professor Colin Thorne. The event will be opened by Professor John Beddington (Chief Scientific Advisor to Her Majesty's Government) and Major General Don T. Riley (Chief of Civil Works, US Army Corps of Engineers). Nick Mount together with Daniel Weaver have been awarded a twelve month EMDA Innovation Fellowship for the development and commercialisation of the Geographically-Integrated Spatio-Temporal Self-Organising Map (GISTSOM) [19/8/2008] Mike Heffernan has been awarded a British Academy research grant for work to investigate American debates about the European cultural landscape during World War Two through the papers of the Roberts Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas. Mike Heffernan was awarded a McColl Research Fellowship from the American Geographical Society (AGS) for research on the AGS and the mapping of Hispanic America between the wars. This was also the topic of the 2008 'Maps in America' annual lecture which he delivered at the Society's Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Professor Colin Thorne, Special Professor Edward Evans and part-time postgraduate research student Jonathan Simm were each selected to join a panel of experts who advised the cabinet committee that investigated the causes of devastating floods that occurred in the United Kingdom last summer. This committee was headed by Sir Michael Pitt and has put forward recommendations for new mechanisms that might be put in place to seek to prevent or mitigate flooding in the future. The committee's interim report was issued in December 2007 [view], with the final report published 25th June 2008 [view] [BBC report] Project Title: ‘The buy-to-let market in transition? An analysis of the consequences for, and the robustness of, the buy-to-let market with respect to recent exogenous shocks’. Nick Mount (PI), Claire Chambers and Gary Priestnall have successfully secured a JISC Learning and Teaching Innovation Grant: Design of Learning Spaces in 3D Virtual Environments. £75,000 with Mathematics and Computing, OU. The project will run from 1st July 2008 - 30th June 2009 [JISC website] 11th June to 19th August 2008: Honduras Forest Research Programme expedition to Cusuco National Park, Honduras. Led by University of Nottingham (School of Geography) and Operation Wallacea, in collaboration with the Universities of Oxford and Bath (among others). ESF MedCLIVAR workshop - June 11-13 2008 - Pisa, Italy Oxygen isotopes as tracers of Mediterranean climate variability: linking past, present and future [website] During January 2008 Professor Colin Thorne and Professor Edward Evans (University of Nottingham), and Jonathan Simm (HR Wallingford) attended a series of workshops in Beijing and Shanghai to discuss the ranking of flood risk drivers and responses in the Taihu Basin (Work Package 1). The workshops were attended by journalists from China's Science and Technology Daily* and a comprehensive article on the project entitled 'How to Coexist with Floods: China-UK Joint Science and Technology Program of "Scenario Analysis Technology for River Basin Flood Risk Management in the Taihu Basin*" was published on 28th January 2008 which discusses the concepts behind the project, the specific problems facing the Taihu Basin and progress to date.[Foresight China web site] The School has been allocated two ESRC 1+3 Quota Studentships per annum for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 Carol Morris and Georgina Endfield have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a new project on "Amateur meteorology and the production of contemporary climate knowledge" [web page] ‘Taking Stock’ of Animals in the Social Sciences: A Geographical and Sociological Exchange was recently co-convened by Carol Morris on the 28th November 2007 [Programme] Neoliberalization, financialization and economic citizenship: one-day workshop, 10th October 2007, University of Nottingham [outline] EPSRC have funded a second phase of the FRMRC (Flood Risk Management Research Consortium), through the award of £7 million. Sarah Hall has been awarded an ESRC First Grant (£189k) for a research project entitled ‘Spaces of business education and the (re)production of financial theory in practice’. The School of Geography is currently advertising a Research Associate/Fellow vacancy to work on the project. Nick Mount has been announced as a winner of the prestigious Lord Dearing Awards for teaching and learning 2007 [more] This award recognises excellence and innovation in teaching and Nick's use of both podcast and sms technology in his teaching was the reason for the selection. Congratulations Nick! The School is please to announce the Leverhulme Visiting Professorship of W.J.T.
Mitchell, the first period of which takes place in June and July. Congratulations to Vera Karasova and Jim Nixon of CGS for winning best presentation prizes at GISRUK 2007 , Maynooth, Ireland. Well done. Professor Mike Steven has had an article entitled 'Keeping carbon locked up' published in the latest copy of Vision [read online] [project website] A book entitled 'Future flooding and coastal erosion risks' has recently been published, with Professor Colin Thorne as one of the editors. Literary Geographies: a multidisciplinary conference
Rutland Hall University of Nottingham, July 20-22, 2007 New U21 research initiative
A major new U21 research initiative, entitled 'Water futures for sustainable cities ' has been funded by the U21 group of universities. The objective of the award is to facilitate world-class and large-scale research into the varied aspects of water and sustainability in cities, spanning physical, environmental, social, and cultural aspects of life in urban areas. Woodland Cultures in Time and Space: tales from the past, messages for the future 2nd Call for papers Graduation 2006 - photos now online Adam Swain and Sarah O'Hara are members of a consortium that has been awarded a Centre of Excellence in Russian and East European Languages and Area Studies by the AHRC, ESRC, HEFCE and SFC. Michele Clarke has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship to work on climate change impacts on European coastal environments. The 16 month fellowship focuses on researching variations in the state and intensity of the North Atlantic Oscillation over the last 10,000 years and its impacts on coastal systems in Portugal and France. Adam Swain has been awarded a Nuffield Foundation research grant on "The regional development impacts of foreign direct investment in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine".
Summary of research Michele Clarke, Georgina Endfield and Alison Edgley (School of Nursing) have been awarded a British Academy research grant on "Climate histories of Cornwall: 1700-1950 This research seeks to use archival sources and oral testimonies to determine the
nature and scale natural climate variability associated with the state of the North
Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The work will investigate human responses to changes in
status of the NAO in Cornwall, 1700-1950 through the impacts of extreme winters on
agricultural, fishing and mining economies in communities occupying three Atlantic
coastal embayments. The research also aims to explore the impact of extreme climate
events on respondents sense of place and their local communities. The oral history
component of the project is being undertaken in collaboration with Mandy Morris of the
Cornish Audio Visual Archive (CAVA) Poor and ethnic minority areas bear the brunt of bank branch closures Britain’s poorest communities have been the hardest hit by thousands of bank and building society branch
closures, according to University of Nottingham research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. In collaboration with Joanna Robinson - Principal Investigator (School of English Studies) Gary Priestnall (co-investigator) has secured funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a research project entitled 'Mapping Performance Culture: Nottingham 1857-1867' This is a three year project, Geography being responsible for approximately 33%, and will commence in April 2006. The work will involve the creation of a web-based GIS interface for exploring the spatial and temporal patterns in the social and culture landscape of Nottingham, integrating archive material in digital form. [05/01/2006] The School has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Visiting Professorship to enable Professor WJT Mitchell (University of Chicago) to visit for 3 months. The professorship is part of the University's multi-disciplinary programme on Water, Culture and Society directed by Stephen Daniels (Geography) and Julie Sanders (English Studies). Tom Mitchell is an eminent authority on visual and verbal representation who has made a key contribution to the history and theory of landscape as a cultural formation; he is editor of Critical Inquiry and author of Landscape and Power (1994) , The Language of Images (1980) and The Last Dinosaur Book (1998) and is currently completing Media Aesthetics: Essays on the Medium as Habitat. He will make two 6 week visits, 15 June-30 July 2006 and 15 June-30 July 2007. Tom Mitchell will give 3 public lectures and participate in workshops an seminars involving staff and postgraduate students. He will be accompanied by his wife Janice Misurell Mitchell who is a leading composer and performer; it is planned that the School of Music and the Lakeside Arts Centre will host some of her activities. The timetable of the programme will be finalized in the New Year.
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