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The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) is the research group of the RGS-IBG that brings together geographers and others interested in a wide variety of issues connected with relationships between space and power.
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Call for Papers Emerging voices in political geography RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, UK 1-4 September 2026 We would like to invite submissions for the panel ’emerging voices in political geography’ at the upcoming Royal Geographic Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) annual conference to be held in London, United Kingdom, between 1-4 September 2026. This panel…
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The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the RGS-IBG is pleased to extend an invitation to sponsor sessions at the next RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. The deadline for the submission of the session proposal is 17:00, 17th February 2026. This year’s conference will be chaired by Professor Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University, UK), on the theme of Geographies of inequalities: toward just places.…
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Outcome 2025 PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize The panel of the 2025 PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize (Alexander Manby, Anil, Sindhwani, Öznur Yardımcı, Semra Akay, Shawn Bodden) is delighted to announce the winning entry. The prize received entries from 15 UK universities (Aberystwyth, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Dundee, Durham, Exeter, King’s College London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Queen…
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The PolGRG Book Award (2025-2026) in coordination with Political Geography Journal The Political Geography Research Group Royal Geographic Society (PolGRG) Book Award was first established in September 2016, and officially launched in 2017, with sponsorship from the journal Political Geography. Since its launch, the five recipients of the award have been Reece Jones’ Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move (Verso, 2016), Sara Fregonese’s War and…
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The PolGRG Book Award (2025-2026) in coordination with Political Geography Journal The Political Geography Research Group Royal Geographic Society (PolGRG) Book Award was first established in September 2016, and officially launched in 2017, with sponsorship from the journal Political Geography. Since its launch, the five recipients of the award have been Reece Jones’ Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move (Verso, 2016), Sara Fregonese’s War…
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Outcome 2025 PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize The panel of the 2025 PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize (Alexander Manby, Anil, Sindhwani, Öznur Yardımcı, Semra Akay, Shawn Bodden) is delighted to announce the winning entry. The prize received entries from 15 UK universities (Aberystwyth, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Dundee, Durham, Exeter, King’s College London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Queen…
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The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the RGS-IBG are sponsoring more than 30 sessions at the upcoming RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, having a lunchtime social, and hoping to connect with more political geographers during the week! The Annual International Conference takes place at the University of Birmingham Tues 26th – Fri 29th Aug 2025.…
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The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society will be holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) online on Monday, 1 September, 11.00am BST. Everyone is very welcome to attend! The AGM is an opportunity to review activities and achievements of the group over the past year, and it is a chance to plan activities…
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On 19-20 June, the Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) welcomed political geographers from near and far to Newcastle for its biennial workshop. The theme this year was ‘Practising Political Geography: Risk, Responsibility, and Reciprocity’. In times marked by increasing censorship, violence, and silencing, the workshop sought to ask questions such as: What risks are associated with…
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As part of the Political Geography Research Group’s mentoring series, one suggestion that came up was to compile an overview of potential postdoctoral research opportunities for early-career researchers (ECRs). With many thanks to Yu-Shan Tseng – one of the committee’s ECR representatives – for collecting the information here! The below table is by no means…