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RGS-IBG Annual Conference Tuesday 26 August 2025 to Friday 29 August 2025 – Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) Organisers: Bina Khapung, Northumbria University and Anil Sindhwani, Durham University We invite postgraduate students conducting research in Political Geography to present their work in this session, designed to provide a supportive and relaxed platform at a major…
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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. This year’s conference will be chaired by Professor Patricia Noxolo (University of Birmingham, UK) on the theme of Geographies of Creativity/Creative Geographies. It will take place at the University of Birmingham and online from Wednesday 27th to Friday…
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We are pleased to finally announce the winner of the Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) Book Award. We received a collection of strong nominations for this year’s book award, which engage with a range of current debates across political geography and advance key conceptional thinking therein. The collection of nominations illustrates the high quality of…
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Please join the second seminar in our series focused on student solidarities with Palestine, organised by the Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). This follows the first seminar in September, which focused on ‘Global Solidarities: Experiences from the encampments’. Many of the students and activists in the encampments are demanding…
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The panel of the 2024 PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize (Semra Akay, Shawn Bodden, Olivia Mason, Luke Temple) is delighted to announce its winning entry. The prize received entries from 12 UK universities (Queens Belfast, Glasgow, Durham, Nottingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Lincoln, Southampton, Oxford, Leeds, Exeter, Royal Holloway). Topics covered climate strategy, national identity, low traffic neighbourhoods,…
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Please join our seminar series focused on student solidarities with Palestine, organised by the Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): Many of the students and activists in the encampments are demanding disclosure, divestment, and acknowledgment of their university’s role in supporting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. All 12 universities of…
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A prize of £100 is offered for the best undergraduate dissertation in political geography submitted to a UK university during the 2023-24 academic year. We welcome nominations that are conceptually, methodologically, and empirically innovative from across the broad spectrum of political geography and its sub-disciplines. Please note: Nominations are limited to one per department and…
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The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the RGS-IBG is pleased to announce that it is funding up to three bursaries of up to £250 each for early career academics based in the UK to attend the International Geographical Union – Commission for Political Geography pre-conference in Belfast, 22-24 August 2024. The IGU-CPG website with more…
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RGS-IBG Annual Conference Tuesday 27 August to Friday 30 August 2024 Political Geography Research Group CFP: New and Emerging Research in Political Geography This session provides a space for postgraduate students undertaking research in Political Geography to present at a major conference in a supportive and relaxed setting. Our intention is to foster an environment…
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The panel of the 2023 PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize (Jonathan Harris, Semra Akay and Luke Temple) is delighted to announce its winning entry. The prize was delayed owing to the UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott over the summer of 2023. The prize also received fewer entries than average for recent years, coming from only 5…