The PolGRG Book Award (2023-2024) 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 four recipients of the award have been Reece Jones’ Violent Borders:…
The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society will be holding its AGM online on the 5th September from 12.30-2pm (BST). Everyone is very welcome to attend and the AGM is an opportunity to review activities and achievements of the group over the past year but also a chance to plan activities for next year,…
A prize of £100 is offered for the best undergraduate dissertation in political geography submitted to a UK university during the 2022-23 academic year. We welcome nominations that are conceptually, methodologically, and empirically innovative from across the broad spectrum of political geography and its sub-disciplines. Nominations are limited to one per department. Nominated dissertations should be submitted…
Can’t wait to see everyone. As a reminder we’re in Bartolome House Room EG03. Our final schedule is below, and full panel details are here.
Tue, 9 May 2023 12:30 – 14:00 BST Online This event marks the first in a new series on mentoring, organized and led by RGS Research Groups. Over the coming year, we’ll be hosting a series of online events which aim to provide new approaches to mentoring. The impetus for this mentoring series arises from…
Thank you to everyone who submitted proposals to the Political Geography Conference. Registration to attend the event is now open for both in-person (£25) andon-line (£5) attendance at this event:https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-social-sciences/geography/political-geography-past-present-and-future An overview of the event is below. You can follow this link to see the full schedule and details of all panels.
Political Geography – Past, Present, and Future At a time of multiple political crises and profound geopolitical shifts, as well as the shifting landscape of higher education research and teaching, the PolGRG conference provides an opportunity for political geographers to reflect on the evolution of the sub-discipline. Political geography has the potential to make important…
For the third PolGRG book award, we received 18 incredible nominations that all demonstrate the outstanding and innovative scholarship in the sub-discipline. Narrowing down the list to a longlist of 10 books was not an easy task and deciding the winner even more challenging. The judging panel was especially impressed with the methodological vigour, interdisciplinarity,…
Dear all, It’s that time of year again! 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 conference will be chaired by Professor Harriet Bulkeley (Durham University, UK) on the theme of Climate changed geographies. It will take place…
The panel of the 2022 PolGRG Undergraduate Disseration Prize (Cordelia Freeman, Dato Gogishvili and Jonathan Harris) is delighted to announce its winning entry. The prize received entries from 13 UK universities (Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Durham, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Northumbria, Nottingham Trent, Nottingham, Oxford, Southampton, UCL). The studies ranged in their regional focus beyond the UK,…