Political Geography Research Group

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,…

A prize of £75 is offered for the best undergraduate dissertation in political geography submitted to a UK university during the 2021-22 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…

After the Al-Jazeera Podcasts the PolGRG met. We wanted to start a conversation, craft our own statement in response, and outline actions we will take as a group to make political geography a safer space for everybody. You can read it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KnThCC7OVm1dIPFdkkzXbEtxiUD4E1zlsFzLveHV3HU/edit

During this autumn/fall term, the RGS Political Geography Research Group is hosting a series of writing retreats on alternating Thursdays, from 2-5pm UK time (GMT). Please join us for one or all of these by registering below. These will be aimed at postgraduates and early career academics, but those at any career stage are welcome…

We’re delighted to announce the results of the annual undergraduate dissertation prize. It may have been a turbulent year, but it produced some outstanding undergraduate research projects and among the largest numbers of nominations in recent years. The judging panel (Anthony Ince, Cordelia Freeman and Daniel Hammett) received submissions from across the UK, on a…

Call for Papers RGS-IBG Political Geography Research Group Biannual Workshop  30th June – 1st July Inequalities of Knowledge Production in Political Geography There exists long standing conversations in Geography more widely and Political Geography particularly on the inequalities of knowledge production. These conversations have built a foundation and set a precedent for critically examining the…