http://www.bris.ac.uk/geography/news/ Latest news from the School of Geographical Sciences en-gb Sat, 25 May 2013 21:11:17 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss jeni.milsom@bristol.ac.uk J.Tooby@bristol.ac.uk http://www.bris.ac.uk/university/web/terms-conditions.html 60 Search news archive by keyword news_text http://www.bris.ac.uk/geography/news/news-results.html http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/324.html Professor Paul Bates has received an award to accelerate the impact of his research. This award is part of a pilot funding scheme from Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) which awarded five grants totalling £70,000 across four Schools. Fri, 24 May 2013 10:32:54 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/324.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/323.html Dr Alex Anesio has been invited to speak at the event organised by the UK Royal Society and the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 26 and 30th of May. Alex will be presenting at the Geobiology and life at the extremes session the paper entitled “Geobiology and life in the cold”. The session will address field and laboratory studies of the diversity, distribution, functions and preservation of life and associated biogeochemical processes in extreme habitats. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:20:08 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/323.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/322.html Professor Kelvyn Jones will receive the prestigious Murchison award at the Royal Geographical Society's AGM on Monday 3rd June. The award is given for Professor Jones' contributions to quantitative geography. Fri, 17 May 2013 11:26:24 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/322.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/321.html Philosopher Luce Irigaray (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) has been awarded a Visiting Professorship by the Leverhulme Trust to collaborate with Dr Maria Fannin over a period of two years (2013-2014). Thu, 09 May 2013 09:00:31 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/321.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/320.html Geographical Sciences has launched a termly newsletter for students and staff and Issue 1 is available to download now. Wed, 08 May 2013 10:47:32 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/320.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/319.html Dr. Adam Dixon has been awarded a World Universities Network grant to visit Maastricht University's European Centre for Corporate Engagement (ECCE). At ECCE, a leading research centre on sustainable finance and responsible investing, Dr. Dixon will conduct research on the geopolitics and economic geography of transparency and long-term investors. Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:10:54 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/319.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/318.html Professor Kelvyn Jones has been elected to a Fellowship of the Learned Society of Wales; as such he becomes the third geographer to be so honoured. Sir John Cadogan, the Society’s President, said: We have once again elected a further very strong cohort of new Fellows; the Society’s continuing focus on excellence and achievement will ensure that its Fellowship will represent the very best of which Wales is capable in the major academic disciplines. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:55:43 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/318.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/317.html Dr Julie MacLeavy has been invited to speak at the Policy Studies Conference in Toronto, Canada in May. The conference theme is 'Policy Research in Times of Austerity and Uncertainty', and Julie will be presenting at the welcome reception under the title 'A 'new politics' of austerity, workfare and gender? The UK coalition government's reform policy'. Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:17:20 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/317.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/316.html Meltwater flow beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet has been traced up to 60km from the ice margin by a team of scientists from the Universities of Bristol, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Aberystwyth. Their work, which represents the first successful attempt to trace meltwater flow through thick ice and over distances of some tens of kilometres on an ice sheet, is published in Nature Geoscience this month. Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:12:56 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/316.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/315.html The Personal Finance Research Centre (PFRC) which is based in the School of Geographical Sciences has produced an independent research report for the Government's Department for Business Innovation & Skills that highlights the impact of a cap on the total cost of credit. This publication coincides with the publication of the Office of Fair Trading’s final report on payday sector compliance. Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:34:48 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/315.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/314.html Professor Ron Johnston gets a mention by Monash University as one of their prominent alumni. Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:06:20 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/314.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/313.html Sophisticated computer modelling has shown how sea-level rise over the coming century could affect some regions far more than others. The model shows that parts of the Pacific will see the highest rates of rise while some polar regions will actually experience falls in relative sea levels due to the ways sea, land and ice interact globally. Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:57:23 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/313.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/312.html The Battle of Bosworth Field may never have occurred if Henry Tudor’s first attempt to seize the throne from Richard III, two years earlier, hadn’t been thwarted by the inclement weather of October 1483, a researcher investigating historical sea floods at the University of Bristol has discovered. Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:44:46 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/312.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/311.html Prof. Jim Freer (Geographical Sciences) and Dr Tom Richardson (Aerospace Engineering) are collaborators on a new funded NERC proposal to investigate southern tropical sources of methane, in order to study this relatively neglected part of the global methane budget and in particular recent anomalies in the record. Methane growth anomalies are one of the most direct “fingerprints” of short-term biogeochemical (Earth system) feedbacks onto climate and, as such, represent a key science target for greater understanding. The proposal is being led by Prof. Euan Nisbet at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of London, Royal Holloway with collaborations from Cambridge, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Bristol. Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:18:55 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/311.html News http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/310.html Professor Wendy Larner has accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of Economy and Society. This radical interdisciplinary journal of theory and politics continues to be one of the most exciting and influential resources for scholars in the social sciences worldwide.  The journal has a growing profile in critical geography, and would like to encourage more work in this area. Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:02:18 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/news/2013/310.html News