| 10 September |
Phil Wookey joins the department
Phil Wookey joined the department as Professor of Physical Geography from 1 August... |
| 5 September |
Workshop builds on collaboration with National University of Singapore
The "Decentring Knowledge: geographical perspectives on keywords" workshop builds on the emerging collaboration between the Geography departments at Sheffield and the National University of Singapore.... |
| 3 September |
Come along to our Intro Week Welcome Walk!
All undergraduate and postgraduate students are invited to join Geography staff and members of the GeogSoc committee on a special walk to the Peak District to welcome all our new Geography students to Sheffield... |
| 2 August |
Tariq researches southern Indian architecture
During August 2012 Tariq Jazeel is a Visiting Fellow at L'Ecole Francais d'Extreme Orient, in Pondicherry, South India... |
| 1 August |
Scholarships allow students to explore
The new Harley Scholarships support students in fieldwork and studying abroad... |
| 23 July |
Jamie blogs for time capsule
Jamie Smith (BA Geography, 2010) has written a blog entry which has been selected as a contribution to the National Policing Improvement Agency's “Policing 2012: a 100 blog time capsule”... |
| 6 July |
Shrinking ice sheets
Chris Clark has received NERC funding to investigate historical ice sheet retreat... |
| 28 June |
Academic Prices 2011-12
We are pleased to announce this year's prizes... |
| 22 June |
Geography Student Photo Competition 2012
The department is very pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Geography Student Photo Competition... |
| 21 June |
Peter is Olympic torchbearer
Peter Moss (L1 BSc Geography) will bear the Olympic torch next week as it makes its way towards the Olympic Stadium.... |
| 15 June |
André receives R Alison Hunter Prize
André Bisson has been awarded the R Alison Hunter Prize enabling him to engage in a "potentially life-changing" piece of work... |
| 24 May |
Gold from ice?
Chris Clark has presented a keynote to the Irish Association for Economic Geology explaining how traces of valued minerals have been smeared across the landscape by ice flows during the last glaciation... |
| 21 May |
Singing the Olympic celebrations
Ruth Hindmarsh (Level 2, BA Geography) has been selected to become a member of the 100-strong Youth Music Voices choir who will be performing throughout the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad... |
| 18 May |
Geography celebrates successes
May has been a remarkable month for the Department of Geography, its students and staff... |
| 14 May |
Richard Phillips joins the department
Professor Richard Phillips joins the department as Professor of Human Geography from 1 May... |
| 11 May |
Postgraduate Student Wins RGS Dissertation Prize
Lauren Howes, an MA International Development student (2010-11), has won the RGS-IBG's Population Geography Research Group's Inaugural 'Bob Woods Postgraduate Dissertation Prize'... |
| 8 May |
What a difference 12 months makes!
This time last year we were carrying a news item about the exceptionally dry spring; a year on and the situation has totally changed, with Sheffield receiving a record three times its normal rainfall... |
| 2 May |
On the breadline: Foodbanks
Hannah Lambie-Mumford, a PhD student in the Department appeared on a BBC Radio Scotland documentary on food banks at the weekend.... |
| 1 May |
It's West Pokot Week
Once again we are hosting a week of events to raise money for educational facilities in remote communities of Kenya... |
| 10 April |
Adam links inequality and crime
Findings from Dr Adam Whitworth's recent research on the links between inequality and crime across England have been published in Public Servant - the internal magazine of England's civil service... |
| 21 March |
Development students help Mbara pre-school
Over the last three years our students have raised over £4,000 helping communities in a remote part of north-western Kenya... |
| 6 March |
Andrew's TEDxMunich talk now available on TED website
Last year Andrew McGonigle gave a talk on his work in volcanology at TEDxMunich... |
| 1 March |
Heather named as IEMA Graduate Award Winner 2011
Heather Poore, (BSc Geography, 2009) Youth Volunteering Project Manager at Global Action Plan has been awarded the IEMA's Graduate Award 2011... |
| 24 January |
Postgraduate Newsletter Winter 2011/12 Edition
The latest edition of our Postgraduate Newsletter has just been published... |
| 06 January |
High winds make departmental TV star
High winds across the county this week made a TV star out of one of the Department's weather stations... |
