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2012
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
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...

2011
20 December	Marie Curie Fellow wins prestigious Green Talent award Dr Ana Paula Bortoleto has been awarded a prestigious Green Talent award by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research...
11 November	Another successful Athens fieldclass 25 Level 3 BA students and three members of staff have just returned from another successful GEO358 Geography of Europe Fieldclass to Athens, Greece...
12 October	Sheffield Geography students provide 'A Different View' Six of our former undergraduates have co-authored an article in the Geographical Association's (GA) journal Teaching Geography (Autumn 2011) providing their personal reflections on the GA's manifesto "A Different View"...
26 September	Geography at Sheffield tops 2011 National Student Survey The Department of Geography has achieved high satisfaction ratings in the 2011 National Student Survey (NSS). Degrees in Physical Geography (98% satisfied) and Human Geography (91% satisfied) at the University of Sheffield continue to offer an excellent student experience...
24 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 September	James aims to make it round the world James Hirst (BA Geography, 2008) left home this week to embark on a round-the-world bicycle ride to help raise £20,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support...
7 July	Academic prizes 2010 – 2011 We are pleased to announce this year's prizes...
22 June	Postgraduate Newsletter hot off the press! The latest edition of the Postgraduate Newsletter has just been published...
1 June	Peter Jackson appointed Chair of the Food Standards Agency's Social Science Research Committee (SSRC) Peter Jackson has been appointed as Chair of the FSA's SSRC, having previously served on the committee since its inception in 2008...
25 May	How melting glaciers effect ocean currents Departmental staff have used a computer climate model to study how freshwater entering the oceans at the end of the penultimate Ice Age 140,000 years ago affected the parts of the ocean currents that control climate...
20 May	Department hosts 'Windy Day' meeting The 17th 'Windy Day' meeting will be held at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield on 19 October 2011...
17 May	Geography alumni awarded Two departmental alumni have recently received prestigious awards...
6 May	Tuck in for Tikeet! Following on from last year's success, this year's West Pokot Week is encouraging everyone in the Geography & Planning Building to "Tuck in for Tikeet"...
5 May	Three Geography staff nominated for Students' Union Academic Awards The University of Sheffield Students' Union recognises that good teaching has an enormous positive impact on student's learning experience...
21 April	Dry spring in Sheffield and no sign of a let up This spring so far has been unusually dry, with only 7.7 mm of rainfall recorded in March and 5.9 mm in April so far...
1 April	Nicky wins AAG Photo Competition Professor Nicky Gregson has won this year's Association of American Geographers (AAG) Geography in Focus photo competition...
8 February	Geography Student Photo Competition 2010 The department is very pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Geography Student Photo Competition...
7 February	Masters students return from successful Kenya fieldclass International development students (MA International Development, MPH Public Health and International development, MSc Environmental Change and International development) recently visited West Pokot, Kenya in order to gain firsthand experience of development fieldwork...
4 February	Ben Hennig named as one of 50 'ones to watch' in the North of England in 2011 The Institute of Public Policy Research North (ippr north) has just named Ben Hennig in the Northern Lights 2011 Top 50...
21 January	Stephanie awarded 2011 Geographical Association internship Stephanie Milton, a second year BSc student, has been awarded this year's internship at The Geographical Association...
19 January	Graduation of our first new Masters programmes On Thursday 13 January 2011 the first group of students from our new suite of Masters programmes graduated...
17 January	Hunting down 65,000 drumlins In a major new Channel 4 television series Birth of Britain Tony Robinson, together with Professor Chris Clark examine the forces that have shaped the British Isles...

2010
20 December	Bringing agriculture into the city Andrew Adam-Bradford was recently invited to Madrid to give a talk about urban agriculture at a Cafés Scientifiques organised by the British Council – Spain and La Casa Encendida...
14 December	Keep up-to-date with our Postgrads The latest edition of our Postgraduate Newsletter has just been published...
1 December	University announces £6M PhD Scholarships If you're amongst the best and brightest in Geography or Environmental Sciences and you want your research to have a positive impact on the world, then we want to hear from you...
17 November	Athens Fieldclass Success Dr Dimitris Ballas, Dr Adam Whitworth and 25 Level 3 BA students have just returned from another successful GEO358 Geography of Europe Fieldclass to Athens, Greece...
19 October	Hart Distinguished Scholar 2010 announced The Department of Geography is pleased to announce that this year's Hart Distinguished Scholar will be Professor Ted Schatzki from the University of Kentucky...
1 October	Ancient Tooth found on Masters Fieldclass Students visiting the east Yorkshire coast on the Environmental Analysis of Terrestrial Systems Masters fieldclass this week have made a surprise discovery...
5 July	Department celebrates another year of degree success The department again celebrates the achievements of its students with another year of degree successes...
30 June	Double dissertation award success Andrew Cooper and Jennie Evans, who were both graduated with BA in geography last year, have jointly won the 2009 undergraduate dissertation award of the Regional Science Association...
1 May	Congratulations Alan! Alan Gillingwater (MA in Social and Cultural Geographies) has been announced as joint first prize winner of the Landscape Research Group Masters dissertation project prize...
29 April	Harvey Armstrong debates EU regional policy Harvey Armstrong recently participated in a European Commission debate in Brussels on the results of EU regional policy between 2000 and 2006 and their implications for future policy...
28 April	Department awarded new £420,000 Antarctic research contract The Department has been awarded a NERC grant to examine the productivity of snow and ice-bound microbial ecosystems upon the Antarctic Peninsula...
12 April	Simon documents the Race to Number 10 Simon Roberts, who graduated in Human Geography in 1996, has been commissioned by the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art to document campaign activity in the 2010 Election race...
1 April	Mark makes chilling discovery A research team, including the Department's Dr Mark Bateman, publish a new paper in Nature today, identifying a mega-flood path across North America which channelled melt-water from a giant ice-sheet into the oceans...
30 March	Internship winner visits the Geographical Association Emma Browning (BSc Geography) has become the first-ever recipient of an annual month-long internship at the Geographical Association (GA) headquarters after winning an essay-writing competition organised jointly by the GA and the Department of Geography...
29 March	Athens fieldclass success Staff and 25 Level 3 BA students have just returned from another successful GEO358 Geography of Europe Fieldclass to Athens, Greece...
27 March	Food Activism studentship announced The Department, in collaboration with the Social Science Collections and Research Department of The British Library, is pleased to announce the availability of a fully-funded three-year PhD studentship to undertake an oral history study of recent British food activism...
26 March	Food Glorious Food A new exhibition at Weston Park Museum opened on Saturday 20 March, inspired by the Changing Families, Changing Food research programme, directed by Professor Peter Jackson and funded by The Leverhulme Trust...
25 March	Three PhD Scholarships announced in PV Futures - Photovoltaics for the Future Photovoltaics (PV) permit low-carbon energy to be generated directly by consumers, and thus offer a real method for reducing the world's overall carbon budget whilst ensuring security of energy supply. Three University Scholarships have been announced...
24 March	A Drumlin is Born Chris Clark and Felix Ng release a two-minute movie showing the first drumlin ever witnessed in actual growth...
23 March	Centenary Bursaries help students As part of the celebrations of the Department of Geography's centenary year in 2008, bursaries funded by past alumni were set up for both undergraduate and postgraduate students...
22 March	New Masters Bursaries The Department has announced a new raft of bursaries and funding opportunities for our Taught Masters students...
10 March	Postgrad Newsletter out The latest edition of our newsletter for our Masters and PhD students has been published...
10 February	Gain an insight into teaching There's an exciting opportunity for any current undergraduates who are considering teaching as a career - but you need to act quickly!...
5 February	Spring 2010 newsletter out! The spring 2010 issue of our newsletter for undergraduate applicants Update… has just been published...