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Ice Sheets and Sea Level research project launched
With twenty six researchers spread across eight universities, the British Geological Survey and British Antarctic Survey, the new £3.7 million BRITICE-CHRONO research project has now officially started
Categorised under: Climate & Cryosphere, Research and Environmental Reconstruction & Observation -
Homelessness kills
Dr Bethan Thomas has been commissioned by Crisis - the national charity for single homeless people, to investigate homeless mortality. The report shows homeless people die 30 years younger than the national average.
Categorised under: Research and Social & Spatial Inequalities -
Sun shines on Welcome Walk
It was another glorious day for our annual Welcome Week Walk into the Peak District
Categorised under: Undergraduate study -
Andrew Sole: quick profile
Glaciologist Dr Andrew Sole joined the department over the summer after being awarded a Social Science Research Fellowship. Here he gives a brief outline of his career and talks about where his work here at Sheffield will be focussed.
Categorised under: Climate & Cryosphere, Research, Ecosystem Dynamics & Biogeochemistry and Staff -
Internship competition starts soon
We're very pleased to announce that the Geographical Association and the Department of Geography have agreed to another paid 4-week summer internship with the Geographical Association (GA) in 2013.
Categorised under: Undergraduate study -
Danny becomes video star for the Festival of the Mind
A specially created animation based on the work of Danny Dorling and Ben Hennig launched yesterday as part of Festival of the Mind showing how Sheffield is connected to the rest of the world more today than it has ever been.
Categorised under: Research, Social & Spatial Inequalities and Staff -
'Mind the Gap' highlights education inequality across the EU
A team of authors, led by the department's Dr Dimitris Ballas have just published a new European Commission report showing that where you live in Europe can strongly influence your education and prospects in life.
Categorised under: Research and International -
Sheffield placed in worldwide top 50 geography departments
The Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield has been placed in the top 50 geography departments worldwide in the world's largest and most extensive university rankings
Categorised under: Research, International, Postgraduate study and Undergraduate study -
Phil Wookey joins the department
Phil Wookey joined the department as Professor of Physical Geography from 1 August
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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
Categorised under: International -
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
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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
Categorised under: Research -
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”
Categorised under: Alumni -
Academic Prizes 2011-12
We are pleased to announce this year's prizes.
Categorised under: Undergraduate study -
Shrinking ice sheets
Chris Clark has received NERC funding to investigate historical ice sheet retreat.
Categorised under: Research