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Geography Student Photo Competition 2012
The department is very pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Geography Student Photo Competition.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Geography celebrates successes
May has been a remarkable month for the Department of Geography, its students and staff.
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Richard Phillips joins the department
Professor Richard Phillips joined the department as Professor of Human Geography from 1 May.
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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'.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Categorised under: International Development, Postgraduate study and Undergraduate study -
Andrew's TEDxMunich talk now available on TED website
Last year Andrew McGonigle gave a talk on his work in volcanology at TEDxMunich.
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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.
Categorised under: Alumni and Undergraduate study