Human Geography Research Seminar Programme

Spring Semester 2010

Seminars are held on Tuesdays in the Geography Department in the Ron Johnston Research Room at 4pm. Seminars are open to all interested people; staff and postgraduates are especially encouraged to attend.

Tuesday 23 February
Wildlife media and representations of Africa, 1950s-1970s
William Beinart (Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford)
 
Tuesday 9 March
Including the social network in geographical analysis: some multilevel approaches
Mark Tranmer (Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester)
 
Tuesday 13 April
Estimating the costs of crime - and the value of crimes 'prevented' - across the New Deal for Communities area-based initiative
Adam Whitworth (Geography, University of Sheffield)
 
Tuesday 27 April
Constitution Hill: The fortification of South Africa's emancipation
Zarina Patel (Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
 
Tuesday 11 May
The 'non-DAC donors' and the changing landscape of foreign aid: challenges to postcolonial geography
Emma Mawdsley (Geography, University of Cambridge)
 
Tuesday 29 June
Effect of travel mode choice on personal pollution exposure
Simon Kingham (Geography, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)