Departmental News

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News items relating to the staff, students, courses and partnerships of the University of Sheffield Department of Geography.

A student holds a stress ball with a globe pattern

26 May 2022

Geography students publish research article

A paper by students in the Department of Geography has been published in a major international journal, The Geographical Journal.

Masters student blog series: Ideas and practice in International Development

24 May 2022

Criminalising marital rape: Can a rights-based approach change Nigeria’s current position on gender-based violence against married women?

For our masters blog, Onome discusses the human rights-based approach development cooperation in the context of women's bodily autonomy.

23 May 2022

Dr Miguel Kanai wins Best Paper award

Dr Kanai’s paper on infrastructure-led development and the re-emergence of spatial planning strategies was named as the Best Paper for the Regional Studies journal.

12 May 2022

University of Sheffield celebrates its impactful research

The Search for Netukulimk: Can the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach understand and advance the First Nations’ fight for food security?

18 May 2022

Buen Vivir and Food Sovereignty: A Radical Future Beyond Food Insecurity?

In our masters blog, Matthew discusses the commodification of food and looks at international solutions to food insecurity.

11 May 2022

To use or to be able to use? That is the question: a critical blog using the capabilities approach to rethink digital inequalities

In our new 2021/2022 masters students' blog series, Maya Ljubojevic discusses how the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted pre-existing digital inequalities (DI).

4 May 2022

Green farmland and fields stretch out in the distance. In the foreground a man is covering some hay bales with black plastic

New research shows how to include more farmers in the design of new environmental policies

A new paper explores how government policy-makers can include a wide range of farmers in the design of new Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes, using different engagement strategies to work with individuals who may be harder to reach.

30 March 2022

When does the development of infrastructure make people’s lives harder?

A Sheffield geographer publishes insights from an ESRC Impact Prize project.

15 March 2022