Departmental News News stories News items relating to the staff, students, courses and partnerships of the University of Sheffield Department of Geography. 27 March 2024 Lecture: Can researching everyday practices usefully inform social transformation for sustainability? The multiple crises that human societies are faced with today are fundamentally the consequences of human actions. But can research that focuses on everyday practices usefully inform wide-ranging systemic changes? 15 April 2024 Job alert: Research Associate in Drivers and Attribution of Antarctic Extreme Weather Events We have an exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to join the NERC-funded highlight topic project PICANTE (Processes, Impacts, and Changes of ANTarctic Extreme weather’), led by Dr Julie Jones. jobs.ac.uk 14 March 2024 Two Geography students win SURE awards Two students from the Department of Geography have been recognised for their work as part of SURE, the Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience. 7 February 2024 Geography at Sheffield recognised for advancement of gender equality We are very proud to announce that we have been awarded the Athena Swan Bronze Award for commitment to the advancement of gender equality within the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. Search Department hosts UK Luminescence Conference The Department of Geography this week played host to the UK Luminescence Conference (UKLUM18). Organised by Professor Mark Bateman and Professor Ed Rhodes, over 60 delegates from 10 countries took part in Sheffield in the two-day conference. 13 September 2018 Dr Bryant and Professor Bateman’s Tibet fieldwork sheds light on mega blowouts Dr Rob Bryant, Professor Mark Bateman and visiting researcher Wanyin Lou (Lanzhou, China) recently participated in an expedition to Tibet, as part of this year’s Royal Geographical Society Thesiger-Oman award. 29 August 2018 Health-led employment trial co-designed by University researcher launched by Disabilities Minister and Mayor 16 August 2018 | This article is located in a different section of the University of Sheffield website. Sheffield academics speak at geomorphology meeting in China Professor Mark Bateman and Dr Robert Bryant - joined by colleagues from University College London and Birkbeck - have just returned from taking part in an aeolian geomorphology research meeting, hosted by the Geography and Tourism department at Shaanxi Normal University. 2 August 2018 Geography performs strongly in 2018 National Student Survey With the publishing of the 2018 National Student Survey (NSS) results, the University of Sheffield has been ranked joint 6th in the Russell Group for overall satisfaction and is the number one Russell Group institution for learning community and second best for student voice. 30 July 2018 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Current page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Next page Next › Last page Last »