Have you ever wandered what a typical geographer at Cambridge gets up to in a day? Today I interviewed Sophie Angel, a second-year geographer at Murray Edwards College to investigate what a day in the life is like for a… Read More »A day in the life of a Geographer!
Dr Chloe Steadman and co-author Dr Anna de Jong have been researching atmospheres of belonging, exclusion, and processes of territoriality at Manchester’s craft beer festivals. Anna Gardner, our blog editor, recently interviewed Chloe about her work. I understand that your… Read More »Beer and belonging: an interview with Dr Chloe Steadman
Publicity Officer Effie spoke to Fazilette (Faz) Khan about the charity GreenSeas Trust and its aims. Fazilette (Faz) Khan (MNM) is the founder of the charity GreenSeas Trust, who aim to educate, promote and implement environmental programmes to eliminate plastics… Read More »Reducing Ocean Plastic: An interview with the founder of GreenSeas Trust
Following on from our blog post earlier this week, today we’ll be publishing another runner-up for the sixth form essay competition: Zinzi Mlotshwa from Great Western Academy, who included some very interesting considerations of CCS as well as the carbon… Read More »Essay Competition: Runner Up (2)
Our sixth form essay competition has wrapped up! We received a ton of really inspiring and nuanced articles from all over the country on the subject of technology and climate change. Every single article demonstrated a great understanding of the… Read More »Essay Competition: Runner Up
Third year geographer Tilly Wring reflects on the experience of a summer internship with the TIGR2ESS programme. During the Summer of 2021, I was fortunate enough to undertake a remote internship with Flagship Project 1 (FP1) START (Sustainable and Transformative… Read More »Reflections on Interning with the START Green Revolution Project
Today we’re publishing the second half of Stephen Bromage’s essay on Blythe Valley, ‘Neo-Birmingham’, and urban processes of centralisation/dispersal. If you’ve enjoyed this work and wish to provide feedback, he urges you to contact him at in11bromage@gmail.com. From around 1970… Read More »A Thousand Blythe Valleys – Part 2
This week we are publishing a longform essay from Stephen Bromage. Stephen dwells for us here on his local area and how it fits into broader processes of (sub)urbanisation and wealth concentration. The first half is provided here, and we’ll… Read More »A Thousand Blythe Valleys – Part 1
Our first dissertation diary of this academic year has been written by Hunter Ridley, whose dissertation explores over 140 years of ecological change in the Colorado Front Range. 1. What is your dissertation about? My dissertation uses repeat photography to… Read More »Dissertation Diaries: Repeat Photography in the Colorado Front Range
Hey everyone! It’s the beginning of a fresh year at Cambridge and the beginning of another year for Compass! We have a new committee for 2021/2022 and we’re all excited to bring you more thoughts and reporting on everyone’s favourite… Read More »Welcome from the Editor-in-Chief