Welcome back to the third instalment of ‘Coming up this week’ and there’s lots of interesting things happening this week! Most excitingly Professor John Spicer (yes, THE Spicer from Gaston and Spicer) speaking at this weeks CUGS talk, and… Read More »Coming up this week: Thursday 30th January 2020 – Wednesday 5th February 2020.
Coming up this week: Thursday 23rd January 2020 – Wednesday 29th January 2020. Welcome back to our second edition of ‘Coming up this week’! There’s an awful lot going on this week from careers events, seminars and forums and the… Read More »Coming up this week: Thursday 23rd January 2020 – Wednesday 29th January 2020.
Mental health is increasingly part of debates across society, but where does it feature in conversations about geography? The link between mental health and urban environments has been the subject of an emerging field of research in psychogeography and urban… Read More »Can We Design Better Mental Health into Cambridge?
Content note: This article contains graphic description of incidents of animal cruelty Gun to your head, what’s the most valuable animal product on the planet? What would you say? Caviar? Wagyu beef? Pearls? All wrong. More valuable than gold, platinum… Read More »Rhino, the struggle against extinction
Content note: This article contains graphic description of incidents of animal cruelty Gun to your head, what’s the most valuable animal product on the planet? What would you say? Caviar? Wagyu beef? Pearls? All wrong. More valuable than gold, platinum… Read More »Rhino, the struggle against extinction
Welcome to our new section of the blog! Before the start of each academic week, we’ll be giving you the rundown on some of the top geography-related events for the coming week, both within Cambridge and further afield. Information about… Read More »Coming up this week: Thursday 16th January 2020 – Wednesday 22nd January 2020.
Welcome to our new section of the blog! Before the start of each academic week, we’ll be giving you the rundown on some of the top geography-related events for the coming week, both within Cambridge and further afield. Information about… Read More »Coming up this week: Thursday 16th January 2020 – Wednesday 22nd January 2020.
Here I present you my Top 10 first year reads, plus a bonus recommendation by another second year! I would like to stress and emphasise to any first years reading this that not all of these books are on the… Read More »TOP 10 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY FIRST YEAR READS
…and what charity organisation Frontline is doing about it. Geographers have long been interested in understanding the complexity of gendered divisions in labour across the world. In the UK, only 14% of children and family social workers are men; despite… Read More »Can men care? Social work as a gendered profession…
Based on the exhibition ‘Takis’ at Tate Modern, London (3 July- 27 October) Geographical understandings of space can reveal the connections and energies that exist between elements. The Greek artist Takis (1925-2019), in this latest exhibition at Tate has explored… Read More »Magnetic spaces: Attracting science to art