1. What is your dissertation about? My 3rd year dissertation involved the development of a record of sea surface temperature from the Agulhas current over the Holocene and last deglaciation by looking at the planktonic foraminiferal assemblage of a marine… Read More »Dissertation Diaries: Recording sea surface temperatures of the Agulhas current using marine sediment cores
The Covid-19 pandemic caused an immense shift in the nature of activism in 2020. Typical activism involving mass gatherings stopped, and activists devised other methods of influencing social change. For activists focusing on race, gender equality, poverty and climate change,… Read More »Activism and the fashion industry in 2020
In the next instalment of the Compass collaboration with Green Week, Bridget Tiller talks about extractivism and the idea of a Global Green New Deal. If you’re interested in this topic, check out the Green Week discussion event happening this… Read More »Extractivism and a Global Green New Deal
Today at Compass we are really excited to be posting the winner of our Sixth Form Blog Competition. This fantastic piece was written by Barnaby Cansdale from Concord College, and answers the question ‘What is the most effective policy that… Read More »Blog Competition Winner – Barnaby Cansdale
This week we are taking a look at Miriam Bengougam’s dissertation! Miriam is a 3rd year Geographer from Homerton, and her dissertation focuses on queer and female oriented fanfiction from the Captain America fandom. What is your dissertation about? When… Read More »Dissertation Diaries: Fanfiction! Representation, Politics and Transformation in the Captain America fandom
The Keystone XL pipeline has been a hugely contested project in America for over a decade now, although it is still often misunderstood. Keystone XL is not a new oil pipeline itself, but an extension of the existing Keystone network… Read More »The Keystone XL Pipeline as an Example of Successful Activism?
Today we hear from Ellie Brain who graduated from Fitzwilliam College in 2020. Her dissertation titled “A Tribute to my Mother: Investigating Invisibilities and ’Sandwiched’ Mothers in Austerity Gateshead” is the University’s entry for the 2020 RGS Alfred Steers Dissertation… Read More »Dissertation Diaries – A Tribute to my Mother
Welcome back to the blog! For the 2021 re-launch of the Compass blog, we’ve collaborated with CAMSoc (the Cambridge Advertising and Marketing Society)! We’re super excited to be bringing you the importance of geography to the marketing world! It just… Read More »Geography and marketing: The perfect pairing?
We’re so excited to be launching our 6th Form blog competition for this year! The essay competition is open to all Year 12 and 13 students and the deadline for entries is January 31st. Winners will be announced in early February.… Read More »Compass 2021 Sixth Form Blog Competition
Here at Compass we hope you all had a very merry, if slightly different, Christmas, and are excited for the new year! Today we’re bringing you our final Christmas blog post, which is the second instalment of our favourite photos… Read More »A photographic memoir of lockdown – Part Two