This week we’re taking a look at Sean’s dissertation. Sean is a 3rd year Geographer and one of our Editors-in-Chief at Compass. His dissertation focusses on music from the Sahara desert and how it is represented and marketed to global… Read More »Dissertation Diaries: Tuareg musicians, the Sahara and ‘desert blues’
We made through week five, woohoo! This week we have a range of events covering modern slavery, decolonial citizenship and career events such as getting into law without studying law at University! 🌍 As always, make sure you check the… Read More »Coming up this week – 12th November – 18th November 2020
“Hi there you cool cats and kittens”… wait hang on, I’m not talking about those types of cats. The first cat café opened in Taiwan in 1998, in Japan in 2004, and Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium opened in Shoreditch, UK,… Read More »The politics of cat cafés
This week we take a look at Bridget’s, a third year Geographer at Homerton, dissertation about using GIS to study glacier landsystems at Svalbard! What is your dissertation about? My dissertation is about glacier landsystems. It involves studying the landforms… Read More »Dissertation Diaries: Glacier Landsystems
Welcome to week five! 🌟 There are lots of exciting events planned this week to distract you from those infamous week five blues, from the 116th week of the #fridaysforfuture climate change strike to a talk by Dr. Jane Goodall DBE. Start times… Read More »Coming up this week – 5th November –11th November 2020:
This essay was written by Ruth O’Leary – one of the runner-ups of this year’s essay competition. Well done Ruth for a fantastic essay! ‘The needs of humans should have priority over those of nature in any planning for sustainability’… Read More »Essay Competition: Ruth O’Leary
Today’s focus is on George Breckenridge’s dissertation titled “‘Heavens below’: Excavating Roland Paoletti’s underground spectacle of (post?)modernity on London’s Jubilee Line Extension”. George graduated from Cambridge in 2020 after studying Geography at Fitzwilliam College. Compass is very grateful to George… Read More »Dissertation Diaries – ‘Heavens below’ in underground London
Week Four already, the start of term almost seems like a distant memory. 🌾 🌎 Nevertheless, there are lots of events this week to get involved with including webinars on how to sustainably transition out of the pandemic, online courses… Read More »Coming up this week 29th October – 4th November:
This essay is written by Clara Grosz, one of the runners up of our Sixth Form Essay Competition. ‘The needs of humans should have priority over those of nature in any planning for sustainability’. Discuss this suggestion. The most commonly… Read More »Essay Competition: Clara Grosz
This week’s instalment looks at Georgia Mason’s dissertation. Georgia is a third year Geographer at Newnham College. Her research focusses on the 2019 Amazon fires and their effects on local indigenous communities. Remote sensing can be used to create false-colour… Read More »Dissertation Diaries: Remote sensing and tree cover change in the Amazon