What inspired you to choose your dissertation topic and how did you narrow down your focus? My dissertation topic was inspired by British Sign Language modules I had taken in my second and third year of my degree. From the British Sign Language modules, I felt that it would enable me to learn a beautiful…
We’re excited to launch the new-look GeogEdRG.org After 12 years of our old design, we thought GeogEdRG.org deserved an entire-site update. Our website refresh is far from being just visual! We’ve also implement a range of digital tools to help improve ease-of-use and the services we can offer. These include: Our Events listing being fully…
Launching the ‘Geography and Education Research Group’ of the Royal Geographical Society **Registration now closed** ‘Geography and the student experience’ To celebrate the Higher Education Research Group becoming the Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd) we are hosting a two-day conference and workshop event at University of the West of England on 16th-17th December 2019. …
If you are interested in submitting a paper to any of these sessions please contact the session convenor. 1. The role of reflection in fieldwork Catherine White catherine.white@northumbria.ac.uk; 2. Postgraduate Innovations: Navigating the Research and Pedagogy Nexus Jennifer Pipitone, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) & Natalie Tebbett, Loughborough University. jennifer.pipitone@gmail.com; N.Tebbett@lboro.ac.uk;…
If you are interested in reading blogs based on the papers given at HERG sponsored sessions at the RGS conference this year check out THE GEES network blog.
The HERG committee are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s undergraduate and postgraduate reflective writing prizes. The winner of the undergraduate prize is Harry West (University of the West of England) and the winner of the postgraduate prize is Tracy Hayes (University of Cumbria). Congratulations to them and thank you to all who…