‼️ Final show today‼️ Urban camping: convenient adventure or local nuisance? @Stand 4, 17:30, Edinburgh Fringe Campers, critics, and the camping-curious all welcome! 🎟 Tickets www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2570/... Double bill with Maria Gardani on sleep myths and how to get a good nights sleep!

Check out this super cool learning toolkit out in October. www.nai010.com/en/product/c.... It's been put together by the leaders of the Dutch 'Senses-Based-Learning' network (sensesbasedlearning.org) to try and get more sensory learning into education inside and outside academia #sensorystudies

Tickets still available for my 2nd (and final) Edinburgh Fringe show on ⛺️ urban camping 🚐 tomorrow (22 Aug), 17:40!! I’ll be discussing who’s doing it, why they do it, and asking how city councils should responding to this increasingly popular activity. Tickets: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2570/...

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The Provocateurs: Urban camping, and Sleep myths Hosted by comedian Susan Morrison. Dr Nina Morris (The University of Edinburgh) pitches up for some urban ca...

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Spent last week in Edinburgh flyering campervans and connecting with people in Facebook groups as part of my project on urban camping as outdoor recreation. Survey takes 10–15 mins and open to anyone who’s camped in a city in the UK. (NB: Not unhoused/involuntary camping) Link in comments!

Sad to see that (school) Geography students think that leaving litter on the beach is okay 😢. Also, bagging your rubbish does not make it vanish. Also, when are these going to be called ‘recyclable’ and not disposable. Take your litter home or put it in the nearest bin people. Some of today’s finds.

Call for participants! Have you camped in an urban area in the UK for leisure, fun, wellbeing, or adventure? In a bivvy, tent, van, car…? In your garden, a park, side street…? Please complete my survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... (anon., 10-15 mins). Please share. Thank you!

Urban camping survey

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

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Just published - our new open access paper on home camping during lockdown. From garden tents to driveway adventures, we show how people created micro-geographies of calm and connection. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PandemicGeographies #HomeCamping #UrbanNature #Wellbeing

The natural benefits of camping outdoors at home during the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper investigates the role of home camping as a coping mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period marked by heightened stress and restricted mobility. Drawing on existing literature reg...

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Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏 ⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025 📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au 📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p

Exciting!! I’ll be sharing my RSE research on urban camping in two shows this August as part of The Provocateurs programme at the Edinburgh Fringe. Come along to the shows or drop me a message if you’re interested in participating in the research. #urbancamping #stealthcamping #microadventure

What does morning smell like? This was the question Kate McLean-MacKenzie and I asked at the #UncommonSensesV conference in Montreal. Beginning with a 6am smellwalk followed by a plenary we drew on literature, language, and crowd-sourced insight. A smell map and co-authored paper to follow!

This we I seem to have swapped spotting curves in trees (#BackBone) for curves in rock

We are delighted to announce the appointment of 4 new members to the Transactions Editorial Board: Joe Gerlach, University of Bristol @jessaloomis.bsky.social, Newcastle University @ninajm.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh Junxi Qian, University of Hong Kong Welcome to the #TIBG team! #geosky

Early Mother’s Day walk just me n’ the dog while a football match was won and a sleepover lie-in was snoozed. Love watching the seasons change on regular routes. Happy to have a dog that, finally, after three years of seemingly relentless training, we can now let off in the woods.

Always looking out for #Sensory interpretation in the search for teaching ideas and examples. This time at the Pitt Rivers Museum.

A busy fortnight for my sensory geography students here in Edinburgh. Sound walking with Jonathan Prior last week, all things taste and flavour at Johnnie Walker Edinburgh this week. A week off and then smell mapping with Kate McLean the week after 😍

Read all about our recent research 'Helping adolescents cope with the burden of scoliosis' in @TheLancet Child & Adolescent Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #geography

Please share / Repost: Call for Papers for Historical Geographies of the Caribbean session at the Royal Geographical Society conference in August 2024. deadline for abstract submissions Feb 19th 2024. Please read post for further details (sorry text so small, please click images to enlarge)

Couch to 5K training with the boy going well (if slowly, trying to fit it round all the football training). Nothing like running with a pre-teen to make you feel old and unfit 😂

Our paper on adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is out now! #YoungPeople #Nature #Trees #Art #MixedMethods Open access link: mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

We finally had our traditional New Year trip to East Lothian today complete with #KellyKettle, hot chocolate, sausages, fire and marshmallows 😊 Doggo undecided on her new dog bag but she emerged dry and clean as a whistle!

A quiet day today taking down the decs 🥲 using up the last of the mincemeat, oh … and an afternoon dog walk/trip to the pub 😏

Making the most of time off before work resumes next week. This time a walk in the hills by #Edinburgh.

Got to love #Edinburgh. So close to the beach but feels so far away when you’re on the sands.

Happy New Year from Edinburgh!