Green policies, including wind farms, are turning into a battleground for the Welsh elections, according to a new article by Professor Michael Woods from our Department of Geography and Earth Sciences. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/46zz78zc #greenpolicies #renewableenergy #election #Senedd

Why windfarms and electricity pylons have become a major issue in the Welsh election

Green policies including wind farms are turning into a battleground for the Welsh election.

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A reminder of the RGRG sponsored sessions at this year's annual conference. Many of these sessions have abstract submission deadlines early next week. Further information is available on each of the session pages: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra...

The call for sessions, papers, and posters for AC2026 is still open 📣 The deadline for all submissions is Friday 6 March 2026. We recommend that session organisers review our guidance before circulating a call for papers and submitting a session proposal 👇 https://ow.ly/AoyP50Y3IOt

Guidance for session organisers | Annual Conference

Read our information for session organisers about how to organise a session at the conference.

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The call for sessions, papers and posters for our 2026 Annual International Conference is open! Session organisers can seek sponsorship from one of the Society’s Research Groups. Find out more and apply 👇 https://ow.ly/wWfr50XLmNq

Calls for Research Group sponsorship | Annual International Conference

Session organisers may wish to seek the sponsorship of one of the Society's Research Groups for their session.

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Great PhD Human Geography *fully funded* opportunity here in Swansea! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

 Human Geography: Fully funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Human Geography pathway (RS891) - Swansea University

We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

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Join our team: We're recruiting 2 x 3-year post doc researchers for the Rural-Spatial-Justice project at Aberystwyth, to undertake fieldwork on rural discontent & support for disruptive politics in the UK, Europe & USA. Closing date: 19 Oct. Details: jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/p...

After four days, 400+ sessions, discussions, receptions and Chair’s events, with over 2,000 geographers in attendance both online and remotely, our Annual Conference has come to a close. #rgsibg25 📷: Neill Bell-Shaw

Our Annual International Conference is coming up! 🌍 On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk 📷: University of Birmingham

The RGRG AGM will be held from 15:00-17:00 BST on Monday 1st September. The meeting will include a review of the RGRG’s activities in 2024/25, a look ahead at plans for 2025/26, and elections for vacant committee roles. More details on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/rural-geogra...

News, articles and reviews are welcome for the Summer 2025 edition of the RGRG newsletter. Overviews of events are welcome. Book reviews and contributions by PGRs and ECRs are most welcome and encouraged. Completed contributions should be emailed to Aimee (amorse1@glos.ac.uk) by Friday 18th July.

RGRG undergraduate dissertation prizes - Nominations are now open for this year’s prizes - the deadline is Tuesday 15th July. For more information see: www.rgs.org/research/res...

Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) - RGS

Learn about the Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) undergraduate dissertation prize and how to apply.

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The International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering (AGLE) Annual Conference 2025 will be held from 5-8 November 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand. RGRG members interested in attending can find further details at agleconference2025.com

The deadline for the RGRG ESRS grant has been extended to Friday 30th May 2025. All ECRs (including PhD students) presenting a paper and/or convening a session at the ESRS are welcome to apply. More details are available here: rgrg.co.uk/our-grants

Grim but essential reading. ‘after four years of sewage sludge spreading, microplastic levels in the fields it tested rose by up to 1,450%…’ with ‘little reduction in the soil of microplastics dumped 22 years ago: once they arrive, they don’t leave.’

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A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"When things disappear from the landscape, then something also disappears from our identity.” Using oral histories to explore the links between cultural and biological diversity medium.com/people-natur...

Oral histories reveal biocultural diversity across three regions of rural Germany

Biocultural diversity is the concept of links between human cultural diversity and biological diversity. In rural regions, where forests…

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New open access paper on farmers, globalization, populism and support for Bolsonaro in southern Brazil, with reflection on qualitative methods in electoral geography. Based Rural-Spatial-Justice and Global-Rural research: periodicos.uff.br/geographia/a...

101 Outdoor Arts are based at Greenham Common, Newbury, a former RAF base that once stationed 96 American nuclear missiles. In the 1980s, a group of West Berkshire commoners rose up in response, and made a disproportionate impact on the international arms race. merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2020/06...

Contested Countryside: Commons & the Cold War - The Museum of English Rural Life

How did a small group of West Berkshire Commoners impact on the US-USSR nuclear arms race in the 1980s? Read on and find out.

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We're new here so here's a quick introduction. We're a 5-year project selected by @erc.europa.eu & funded by @ukri.org on connections between rural discontent & disruptive politics through a spatial justice lens. Find out more about us here: ruralspatialjustice.substack.com/p/introducin...

INTRODUCING RURAL DISCONTENT, DISRUPTIVE POLITICS AND SPATIAL JUSTICE

Welcome to the Rural Discontent, Disruptive Politics and Spatial Justice Substack, where we’ll be exploring all things to do with rural politics and protest around the world and connections to disrupt...

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RGRG sponsored sessions at the RGS Annual International Conference 2025 Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.

Rural Entrepreneurship Conference, Bangor, 3-5 June 2025 The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 5pm, Monday 10 March. More details are available here: www.bangor.ac.uk/events/22nd-...

European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, Riga, 7-11 July 2025 The abstract submission deadline has been extended to Friday 28 February. More details are available here: esrs2025.rsu.lv

RGRG sponsored sessions at the RGS Annual International Conference 2025 Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.

PhD Opportunity: Carbon farming: co-creation for behavioural change within a supportive AKIS For more details on this PhD project please see: jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Harper Adams University: Funded PhD Studentship: Carbon farming: co-creation for behavioural change within a supportive AKIS

Funded PhD Studentship: Carbon farming: co-creation for behavioural change within a supportive AKISDirector of Studies: Professor David Rose (Harper Adams, Agriculture and Environment Department), Dr ...

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PhD Opportunity: Food ethics and food system resilience in the industrial and small-scale egg sector For more details on this PhD project please see: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Call for Papers! I co-organized a session on rural geography in Global South Regions @rgsibg.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference, kindly sponsored by @ruralgrg.bsky.social . Abstract submission ddl: 28 Feb 2025. For details, pls see the cfp below. We sincerely welcome your contributions!

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of our Rural Geography Research Group @rgsibg.bsky.social, we're sharing an overview of the Group's history and work, published in the Journal of Rural Studies. Read the article for free until 6 Feb 2025. spkl.io/6011fXQ5t

The Rural Geography Research Group at 50: Reflections on an evolving community of practice

This paper explores the development and work of the Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society over the last fifty years …

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@rgsibg.bsky.social RGS Annual International Conference 2025 We invite anyone interested in organising an RGRG-sponsored session to submit a proposal. Please email the following to Aimee Morse (amorse1@glos.ac.uk) and Martin Phillips (mpp2@leicester.ac.uk) no later than Friday 14th February 2025.