I’ve been elected to the RGS-IBG’s Research and Higher Education Committee 🌍 Geography in UK HE is in a period of change, and I want to be one of the people shaping where it goes and continue to champion the excellent work geographers do. That’s exactly why I am excited to be part of the committee!

🚨📣 We’re launching the first Early Career Editorial Board for Digital Geography & Society. If you’re a #PhD student, postdoc, or #ERC working on #digitalgeographies, we’d love to hear from you. We offer mentoring & hands-on experience in #academicpublishing & editorial work. Please share widely 🙏

📘🌏 A Research Agenda for Emotional Geographies By Danielle Drozdzewski, Natasha Webster, @tessosborne.bsky.social, and David Conradson 🆓 Read the first chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781... ℹ️More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

Welcome to our research and higher education Bluesky! 👋 Follow us to stay up to date with our work in geographical research, including events, funding opportunities, new publications and more. Learn more about how we promote geography in higher education and beyond: https://ow.ly/CMgN50YI795

Geography's 'combination of STEM, social science and arts and humanities can sit uneasily within university faculty systems, heightening the risk that we are dismantled into separate components.' 1/2

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings

From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

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Opinion: “Geography shapes how we understand and produce a more sustainable and just world. It is, by design, a holistic, systems-based approach to understanding the world.” The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings, write five professors #highered https://ow.ly/VI5L50YgHBe

I am excited to share that I am joining Digital Geography and Society as Co-Editor-in-Chief 🎉📚 This is a journal that feels made for the world(s) we are living in now; where the digital reshapes space, power, work and everyday life. More soon 🚀

🎉 Meet the DGRG Committee! Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting the brilliant humans who keep the DGRG running, including a mix of familiar faces and new members. First up (because someone has to go first)… our Chair, Tess Osborne (she/her/hers)! 👇 @tessosborne.bsky.social #DGRGCommittee

New Online 1st Commentary “Situated digital involuntary: Intersectional digital freedom and agency” by Tess Osborne doi.org/10.1177/2043...

Statement from the Digital Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG) The Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) are deeply concerned about the impacts and implications of ongoing crises facing Geography departments in UK Universities. 1/6

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Geography Awareness Week arrives at the same time that Geography at the University of Leicester faces closure. Please sign and share: c.org/vfDRJPwwbm #GeographyAwarenessWeek #SaveGeography #Geography #HumanGeography #PhysicalGeography #HigherEd #UKHE

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The DGRG Dissertation Prize 2025 Winner is Levina Purewal for “‘I can’t think without ChatGPT’: A Cognitive Sociotechnical Assemblage Analysis of Student-AI Entanglement at Durham University”. Reviewers praised the contribution, multi-method approach, analysis & ambition 1/2 @geogdurham.bsky.social

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We're looking for fantastic digital geographers to join our committee! A few committee roles are open, and we’d love to see new (and familiar) faces step up. It’s a chance to meet other digital geographers and help shape what we do next. Apply here: shorturl.at/kvDIv Deadline: 24th Sept.

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We have a new paper in @wssjournal.bsky.social: “Caring with: positioning social support in landscapes of care.” It argues that social support is central to sustaining informal dementia care, reshaping how care is organised and experienced. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Caring with: positioning social support in landscapes of care

Informal caring is often framed as an individualised activity, with support networks positioned as peripheral rather than integral to sustaining care.…

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Attending RGS-IBG AC25? Before the main conference kicks off, please join us for our pre-conference workshop on Tuesday 26th August, 12pm-5pm, in the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences. Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann... @rgsibg.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Pre-conference activities - RGS

Find out more about activities taking place in the run-up to the conference.

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Human Geography at Leicester is ranked No.1 in the UK for overall positivity in the 2025 NSS 🥇🎉 Massive thanks to our students for the feedback and the brilliant staff who made it happen. I’m proud to be part of GGE! Read more: le.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... #Geography #HumanGeography #NSS2025

Last week was our Global Digital Geographies Symposium with speakers from China, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, Iran, the US, UK & more making it our most international symposium! Thank you to everyone who presented work, attended sessions, & discussed emerging ideas 1/3 #DGRGSymposium2025

With the student grades now released, it’s the end of the academic year for me (yay!) I’m very much looking forward to getting into some writing this summer; especially a new digital geographies book with the fantastic @samkinsley.uk #newbook #watchthisspace

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Clear skies for the Berlin field course 🇩🇪🌤️

Guess who has finally arrived on bluesky? Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing. #digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe

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It was a pleasure to be in Poznań week talking to colleagues and graduate students about VR and NeRF techniques. Thank you to @michalrzeszewski.bsky.social for the invitation!