Our first results from analysing your #CoastSnapNewbiggin submissions. It’s been a pretty energetic winter in the North East, and so overall we’ve seen retreat (with lots of variability - albeit corrected for tide). Keep the submissions coming! @ncl-geography.bsky.social @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social

📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁! We’re pleased to share that our colleague, Dr Kean Fan Lim has published his new paper in the 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺.🎉 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀. 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁! academic.oup.com/joeg/advance...

🎉 Congratulations to our colleague, Dr Josep Almudéver Chanzà (@josepchanza.bsky.social), on his first monograph, "𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙨: 𝙍𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣" 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-lea...

There’s a great story on the RGS blog 𝙂𝙚𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮 𝘿𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 about the 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘼𝙩𝙡𝙖𝙨 and the research of our colleague, Dr James Riding. Well worth a read 👇 blog.geographydirections.com/2026/01/30/s...

How does the Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina disrupt conventional mapping by centering everyday, lived connections between people and place? 💭 James Riding (Newcastle University Geography) discusses this in a new Geography Directions blog post 👇 https://ow.ly/49hb50Y4M6m

Keep your eye out at the coast for our #CoastSnap locations - tracking coastal change through #CitizenScience. A day surveying in the Scottish Borders and Northumberland today so we can turn your fantastic submissions so far into quantitative outputs of shoreline change @ncl-geography.bsky.social

Spent yesterday hosted by Hartlepool Golf Club discussing the loss of their signature links holes as a result of a beck at the top of the beach cutting back the dunes. Interesting and exciting to explore collaboration, as well as research and monitoring opportunities @ncl-geography.bsky.social

Congrats to our colleague @catherinelwalker.bsky.social The book invites readers to reimagine universities as catalysts for climate justice through radical new approaches to our research, teaching, community engagement, and investment. Check this out here! ⤵︎ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BBKSM...

Our new study in Water looks at how “forever chemicals” (those that do not break down for centuries) are being released through coastal erosion of old landfills. We studied one such site to show how climate driven shoreline change releases long buried contaminants www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/18...

I recently published my first article: The Poetics of Knowledge in the Anthropocene: The Politics of Posthuman Knowledge. If you are interested in posthumanism, environmental crisis, radical politics or post-foundational theory, this might be of interest! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A beautiful crisp day at the beach today doing a laser scanner install, and a camera install for PhD Student Ellie @geospatialcdt.bsky.social with @rockavalanches.bsky.social @ncl-geography.bsky.social

We would like to congratulate Professor Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social on her nomination for the 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲. Her research has been shortlisted as one of three nominations to represent the UK. We are proud to see this work recognised at an international level.🎉

NEW PAPER in @ersjournal.com with @joeljoel.bsky.social about lifecycles of antiracism amongst activists in Glasgow 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

One of the better sunsets observed from my office at @ncl-geography.bsky.social

OTD 2020: I was doing fieldwork in Patagonia. I hope my colleagues @iceybethan.bsky.social & @christinebatchelor.bsky.social - currently in Patagonia - are enjoying similarly gorgeous landscapes!

Brilliant to see this paper rdcu.be/eUWMI by @NEGIS_Durham team & led by @louisecallard.bsky.social Work offshore with partners @awi.de revealing how ocean warming triggered ice shelf collapse @geogdurham.bsky.social @ncl-geography.bsky.social

A meaningful moment from the launch of the 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘼𝙩𝙡𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙯𝙚𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙖, with our colleague, James Riding. If you have a moment, take a look at this video 🎬 🎞️🎥Credit: Post-Conflict Research Centre (PCRC) Youtube youtu.be/fmd-4le_PHw?...

Over the moon that this paper is now out! A lot of work and submitted during maternity leave, but really proud of the final version. Thanks goes to all the co-authors on this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to our colleague Josep on his first monograph! A vivid ethnography of religion and public life in rural Spain, in the context of rising neo-conservatism. “a story of power, resistance and transformation”

Our department came together to celebrate the end of the year🎄🎅🏼🎁It was a wonderful Christmas party filled with joy and festive spirit! Thank you so much for organising Adam Badger!

Huge congrats to James Riding on the successful launch of the 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘼𝙩𝙡𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙯𝙚𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙖! Want to learn more? Read about it here: balkandiskurs.com/en/2025/12/0...

Nice new piece on 'Radio geopolitics' by my colleague Alison Williams. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW BOOK with a 20% discount code 👇

📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University! 👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores". This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat. More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

It's been an excellent and very exciting week, planning the next IPCC report, meeting my new IPCC co-authors and talking climate science! #IPCC #IPCCAR7 @ipcc.bsky.social

🌟Exciting news from Dr James Riding in Sarajevo! Vijećnica is full of maps and alternative flags and is ready for our exhibition and launch of the Subjektivni Atlas Bosne i Hercegovine this evening and the exhibition will continue over the weekend for anyone in Sarajevo who would like to see it!

New in TIBG: 'Geopower, Geos and the colonisation of Palestine' by @casesofyou.bsky.social This paper draws on Grosz, Povinelli & Yusoff to examine how geopower underpins the conceptualisation of Palestinian space as either life-sustaining or life-threatening. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Out now in International Journal of Play, our reflections on Leeds City Council's play streets enablement project, explored from the perspectives of social, spatial and environmental justice, and calling for (even more) political, advocacy and policy work at all scales to support play on streets.

📢Professor Bethan Davies(@iceybethan.bsky.social )’s Juneau Icefield impact work is featured in the Global Tipping Points Report 2025 and in her invited UNESCO book chapter. Please check it out! global-tipping-points.org unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...

Precarity is not a niche issue. One-third of academic Geographers in the UK are on fixed-term contracts. Our report shows the profound personal, professional, and disciplinary impacts of this. #StatesofPrecarity Full report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...

Precarity is often presented as something that only effects early career researchers or people on fixed term contracts. Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious. The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇 www.rgs.org/research/hig...

My thoughts on the politics of Remembrance in the UK, written for John Heathershaw's excellent Substack blog 'Security After Christendom.' johnheathershaw.substack.com/p/the-two-wo...

Beautiful and urgent publication on alternative mappings of Bosnia and Herzegovina by James Riding: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl... @ncl-geography.bsky.social

for anyone interested, here's a new article (open-access) on geopower and Palestine: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We would like to share that Dr James Riding’s new book, the Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is launching in Sarajevo on 3 December. We’re very excited to share this incredible atlas. More details coming soon—stay tuned! Read more here 👇 www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

**New edited book** about Muslim youth in Southeast Asia 👇 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

📢Professor Bethan Davies(@iceybethan.bsky.social )’s Juneau Icefield impact work is featured in the Global Tipping Points Report 2025 and in her invited UNESCO book chapter. Please check it out! global-tipping-points.org unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...

Congratulations to colleague Merrill Hopper (@pruswieckowska.bsky.social) on her first publication!

Happy #PolarPride 2025! Celebrate diversity and the contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar science!

Contrasting the visibility of playful art installations with a decline in funding for public infrastructures, @alisonstenning.bsky.social discusses how playability of ordinary urban environments is often ignored, devalued and undermined in urban planning.

Important work here from @drchrishackney.bsky.social and colleagues -

It’s been wonderful to collaborate with Gazua Eluan on this book project and share her passion for preserving Bedouin cultural heritage. We’re having a book launch in Amman later this month: www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/book-l...

Excellent time learning to model compound flood events at @deltares.bsky.social today. Hugely grateful for @ncl-geography.bsky.social Impact Funding, meaning we can now incorporate this work into the Durham Heritage Coast plans over the coming years!

Join us on Monday 17th at 10 am uk time for our live streamed COP30 talk on tipping points in the Cryosphere! We’re talking at the Cryosphere Pavilion, Blue Zone.

We’re delighted to share that Bethan Davies (@iceybethan.bsky.social) has been invited to give a talk at COP30 this year. On 17 November, she'll deliver an online talk at the Cryosphere Pavilion about 𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴. 🛑LIVE @iccinet

Fantastic to see our colleagues Professor Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social and Dr Owen King contributing to UNESCO & WMO’s new volume Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World: Impacts and Outcomes! www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

NCL press release: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

Our recent article reflecting on neighbohood play during the first covid-19 lockdown, using Donald Winnicott (and Bonnie Honig and Joanna Kellond) to think about play, space, and care, both in the pandemic and beyond, now has a home in @tibg.bsky.social's December issue. @wendyrussell.bsky.social

It was a delight to contribute a couple of chapters to this important UK National Commission to UNESCO book on glaciers and ice sheets in a warming world: unesco.org.uk/resources/gl...

On Remembrance Sunday. I was delighted to retell this amazing story of a little-known WW2 truce. Sometimes it takes courage not to fight. @ncl-geography.bsky.social @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...