New editorial on how places are contesting the privatisation of local public services — and what remunicipalisation means for regional development. The debate on what works, where and why is far from over. Read the full editorial here: doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

💻 Join the Society’s Geography Career Hub and Opportunities group on LinkedIn We share posts highlighting geography career pathways, insights from graduates and professionals, and resources to support university study and research. Join the community 👇 https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13090096/

How can placemaking provide a means through which Black geographers claim belonging and reshape structures within Geography? Zenzo Sibanda (King's College London) talks to our Geography for All Coordinator Jasmine Roberts in a new Geography Directions post 👇 https://ow.ly/e5VP50ZauKx

Congratulations to this year’s Society medal and award recipients, recognised for their outstanding contributions to geographical research. Learn more about some of this year’s recipients, working across the geography academic community, below 👇

Completed your registration for Annual Conference 2026? Take a closer look at this year’s conference theme, 'Geographies of inequalities: towards just places', by exploring our virtual issue, showcasing recent papers from across our journals that align with the topic 👇 https://ow.ly/nH8Y50YQxWZ

Lancaster U History hiring 2 x 1-year posts: Lecturer in Global Environmental History - hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Lecturer in Modern British History - hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Stay tuned also for a permanent position in Late Medieval/Early Modern. #skyhistorians #envhist

🚨 Call for submissions! 🚨 The Progress in Environmental Geography editorial collective is seeking Original Research Articles and Themed Interventions on important topics and issues in environmental geography See below for details of our current and previous themed issues 👇

📢 Launch Day! We're delighted to celebrate the publication of Laurie Parsons's new book, 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘺: 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦, in the RGS-IBG Book Series. Read the full #OpenAccess book (LSE Press) ⬇️ https://ow.ly/5OkH50YV4O9

Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison New @urbanstudiesjournal.com article with a great team of authors We draw on research in six cities to discuss the changing relationship between housing, finance and the state journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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

Looking to enhance your geography teaching? Explore our Higher Education resources for innovative teaching approaches, practical guidance, and best practice 🔗👇 https://www.rgs.org/research/higher-education-resources?filter=teaching-7536

🗺️New in Geo🗺️ 'Hydrocartography in times of menacing waters: Xokleng mapping and the politics of floods in Southern Brazil' by Paul Schweizer et al. This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Mapping Climate Change Perceptions'. doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

New in Area: 'Doing geography amidst precarity' by @oliviamason.bsky.social This short piece is part of the ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

🌐 New paper in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌐 'Geography and Environmental Governance I: Governing with Environmental Data' by Marc Tadaki journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict is looking for Postdoc & Doc Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...

📣 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄🎉 A new paper by Dr Robin Finlay, Dr Matt Benwell and Professor Peter Hopkins (@peterhopkins.bsky.social) has been published in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙚𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡. Check it out! 🔓 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 – 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just a few days left to apply for our workshop on arts-based methods! 👋

Join the Society's Food Geographies Research Group for its next online coffee morning on Thursday 5 March ☕💻 These coffee mornings offer a space for postgraduate and early career researchers working in Food Geographies to share and discuss their research. Register here 👉https://ow.ly/tplZ50Y7H2H

🚀 LAUNCH EVENT - Justice in Critical Minerals Governance 🎟️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/launc... Hear from an expert panel on how justice is understood and experienced in communities affected by the extraction of critical minerals essential for clean energy technologies.

🗣️TODAY is the deadline for applications for DevGRG session sponsorship at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026! Find out more info here: developmentgeographiesrg.org/devgrg-sessi... 👋

Our deadline for applications for session sponsorship at the RGS conference is tomorrow❗ Follow the link below for details. 👌

Invitation to a workshop on Art-Based Methodologies in Geography: Conflict, Violence, Inequality and Justice. Deadline: Monday 2 March 4pm For further information , please contact Dr Ivana Bevilacqua at [email protected]. See link for info developmentgeographiesrg.org/art-based-me...

“That’s a frontier problem we’re working on now” = forecasting in a world of imaginative people. Tho’ more sophisticated than neoclassical IAMs, the problem with the promise of calculation and control is that social purpose is causative. We should choose to act. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interesting in arts-based methods? DevGRG is organising a participative workshop for PhDs and ECRs exploring these tools to understand conflict, violence, inequality, and justice. The application deadline is 2 March 2026 - see here for further details: developmentgeographiesrg.org/news

The call for sessions, papers and posters for AC2026 is still open! Those looking to present can submit abstracts to our open call for papers to take part in sessions convened by the conference planning committee. Find out more in our submission guidance 👇 https://ow.ly/zEns50Y3Iij

DevGRG is looking to sponsor sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026! Find out more info here: developmentgeographiesrg.org/devgrg-sessi... 👌

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DevGRG is looking to sponsor sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026! Find out more info here: developmentgeographiesrg.org/devgrg-sessi... 👌

Looking to present at this year's Annual International Conference? One route is to submit a proposal to an advertised session, with submissions welcome from all prospective delegates. View the list of advertised calls for papers 👇 https://ow.ly/TOov50XVsJi

The RGS Explore Grants offer £500-£5,000 to support the next generation of explorers and fieldworkers on original overseas expeditions that aim to advance geographical knowledge 🥾🌍 Applications close 15 February 🗓️ Find out more and apply 👇 https://bit.ly/49sTQB7 📷: Ruizhe Liu

How did ESG go from BlackRock's mainstream opportunity to a political battlefield? Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.

'Participatory Historical Geographies' Special Section - out now in Area! This collection, guest edited by @ruthslatter.bsky.social & @ed-brookes.bsky.social, reflects on the increasing use of participatory methods in historical geography. Read here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌎 'Geographies of Environmental Data 1' by Max Ritts journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @

📣Join the States of Precarity team for the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report. 📅 Wednesday 14 January 🎦 Online 👉 Sign up to attend: https://bit.ly/4rvQgP2 Check out the report before the launch: https://bit.ly/44HTUvg

Why doesn’t resettling people away from polluted urban rivers reduce risk for marginalised communities? In a new Geography Directions blog post, Christos Tsampoulatidis discusses the answer 📝 Check it out here 👇 https://ow.ly/6xyT50XAzcF

Save Geography at the University of Leicester - Sign the Petition! c.org/8DPVj5j8hj via @ukchange.bsky.social

New Special Section in Area: 'Gentle Geographies' edited by @mattmattfinn.bsky.social & @drjeffers.bsky.social This collection features five papers and an editorial introduction which reflect on ideas of 'gentleness' in research and practice. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

📢New Issue of The GJ!📢 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 September's Issue features the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section alongside 9 papers, 3 commentaries, and records of the 2025 RGS-IBG Medals and Awards ceremony. Take a look here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959...

🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌎 'The Radical Edge of More-Than-Human Political Ecology: A Clarification of Scope and Approach' by Valerio Donfrancesco journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social

New article out in Geo: Geography and Environment with an interdisciplinary dream team of coauthors: “From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources.” doi.org/10.1002/geo2... (open access)

✍️ Join editors from Development In Practice for tips on getting published 📅 9 Oct, 10am (UK) Get tips on ▪️ Pitching for a journal article ▪️ The peer review process ▪️ Common mistakes in journal submissions 👉 Find out more and register now: buff.ly/aXNAqtI

🌍📢 Call for Papers!! Urban Studies seeks submissions for a special issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice — exploring how cities confront the climate crisis, risk, & inequality. @urbanstudiesjournal.com @acuto.bsky.social  www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/callforpaper...

Hey climate experienced and climate curious political scientists: Send your hottest (!) climate paper to this @epssnet.bsky.social section 🔥🌱🔌 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Just a little reminder: Applications for the position as Professor for Urban and Regional Geography are still possible! Deadline is Sept. 28, 2025 Please share!

New in The GJ: '"We live in fear and face endless physical and emotional health problems": Perceived health implications of floods among urban households in Ghana' by Kabila Abass et al. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

📢 Call for Panels for our flagship event! ⛵ EADI / IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local solutions? 📅 29 June – 2 July 2026 📍 @iobua.bsky.social, University of Antwerp, Belgium ⏰ Deadline for submissions: 7 September 2025 ➡️ bit.ly/EADI-IOB-26-call

The latest event for @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social is now open for registration: 'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' will have three speakers: @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social ; @kaiheron.bsky.social and Jane Clarke. @mybisa.bsky.social www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

🚨The Development Geographies Research Group AGM is tomorrow! Email the address below for the meeting link. 🚨

📣 @crasshlive.bsky.social call for papers! Interdisciplinary perspectives on empire, colonialism, and anticolonialism This call for papers is aimed at presenters from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences at any stage of their career ⏰ Submit by 30 August 2025 🔗 t.co/OVtkuGQQqw