Last week we welcomed our students, their family and friends to the Department on a sunny graduation day to celebrate their wonderful achievements. On behalf of everyone @geogdurham we wish you all the very best in the next steps in your journey!

Registration is now open for the UK Antarctic Science meeting which will be hosted by Durham Geography in September. The deadline for registration and abstract submissions is Monday 27th July. Link for both processes are below. Conference link: lnkd.in/etW9fmMM

Our colleague @benandersongeog.bsky.social has just published this piece in 'The Conversation': 'The politics of feeling: why did ‘boring’ prime minister Keir Starmer provoke such visceral reactions?': theconversation.com/the-politics...

Yesterday we gathered to celebrate our incredible graduates. After years of lectures, tutorials, & field trips, watching our students graduate is always the highlight of our year. We are so proud of everything this cohort has achieved and can't wait to see the impact they make on the world next.

Congratulations to Professor Karen Lai who has won the award for ‘Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision’ in Durham University’s annual Teaching and Learning Awards. Fantastic news and well done Karen!' 🎉🍾

Our warmest congratulations to all our graduating students today in the class of 2026. We wanted to acknowledge all your hard work over the past three years, to celebrate your wonderful achievements and to wish you all the very best in your future endeavours! 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓🎉🍾🙌

We're advancing understanding of the Arctic, and how we might better protect this crucial part of our planet. The Arctic was the subject of our latest Chancellor-in-Conversation event 👉 tinyurl.com/muvces6t @durhamanthropology.bsky.social, @geogdurham.bsky.social, @durhamglaciology.bsky.social

New research has found why powerful seabed flows can be so damaging to internet cables on the ocean floor. An international team, including Matthieu Cartigny @geogdurham.bsky.social, offers a framework for better predicting these events and protecting infrastructure. 🔗 Read more: brnw.ch/21x3zhE

Abstract submission is open for the Eighth Sea Level & Coastal Change (SLaCC) meeting, hosted by Durham Geography, 9th-10th September 2026. The meeting is free to attend for Early Career Scientists (who still need to register). Abstract submission deadline is 7th August, details tinyurl.com/5ym9rkzz

Ahead of COP31 later this year, our colleague Professor Chris Stokes is at the mid-year UN Climate Change conference in Bonn, discussing how the latest science can feed into the negotiations.

We are looking forward to welcoming Calum Mitchell (Aarhus University) to the Department on Wednesday June 24th. Calum will speak on 'Digital Natures: prefiguration & the aesthetic regimes of nature recovery', details here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Researchers have identified a vast fan-shaped basin system hidden beneath Antarctica's ice, reshaping understanding of its geological past. Involving @polarguy.bsky.social from our @geogdurham.bsky.social and led by University of Genoa – read more about this work 🧊 👉 bit.ly/4v1gWsk

Researchers from our Geography Department have uncovered new insights into how meltwater drains through cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet. Learn more: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... #ClimateChange

Durham Geography PhD student Jay Sinclair has helped to instal the first air quality monitor for a new community monitoring project in Teesside. Funded by @rgs.org, the study tracks how heavy industry and new green projects affect health, stress, and sleep. Exciting work on environmental justice! 🌍💨

We are really looking forward to welcoming Professor Joseph Weiss to the Department on June 11th. Joseph's presentation is entitled 'Irreconcilable: Indigeneity and the Violence of Colonial Erasure in Contemporary Canada'. Further details in the attached poster and below, all welcome.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming Professor Adam Hanieh (SOAS) to the Department on June 2nd for his talk on 'Greening the Gulf? Renewables, Fossil Capitalism, and the ‘East-East’ Axis of World Energy'. Details in the attached poster, all welcome.

🦫🦫 Our new paper on urban #rewilding with #beavers is out now in EPE! We characterise the Ealing Beaver Project in London as a form of prefigurative urban ecological politics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jlorimer.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Once a Durham Geographer, always a Durham Geographer! 🌍We’ve caught up with our alumni to hear about their life after Durham and how they’re tackling real-world challenges. Watch the full interview series here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... 🎓📍#DurhamUniversity #Geography #Alumni #Careers

Our colleague @jonnyjjt.bsky.social is quoted in this piece published yesterday by the BBC on the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. The article looks at what the disaster has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Our article was re-published today, on the 40th anniversary of the #Chornobyl nuclear catastrophe, in Ukrainian in Suspilne Kultura We explore Polissyan naturecultures in the work of Maria Prymachenko before and after #Chornobyl suspilne.media/culture/1297... @geogdurham.bsky.social

The 2026 #MSCA Postdoctoral call is open. 🚀 What: 12–24 months of funded research 🎓 Who: PhD holders (all nationalities) ⌛ Deadline: 9 Sept 2026 Start planning your proposal with us now! 🏰Queries to [email protected]. Further info: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/funding/msca...

Our colleague Gavin Bridge is quoted a number of times in this piece just published in The Independent about extracting oil and gas from the North Sea: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Last week, I was honoured to discuss Chornobyl's environmental and political legacies with fantastic colleagues as we approach the 40th anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe A recording is available, featuring Serhii Plokhy, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, and Sasha Dovzhyk www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrz...

Check out the new issue of Routes on young people and rewilding 👇 Really pleased to bring this one to fruition with the amazing crew at Youngwilders!

Guest Lecture, co-organised by our Geographies of Life research cluster: 'Curating Learning Journeys - Transformational Experiences in the Classroom', Dr Erzsébet Strausz, Central European University, Vienna. Thursday, 30th April 2026, 13.00-14.30, room PCL 054 (Palatine Centre)

📢 @geogdurham.bsky.social, a world-leading department for geographical research and education at @durham.ac.uk, is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Physical Geography with expertise in Earth Observation... 🛰️ 1/3

Gavin has also co-authored this letter to The Times on the subject: d2e1qxpsswcpgz.cloudfront.net/uploads/2026...

In the latest episode of the @ukerc.bsky.social podcast, our colleague Gavin Bridge talks about how the UK can navigate the rising prices and potential shortage of oil and gas caused by the war in Iran: open.spotify.com/episode/36OV...

We are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Human Geography, with expertise in Health Geography (closing May 10th). Health geography is broadly defined here - see examples in the text in the link.

We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Human Geography with expertise in the field of Health Geography that will complement and extend current work in our Geographies of Life research cluster. Application deadline May 10th, further details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Physical Geography who who has expertise in the field of Earth Observation. Application deadline 10th May, with a possible start date of 1st October. Further details can be found here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Wrapping up field projects on the second year Durham University BSc field course to the Northern Lake District. Hail, sun and lots of great data 🙂 @geogdurham.bsky.social

Durham Geography has reached its highest-ever position in the QS World University Rankings 2026—rising to 6th globally (from 11th in 2025). Thank you to our staff, students, alumni, and partners worldwide who have helped make this possible.

Wet rainy day in the NW Highlands today. Lucky to get an hour of sunshine on Mull late afternoon. Hope the L2 trips to Skye and the Lake District have stayed dry @geogdurham.bsky.social @jeffwarburton.bsky.social

Our colleague Gavin Bridge has co-written a piece on the implications of the gulf energy crisis for the North Sea (and how it does not mean we should drill for oil and gas): ukerc.ac.uk/news/drillin...

New paper out today from Durham Glaciology member Lauren Gill! Lauren's interdisciplinary PhD is exploring how processes and change in glacial environments impact the preservation and analysis of human remains. ❄️🌡️🦴 @geogdurham.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dr Simon Gibbon from the NEMRG on the BBC news tonight. We will continue to explore the impacts of redistributing polluted sediment on the Tees ecosystems www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @geogdurham.bsky.social @bbclooknorth.bsky.social

🌎 World Water Day 2026: Water and Gender 💧 ONE WEEK TO GO! How does gender shape water access, governance, cooperation and sustainability worldwide? Join us online on Monday 23rd March for this event hosted by @ihrr.bsky.social & @geogdurham.bsky.social at @durham.ac.uk. @un-water.bsky.social 🧵👇

We’re proud to support the STEP programme @durham.ac.uk, helping Year 12 Black-heritage students explore university life, take part in academic taster sessions, develop skills & receive mentoring on applications. Apply by April 10 👉https://www.durham.ac.uk/visit-us/schools/access-engagement/step/

Did you know that @geogdurham.bsky.social research could help inform local flood hazard management in the Central Himalayas? Researchers simulated flood risk in the region and found the size of extreme floods could increase by between 73% and 84% by the end of this century 👉 tinyurl.com/36rdytz4

I'm looking foward to heading to Paris next week to celebrate the World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day 2026, with events taking place online and in-person at UNESCO HQ. I'll be speaking about resource security in a side event on 'Cryosphere in Crisis: Pathways for a Safe and Just Future' (1/3)

Down at the APPG Polar Regions meeting at Westminster yesterday to discuss UK research in Greenland. Thanks to Kelly Hogan and George Freeman MP for the invite. @geogdurham.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

On March 17th we are hosting a launch event in the Department for @penelopeanthias.bsky.social film Urukurenda: In Search of the Land Without Evil (Ĩvĩ Maraëï). The film was made with residents of Urukurenda in support of their struggle to gain legal personhood as a Guaraní Indigenous community.

Urukurenda is available open access (free) with a choice of English or Spanish subtitles: youtube.com/watch?v=6OsK... (ENG SUBS) youtube.com/watch?v=62lX... (ESP SUBS). Feel free to make use of it for teaching! Please share!

Did you know that we've contributed expertise on climate science, national climate targets, ocean protection, tipping points, gender and human rights at the UN Climate Summit (COP)? Our COP team includes experts from our Law and Business schools, and @geogdurham.bsky.social 👉 tinyurl.com/59x3c2a2

Professor Cheryl McEwan's new research project 'Plants out of place: entanglements with ‘invasive weeds’ in the Anthropocene' is featured in the latest Leverhulme Trust newsletter, in which she outlines its aims, scope and methods:

Congratulations to our colleagues @erinmcclimate.bsky.social and Charlotte Spencer-Jones on the publication of their co-authored article in Nature Communications ‘Ocean heat forced West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat after the Last Glacial Maximum’: www.bas.ac.uk/news/warm-oc...

In 'The ‘demographic timebomb’: a ticking clock, or has it detonated already?', Hannah Taylor of Durham University explores the causes, consequences, and policy responses to global population ageing routesjournal.org/2026/01/27/t... @durham.ac.uk @geogdurham.bsky.social

New publication! Territories of Life: Equivocations, Entanglements, Endurances, co-edited by Mario Blaser, Sylvie Poirier and myself ualbertapress.ca/978177212825...

New BBC article on the families forced to move hundreds of miles for a home - here, from London to County Durham 🗞️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This week I was @geogdurham.bsky.social talking about my new book + the unhoming and forced migrations so synonymous with life in England today.