Could seabirds hold clues to our changing climate? 🐦 Solidified snow petrel stomach oil, preserved in Antarctic nests for thousands of years, is helping our colleague Erin McClymont trace how life adapted to past climate shifts & what it may mean for our planet’s future erc.europa.eu/projects-sta...

Our colleague @jeffwarburton.bsky.social has, together with Jamie Woodward and Stephen Tooth, co-authored a piece just published in The Conversation entitled 'Dam disasters of the 1920s made reservoirs safer – now the climate crisis is increasing risk again' theconversation.com/dam-disaster...

We have alumni careers talks for students coming up on November 20th. The event begins at 5pm with a drinks & cake reception & poster display from placement year students in the Manley Room (IHRR, W311). The careers talks take place in room W309 from 5.30pm. Book here forms.office.com/e/8K2qQdqpqD

A great few days of outreach activity at the Celebrate Science event at Locomotion in Shildon, County Durham. Pictured here are Lauren Pretorius and @sealevelchange.bsky.social who kindly staffed our augmented reality sand box.

Congratulations to our colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis on the publication of his co-authored article with @mikkojorge.bsky.social in @natureandspace.bsky.social entitled “Colonial pyrotechniques in Palestine: Arboricide and fiery dispossessions” which is now available at: doi.org/10.1177/2514...

Are you thinking of enrolling on a Masters programme? Look no further! We have two suites (with a choice of three programmes in each) - one on Risk and (all new for 2026) one on Sustainable Futures. For more information please visit our website: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

📣 We are advertising a range of glaciology/polar PhD projects @geogdurham.bsky.social that are funded by @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. ❄️ For more information on eligibility, support for under-represented groups, and how to apply, visit durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/opportunities/

Today I co-hosted @geogdurham.bsky.social’s first event for the newly founded Queer and Trans Thematic Group. We shared questions, insights and potential opportunities for using queer and trans theorising within our own research and produced some wonderful collaborative mind maps (as shown below)!

Durham Geography @geogdurham.bsky.social first year BSc field trip (Trip One) to Upper Teesdale complete. Great students and staff in an amazing landscape 🙂 Thanks to the local landowners and Weardale Adventure Centre for a wonderful place to stay 😊

Our colleague @penelopeanthias.bsky.social will be speaking next month @camunigeography.bsky.social on the topic of 'Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bolivia':

Congratulations Levina! 🎉

Interested in sustainability or risk? Join our Insights session with Prof. Sarah Woodroffe on Tuesday Oct 14th @ 11am to discover ✅ Our dynamic academic environment ✅ Career paths that make a global impact ✅ Postgraduate programmes designed for change-makers durhamuni.eventsair.com/postgraduate...

Just out paper which might be of interest to those who work on Urban Geograpy, Geographies of Home, and affective thinking (especially ambivalence). It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Congratulations to Olivia Griffin Roach who has been announced as the joint winner of the 2025 Social & Cultural Geography Research Group dissertation prize for her project 'Beyond the Bump: Understanding How Women Experience and Navigate Pregnancy & Early Motherhood in the Financial Service Sector'

Climate Ecologies, a collaboration involving our colleague Professor Andrew Baldwin, responds to the critical questions raised by the concept of the Panicocene, as an era where climate change & migration are framed in narratives of anxiety & emergency: research.hud.ac.uk/art-design/t...

Professor Hannah Cloke OBE is an internationally recognised hydrologist specialising in floods, climate extremes, and disaster risk reduction. She works with news media and the entertainment industry on climate, water and environmental issues.

On October 20th & 21st @durham.ac.uk will host a series of webinars aimed at prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students. This includes sessions on funding, careers, the Colleges and on applying to Durham. For further information and to book a place: durhamuni.eventsair.com/discover-dur...

Wonderful week spent with @geogdurham.bsky.social students on the Arctic fieldtrip learning about Arctic environments, governance, and politics. Great enthusiasm all around! Students even led some roadside yoga and rounders when the bus broke down. Some pretty good northern lights too!

Welcome to the first day of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life. We look forward to working with you and hope that you will watch this space for recruitment, events, & more @leverhulme.ac.uk #AI #MachineLearning #SocialSciences #Humanities

RiscBal welcomed @geogdurham.bsky.social students last week with two field trips: 1. Exploring the Flash-Flood Early Warning System in the Balearic Islands at Ca n’Amer River catchment. 2. Learning about ecogeomorphic modelling in Mediterranean catchments at Sa Font de la Vila River catchment.

Fantastic news, congratulations Colin from all @geogdurham.bsky.social

Book launch workshop event with our colleagues @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @ajsecor.bsky.social entitled 'The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis'. The event in London, also involving Will Davies & Jeremy Gilbert, is on Tuesday November 25th: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

International students can apply for a UK Chevening Fellowship to study on one of our 1-year Taught Postgraduate courses: MA Climate, Risk and Society MSc Climate, Risk and Society MSc Environmental Hazards and Risk MA Risk, Security and Politics Deadline for applications to Chevening is Oct 7.

The Geographical Magazine of the RGS-IBG has just published a supplement on choosing University Geography courses. Two of the five 'case study' students are from Durham - Mia Yearwood and Cameron Powell. They provide some valuable insights on what its like to study on our BA and BSc programmes.

Warm congratulations to Emily Williams who has won the 2025 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize awarded by the RGS-IBG Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group. Emily's dissertation was entitled 'A Feminist Geographical Exploration of the Everyday Lives of People with Endometriosis'.

Our Department has been ranked #1 for Geography and Environmental Science in the Times Higher and Sunday Times rankings for 2026. This includes the highest scores for research and teaching quality (68.8 and 90.9 respectively) and a score of 94.4 for graduate prospects.

2) 'Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations' In her contribution, @ayanassar.bsky.social considers how different worlds and regions are imagined in the non-west from the vantage point of Egypt. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

We are delighted to announce the 2025 History and Philosophy of Geography undergraduate dissertation prize winner: Henry Blake, @geogdurham.bsky.social, for his dissertation Foreclosed Futures: Hope, Precarity, and Ambivalence in Contemporary Cornwall. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4jjc4dp6 #geosky

Warm congratulations to Dylan Tweats, who has been awarded First Prize in the @britishhydrosoc.bsky.social Undergraduate Dissertation Award 2025.

Congratulations to our recent graduate Rachel Garlake-Louw who has received an Honourable Mention from the @energygeography.bsky.social in their 2025 undergraduate dissertation competition.

Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...

Images from field teaching at Skaftafellsjökull in Iceland. With our students are @mikebentley.bsky.social, Dave Roberts & @hollyjenk.bsky.social. The group were followed by farm dog Millie, who couldn't get enough of moraine limits, kame terraces, subglacial deformation & crevasse-squeeze.

Tomorrow is shaping up to be a fantastic day. I'll be contributing a short talk on BigTech FinTech and the New Monopolies of Everyday Money and Finance

Job opportunity - Postdoctoral Research Associate working alongside @crangma.bsky.social - durham.taleo.net/careersectio... closing date 11.59pm, 7th October 2025

Geoengineering ideas to tackle #climate breakdown at the poles will not help and could harm, according to new research involving Professor Mike Bentley @mikebentley.bsky.social and Professor Chris Stokes of @geogdurham.bsky.social. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

One of our students, James Manson, wrote this blog post for The Durham Student about his experience of undertaking field research in the Lake District as part of his second year physical geography module 'Scientific Research': durham-student.org/field-trip-t...

A chance to see the photographs of Easington 1987-1991 from @geogdurham.bsky.social photographer Michele Allan at the Easington Social Welfare Centre, September 8th-12th, 6pm-9pm.

These comments build on a recent @theconversation.com piece looking at how the UK has become reliant on hotels to accommodate asylum seekers and what can be done to fix a failing accommodation system: theconversation.com/how-the-uk-b...

I was on BBC’s AntiSocial at the end of last week discussing the growth of asylum hotels in Britain, the history of dispersal, and the importance of community-based housing for asylum seekers (at the 40min mark) @geogdurham.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

⏱️ New paper posted in Progress in Environmental Geography ⏱️ 'Troubling times: Climate crisis, future geographies and queer theory' by Amy Robson journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @amyrobson.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social

Many congratulations from the Geographical Association to all the A level geography students getting their results today. The GA sends it best wishes to all the young people getting their results today and we hope you will ‘take your geography with you... - Steve Brace Chief Executive

A very warm welcome Francis, its great to have you with us!

Warm congratulations to our colleague Ian Evans, to whom the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) has awarded its highest honour, Honorary Fellowship, in recognition of his outstanding services to geomorphology & the IAG. Read more on Ian's work here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/i-s-ev...

Zippy Kariuki, a student on our MA Climate, Risk & Society programme, took part in the Commonwealth Scholars Parliamentary Reception, discussing climate change & heritage with MPs and Lords. Zippy asked how policymakers can better include community voices & indigenous knowledge in climate debates.

Back in January I had the honour of discussing Aslı Zengin’s powerful and generous book ‘Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World’. @geogdurham.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social I’ve now published a summary of my comments: doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2531713

The UK Alliance for Disaster Research conference will take place 4-5 September 2025. It will be hosted by the @ihrr.bsky.social at Durham Uni and is titled “Pathways to Practice and Resilience: UK Interdisciplinary Hazard and Disaster Research on the National and Global Stage”: tinyurl.com/62mfc7pw

Great work by our colleagues Stewart Jamieson and Guy Paxman: "We have been using satellite data to map an ancient river landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet:. The landscape has been frozen in time for up to 34 million years." ⚒️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our @geogdurham.bsky.social researchers, led by @polarguy.bsky.social, have discovered the remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across #EastAntarctica – and they could help predictions of future loss from the ice sheet 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

A rather lovely collection from our department photographer @geogdurham.bsky.social : Michele Allan — The North East 1987–1991 www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/p/miche...

It was my greatest pleasure to graduate with a PhD from @geogdurham.bsky.social earlier this week! Marking a decade since I started out as a curious undergrad there, Durham was not only a place that taught me the intricacies of Geography, but also where I met some of the brightest and kindest... 1/2