After four days, 400+ sessions, discussions, receptions and Chair’s events, with over 2,000 geographers in attendance both online and remotely, our Annual Conference has come to a close. #rgsibg25 📷: Neill Bell-Shaw

Our Annual International Conference is coming up! 🌍 On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk 📷: University of Birmingham

The RGRG AGM will be held from 15:00-17:00 BST on Monday 1st September. The meeting will include a review of the RGRG’s activities in 2024/25, a look ahead at plans for 2025/26, and elections for vacant committee roles. More details on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/rural-geogra...

News, articles and reviews are welcome for the Summer 2025 edition of the RGRG newsletter. Overviews of events are welcome. Book reviews and contributions by PGRs and ECRs are most welcome and encouraged. Completed contributions should be emailed to Aimee ([email protected]) by Friday 18th July.

RGRG undergraduate dissertation prizes - Nominations are now open for this year’s prizes - the deadline is Tuesday 15th July. For more information see: www.rgs.org/research/res...

The International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering (AGLE) Annual Conference 2025 will be held from 5-8 November 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand. RGRG members interested in attending can find further details at agleconference2025.com

The deadline for the RGRG ESRS grant has been extended to Friday 30th May 2025. All ECRs (including PhD students) presenting a paper and/or convening a session at the ESRS are welcome to apply. More details are available here: rgrg.co.uk/our-grants

📢 New book: ‘Postcapitalist Countrysides’ @uclpress.bsky.social! From land commoning and rural social enterprises, to experimental food commons, Indigenous collectives & land art practices. And more! Co-edited with N Gallent, @markscott-ucd.bsky.social & A Purves uclpress.co.uk/book/postcapit…

Grim but essential reading. ‘after four years of sewage sludge spreading, microplastic levels in the fields it tested rose by up to 1,450%…’ with ‘little reduction in the soil of microplastics dumped 22 years ago: once they arrive, they don’t leave.’

"When things disappear from the landscape, then something also disappears from our identity.” Using oral histories to explore the links between cultural and biological diversity medium.com/people-natur...

New open access paper on farmers, globalization, populism and support for Bolsonaro in southern Brazil, with reflection on qualitative methods in electoral geography. Based Rural-Spatial-Justice and Global-Rural research: periodicos.uff.br/geographia/a...

101 Outdoor Arts are based at Greenham Common, Newbury, a former RAF base that once stationed 96 American nuclear missiles. In the 1980s, a group of West Berkshire commoners rose up in response, and made a disproportionate impact on the international arms race. merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2020/06...

We're new here so here's a quick introduction. We're a 5-year project selected by @erc.europa.eu & funded by @ukri.org on connections between rural discontent & disruptive politics through a spatial justice lens. Find out more about us here: ruralspatialjustice.substack.com/p/introducin...

RGRG sponsored sessions at the RGS Annual International Conference 2025 Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.

Rural Entrepreneurship Conference, Bangor, 3-5 June 2025 The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 5pm, Monday 10 March. More details are available here: www.bangor.ac.uk/events/22nd-...

European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, Riga, 7-11 July 2025 The abstract submission deadline has been extended to Friday 28 February. More details are available here: esrs2025.rsu.lv

RGRG sponsored sessions at the RGS Annual International Conference 2025 Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geogra.... Please check each session link on this page for more information.

PhD Opportunity: Carbon farming: co-creation for behavioural change within a supportive AKIS For more details on this PhD project please see: jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

PhD Opportunity: Food ethics and food system resilience in the industrial and small-scale egg sector For more details on this PhD project please see: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Call for Papers! I co-organized a session on rural geography in Global South Regions @rgsibg.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference, kindly sponsored by @ruralgrg.bsky.social . Abstract submission ddl: 28 Feb 2025. For details, pls see the cfp below. We sincerely welcome your contributions!

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of our Rural Geography Research Group @rgsibg.bsky.social, we're sharing an overview of the Group's history and work, published in the Journal of Rural Studies. Read the article for free until 6 Feb 2025. spkl.io/6011fXQ5t

@rgsibg.bsky.social RGS Annual International Conference 2025 We invite anyone interested in organising an RGRG-sponsored session to submit a proposal. Please email the following to Aimee Morse ([email protected]) and Martin Phillips ([email protected]) no later than Friday 14th February 2025.