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  1. Santander

    Departmental success with Santander Research Mobility Awards

    Three members of Geography have been successful in this year’s Santander Research Mobility Awards for Sheffield staff and research students.

    Categorised under: Research, International and Staff
  2. Vanessa Lawrence

    Dr Vanessa Lawrence visits department

    Dr Vanessa Lawrence, CEO and Director General of Ordnance Survey and UN advisor visited the department last week.

    Categorised under: Alumni and Undergraduate study
  3. The Intern

    GeogSoc: the Intern reaches the final stage

    Over the past five weeks GeogSoc, in collaboration with SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise), have been running an Apprentice-style competition, with the final prize being a 4-week summer internship with the Geographical Association (GA) in 2013.

    Categorised under: Undergraduate study
  4. Mapping: underpinning the world's decision-making with Dr Vanessa Lawrence

    GeogSoc - the University of Sheffield Geography Society - have arranged a lecture by Dr Vanessa Lawrence, an alumni of the Department of Geography, now CEO and Director General of Ordnance Survey and a UN advisor.

    Categorised under: Alumni, Undergraduate study and Social & Spatial Inequalities
  5. California

    Drylands Fieldclass returns from California

    28 students and staff have just returned from the Mojave Desert, California from the 2012 GEO365 Dryland Environments Fieldclass

    Categorised under: Undergraduate study
  6. Athens

    Another successful Athens fieldclass

    Staff and students have just returned from another successful GEO358 Geography of Europe field class to Athens, Greece.

    Categorised under: Undergraduate study
  7. Ben Hennig

    Ben Hennig honoured with international award

    Dr Ben Hennig has received the prestigious German Study Award (Deutscher Studienpreis) 2012 from the Körber Foundation at an official ceremony at the Parliamentary Society in Berlin.

    Categorised under: Research, Social & Spatial Inequalities and Staff
  8. Department offers new Graduate Internship

    The University has launched a new Graduate Internship Scheme to support its Employability Strategy, and the department is offering one of the first of these paid, six-month Internships. 

    Categorised under: Alumni and Undergraduate study
  9. CHRONO

    Ice Sheets and Sea Level research project launched

    With twenty six researchers spread across eight universities, the British Geological Survey and British Antarctic Survey, the new £3.7 million BRITICE-CHRONO research project has now officially started

    Categorised under: Climate & Cryosphere, Research and Environmental Reconstruction & Observation
  10. Homelessness kills

    Dr Bethan Thomas has been commissioned by Crisis - the national charity for single homeless people, to investigate homeless mortality. The report shows homeless people die 30 years younger than the national average.

    Categorised under: Research and Social & Spatial Inequalities
  11. Welcome Walk

    Sun shines on Welcome Walk

    It was another glorious day for our annual Welcome Week Walk into the Peak District

    Categorised under: Undergraduate study
  12. Fluorescent dye

    Andrew Sole: quick profile

    Glaciologist Dr Andrew Sole joined the department over the summer after being awarded a Social Science Research Fellowship. Here he gives a brief outline of his career and talks about where his work here at Sheffield will be focussed.

    Categorised under: Climate & Cryosphere, Research, Ecosystem Dynamics & Biogeochemistry and Staff
  13. The Intern

    Internship competition starts soon

    We're very pleased to announce that the Geographical Association and the Department of Geography have agreed to another paid 4-week summer internship with the Geographical Association (GA) in 2013. 

    Categorised under: Undergraduate study
  14. Danny Dorling

    Danny becomes video star for the Festival of the Mind

    A specially created animation based on the work of Danny Dorling and Ben Hennig launched yesterday as part of Festival of the Mind showing how Sheffield is connected to the rest of the world more today than it has ever been.

    Categorised under: Research, Social & Spatial Inequalities and Staff
  15. EU flag

    'Mind the Gap' highlights education inequality across the EU

    A team of authors, led by the department's Dr Dimitris Ballas have just published a new European Commission report showing that where you live in Europe can strongly influence your education and prospects in life.

    Categorised under: Research and International