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Shrinking ice sheets
Chris Clark has received NERC funding to investigate historical ice sheet retreat.
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Geography Student Photo Competition 2012
The department is very pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Geography Student Photo Competition.
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Peter is Olympic torchbearer
Peter Moss (L1 BSc Geography) will bear the Olympic torch next week as it makes its way towards the Olympic Stadium.
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André receives R Alison Hunter Prize
André Bisson has been awarded the R Alison Hunter Prize enabling him to engage in a "potentially life-changing" piece of work.
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Gold from ice?
Chris Clark has presented a keynote to the Irish Association for Economic Geology explaining how traces of valued minerals have been smeared across the landscape by ice flows during the last glaciation.
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Singing the Olympic celebrations
Ruth Hindmarsh (Level 2, BA Geography) has been selected to become a member of the 100-strong Youth Music Voices choir who will be performing throughout the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
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Geography celebrates successes
May has been a remarkable month for the Department of Geography, its students and staff.
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Richard Phillips joins the department
Professor Richard Phillips joined the department as Professor of Human Geography from 1 May.
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Postgraduate Student Wins RGS Dissertation Prize
Lauren Howes, an MA International Development student (2010-11), has won the RGS-IBG's Population Geography Research Group's Inaugural 'Bob Woods Postgraduate Dissertation Prize'.
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What a difference 12 months makes!
This time last year we were carrying a news item about the exceptionally dry spring; a year on and the situation has totally changed, with Sheffield receiving a record three times its normal rainfall.
Categorised under: Climate & Cryosphere -
On the breadline: Foodbanks
Hannah Lambie-Mumford, a PhD student in the Department appeared on a BBC Radio Scotland documentary on food banks at the weekend
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It's West Pokot Week
Once again we are hosting a week of events to raise money for educational facilities in remote communities of Kenya.
Categorised under: International Development -
Adam links inequality and crime
Findings from Dr Adam Whitworth's recent research on the links between inequality and crime across England have been published in Public Servant - the internal magazine of England's civil service.
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Development students help Mbara pre-school
Over the last three years our students have raised over £4,000 helping communities in a remote part of north-western Kenya.
Categorised under: International Development, Postgraduate study and Undergraduate study -
Andrew's TEDxMunich talk now available on TED website
Last year Andrew McGonigle gave a talk on his work in volcanology at TEDxMunich.
Categorised under: Environmental Reconstruction & Observation and Research