MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

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 research.geog@durham.ac.uk. Further info: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/funding/msca...

Why drilling in the North Sea won’t bring down UK energy prices Trump, Farage, the Tories and the right-wing press are all calling for it, but here's why experts say extracting oil and gas from the North Sea can't bring down UK energy prices

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...

40 years on: Chornobyl’s legacy and European environmental security YouTube video by Ukrainian Institute London

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... 🛰️

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

Responding to the oil and gas crisis in the UK with Gavin Bridge

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

Drilling for Oil and Gas Will not Reduce Bills or Deliver Energy Security. Here’s Why War in the Gulf and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz have been accompanied, with disappointing...

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...

Taphonomic impact on human remains in rapidly changing glacial environments: current insights and future directions - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Glaciers worldwide are undergoing accelerated down-wasting and retreat due to a warming climate, increasingly leading to the melt-out and exposure of...

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...

High Court quashes disposal licence for River Tees dredging Dr Simon Gibbon believes pollution disturbed by dredging is responsible for seal pup deaths.

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 👉www.durham.ac.uk/visit-us/schools/access-...

A river running through the bottom of a valley with flat land to its sides and treelined hills behind. Text on the image reads: "Simulating the risk of increased flooding in the Central Himalayas."

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)

Kangerlussuaq fjord

SE Greenland coast

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: In Search of the Land Without Evil (Ĩvĩ Maraëï) YouTube video by Penelope Anthias

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!

A map of the world showing swirling clouds above the continents of North America, South America, Africa and Europe. Text on the image reads: "Our Business, Geography, and Law experts contribute to the annual UN Climate Summit (COP)".

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:

Warm ocean water, not air temperature, drove massive Antarctic ice retreat after the last ice age  - British Antarctic Survey A new study concludes that warm ocean water was the primary driver of major West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat since the end of the last ice age 18,000 years ago.

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...

The ‘demographic timebomb’: a ticking clock, or has it detonated already? By Hannah Taylor (Durham University)

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

Territories of Life - University of Alberta Press Territories of Life highlights the multiplicity and heterogeneity of worlds and collectives, some labelled Indigenous, as they struggle to sustain their terr...

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.