Heading home following two fantastic weeks of sharing ideas, convening sessions and discussing research at #RGSIBG2025 in B’ham and #BSPS2025 in Swansea alongside colleagues from @cpc-cg.bsky.social and @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Thank you to TGRG and Edward Elgar for the generous support at the #RGSIBG2025, and to the amazing session organisers for putting together three very insightful TGRG sessions. My deepest gratitude goes to @timschwanen.bsky.social and @debbiehopkins.bsky.social, whose wonderful guidance led me here 😊
At the waters edge - Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Creative activities collating ideas at the 'On the Sea Edge' workshop.
Spent Friday at RGS-IBG “On the Sea Edge,” two inspiring, creative workshops. In between, went hunting for a sea edge in landlocked Birmingham. Closest we got was a pond at the Botanical Gardens, but it did the trick. Thanks to Katharine, Ashita & Carolina for a brilliant space. #RGSIBG2025
Just getting started on my stitched contribution to RGS 2025. Is this another way of connecting #arts and #research, #PhysicalMobility and #DigitalMibility? Thank you for this beautiful initiative! #RGSIBG2025 #StitchAssemblyRGS25 🧵🪡
#mobileworlds #thirdcultures
Thank you to all participants in the Third Cultures of Mobilities Sessions at the #rgsibg2025 Conference!
For more, join the MobileWorlds Festival - in Bergen🇳🇴, Online👨🏽💻👩🏻💻, Porto🇵🇹! mobileworlds.online
#mobilities #mobileworlds #thirdcultures #breakurbox #imaginaries #hvl
Birmingham campus tower in the sun. No people are around and the green trees and plants look peaceful.
Hands reaching for differently dyed and shaped material which are scattered across a white table, holding scissors.
Hands holding differently dyed and shaped material which are scattered across a white table. There is also some thread and a needle on the table, and a small pair of scissors.
✨ The Stitch Assembly is live at #RGSIBG2025 in Birmingham!
Whether you’re here in person or joining from afar, we want you to feel part of our creative community.
Find your moment to stitch & share! #StitchAssemblyRGS25 💫
🧵 A few snapshots so far 👇
📢 The in-person Stitch Assembly is happening today at 11:10am (BST). I can’t wait to see some of you there 🎉 #RGSIBG2025 #StitchAssemblyRGS25 🧵🪡
✨ Looking forward to the #RGSIBG2025!
Join us for the Stitch Assembly 🧵
⏰ Thursday, 11:10 - 12:50 (BST)
📍 Muirhead Building, Room 109
A creative space to stitch, reflect & connect - in Birmingham and beyond! 💫 #Creativity #StitchAssemblyRGS25
We are delighted to have Elsa Noterman, Malene H. Jacobsen, James Esson, Elodie Negar Behzadi and Jay Todd as discussant, whose reflections will help push the conversation further.
If you’re at RGS-IBG, come join us tomorrow morning!
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#geosky #RGSIBG2025 #CriticalGeography
Together with Matej Blazek, I look forward to opening a collective discussion on the responsibilities and possibilities of critical geography today—how it challenges structures of power, connects with struggles for justice, and reimagines worlds otherwise.
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#geosky #RGSIBG2025 #CriticalGeography
Tomorrow morning at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference, we are hosting a panel on “What is, can be, and must be critical geography,” organized as part of @acme-geography.bsky.social
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#geosky #RGSIBG2025 #ACMEJournal #CriticalGeography
Positive outlook for this morning's TGRG sessions at the #RGSIBG2025 - join us for Current and Emerging Research in Transport (Muirhead 122) or Critical Geopolitics and Transport Geographies (Arts Building LR6)!
Promotional graphic for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025. Left side features a circular headshot of Dr Daniel Hammett. Text reads: “Meet the Editor session Dr Daniel Hammett, 27th Aug, Muirhead Building: Room 118 (In-person only), 13:10 – 14:25 BST.” Logos for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and Liverpool University Press are included. Right side shows the green cover of the International Development Planning Review journal. Background features a green and blue abstract network pattern.
Happening today at #RGSIBG2025 📢
Publishing research on development, planning & policy in the global South?
Meet Dr Daniel Hammett, co-editor of International Development Planning Review, to discuss your work.
📅 13:10–14:25 BST
📍 Muirhead 118
@rgsibg.bsky.social @hamstertowers.bsky.social
If you are attending the RGS-IBG annual conference, then why not go along to our 'Meet the Editor' session with Dr Daniel Hammett, co-editor of IDPR?
#RGSIBG2025
Promotional graphic for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025. Left side features a circular headshot of Dr Daniel Hammett. Text reads: “Meet the Editor session Dr Daniel Hammett, 27th Aug, Muirhead Building: Room 118 (In-person only), 13:10 – 14:25 BST.” Logos for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and Liverpool University Press are included. Right side shows the green cover of the International Development Planning Review journal. Background features a green and blue abstract network pattern.
At #RGSIBG2025? Publishing research on development, planning & policy in the global South?
Meet Dr Daniel Hammett, co-editor of International Development Planning Review, to discuss your work.
📅 27 Aug, 13:10–14:25 BST
📍 Muirhead 118 (In-person only)
@rgsibg.bsky.social @hamstertowers.bsky.social
Location: RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Birmingham UK, 26-29 August 2025 Session Title: Changing neighbourhoods, residential segregation and spatial inequalities Session sponsor: Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) Deadline for abstract submission: 4th March 2025 Session Organisers: Nissa Finney, Alice Butler-Warke, Rachel Wilkie, Qiong He, Jo Mhairi Hale, Elspeth Graham (University of St Andrews/Centre for Population Change Connecting Generations) and Lena Imeraj, Tuba Bircan, Feriha Nazda Saygi, Shabnam Khezri (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/SeLiS: Segregation through Life and Space) Instructions for prospective authors: We invite submissions of 15-minute in-person presentations. Please send a title, 200-word abstract, full author list (indicating the presenter(s) where appropriate), and your full contact details to Alice Butler-Warke (alrb1@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Rachel Wilkie (rzw1@st-andrews.ac.uk) and include “Changing neighbourhoods” in the subject line.
Abstract: Contemporary studies of segregation are “moving away from pre-defined spatial and social categories” (Ubarevičienė et al 2024: 10), engaging with neglected dimensions of segregation (e.g. Westra 2024 on wellbeing), using innovative methods (e.g. Petrović, Manley & van Ham, 2020), taking longitudinal and lifecourse approaches (e.g. Malmberg et al 2024), examining multiple domains and intersections (e.g. Wong and Das Gupta 2023), and developing comparative approaches (e.g.Haandrikman et al 2024, He, et al 2021). Recent literature emphasises increasing racial and ethnic diversity and decreasing segregation (e.g. Parisi et al 2025, Catney et al 2023), whilst age and socio-economic segregation are seen to have increased (e.g. Sabater & Finney 2023, Musterd et al 2016). Thus, the field is rich with theoretical, substantive and methodological questions, all the while allied by the conviction that ‘neighbourhood matters’ (Clark 2024). Details of contributions sought: This session is a forum for discussion of the latest theories of residential segregation/spatial inequalities/neighbourhood change; methodological innovations including creative and mixed methods; empirical findings on patterns, drivers, dynamics and consequences of segregation; and policy and practice dimensions including those relating to housing and community development. Papers that consider intersectional, multiscalar and lifecourse/longitudinal approaches; that use the 2021/22 round of census data collection from the UK, (linked) census data and register data from Belgium and similar or alternative population data elsewhere; and, to link with the broader conference theme, those that explore creative approaches to examining segregation, are particularly welcome.
🔔CFP for RGS-IBG 2025🔔
“Changing neighbourhoods, residential segregation and spatial inequalities”
Deadline for submission is 4th March
Email alrb1@st-andrews.ac.uk and rzw1@st-andrews.ac.uk
#CallForPapers #RGSIBG2025
CFP #RGSIBG25 Rethinking Categories Under Attack.
Please submit ideas by 5th March, 2025 to gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk
#RGSIBG2025 @openspaceou.bsky.social
We’re excited to share our CfP: „Emotional Geographies of Loss and Vulnerability: The Role of Emotions for the Transformation of Local Worlds“ for this year’s RGS-IBG Conference (26-29 Aug 2025).
Abstract submission by Feb 21, 2025
Further details: lokonet.de/cfp-rgs-2025
#CallForPapers #RGSIBG2025
Are you thinking of organising a Political Geography-themed session at the 2025 RGS-IBG Annual Conference? If so, get in touch - we're pleased to extend an invitation for PolGRG session sponsorship:
More info here: polgrg.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/p...
#RGSIBG2025 #RGSIBG25
