We're excited to announce a series of guest blog posts by our PGR prize winners from this year's #RGSIBG25 conference! ✍️ 📜
First post, first place, Yi Fan Liu @yifan-liu.bsky.social:
🚘Why does gender matter in car-sharing services? 🚗
Read her post here! transportgeography.org.uk/2025/10/20/p...
Our Annual International Conference wrapped a week ago! 💡
To see what happened when 2,100 geographers from around the world gathered together, have a look at our latest news: http://bit.ly/3I3WIuB We’re already getting excited for next year! #RGSIBG25
📷: Neill Bell-Shaw
A fantastic week at #RGSIBG25 conference in Birmingham! Coming from sociology, it was rewarding to find a community exploring related challenges with culture/human geographers.The stimulating discussions left me motivated and inspired.Thanks to @rgsibg.bsky.social and all the wonderful people I met!
So great to have been invited to share during a session at #RGSIBG25 about co-creating place-based climate adaptation action.
Business as usual does overwhelm... but it was uplifting to hear about the many methods being tested to challenge the status-quo.
We hope you all had a splendid time celebrating our field and the accomplishments of our colleagues around the world. See you all (and hopefully some new faces!) at next year’s Conference! #RGSIBG25
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
A view from the top of Green Heart square at the University of Birmingham. August 28th, 2025.
I could go on forever about the ideas that were exchanged over the last three days. I’ll just say that I leave #RGSIBG25 inspired, encouraged and fulfilled of having crossed paths with so much wonderful research! See you next year at the next @rgsibg.bsky.social conference!
Lecture room filled with people at the University of Birmingham.
And another smash hit yesterday was the overflowing first session of Time, Temporalities and Timescapes. There’s clearly a need for all of us who’re thinking about space in one way or another, to address the intersections of our research with this other very important axis in our lives… #RGSIBG25
A photo of the panelists and convenors. From left to right: Elsa Noterman, Marlene H. Jacobsen, Jay Todd, Matej Blazem, Sarah Klosterkamp, Negar-Eloise Behzadi and James Esson.
The panel “What Is Critical Geography, and What Can, and Must, It Be?” yesterday was so necessary to think about the futures we aspire to have - whilst having to address all sorts of emergencies now. Thank you @sklosterkamp.bsky.social for convening! #RGSIBG25
Forthcoming chapter by Estelle in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography 😉
This morning I got to hear more New and Emerging Research in the session sponsored @polgrg.bsky.social. I was particularly happy to hear the last presentation my amazing colleague Estelle will have given before submitting her thesis in a few weeks #RGSIBG25
The New and Emerging Research sessions were amazing, as always. If you’re reading this and you’re a student / early career on the fence about presenting… I highly encourage you to submit your work in one of these sessions next year. They’re such welcoming spaces! #RGSIBG25
As for the sessions… what can I say? I was blown away by the quality of the presentations I heard… Some of my personal highlights below👇🏽 #RGSIBG25
The fanzine display inside the marquee at the University of Birmingham #RGSIBG25
Throughout the conference I met up with many of my @qmul.bsky.social colleagues, but also managed to catch up with people like the newly minted Dr @saanchi.bsky.social by the marquee 🫶🏽. A very friendly atmosphere for networking, indeed #RGSIBG25
A view of the Bramall Music Building and the clock tower (aka Old Joe) at the University of Birmingham.
I used to live tweet conferences in The Other Place, and I wish I’d done it for @rgsibg.bsky.social here on Bluesky… but alas, here are some impressions from the past three days at the University of Birmingham #RGSIBG25
I had such a wonderful time this week at #RGSIBG25 at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social with friends & colleagues old and new. Loved exploring the city, and feeling energized by all the brilliant, creative, challenging, and inspiring discussions over the last few days.
At the #RGSIBG25 (@rgsibg.bsky.social) Conference?
Join us for our friendly and informal lunchtime social today between 13:10-14:25 in the Muirhead Building, room 112 - to meet other Political Geographers and hear more about the research group's activities! All welcome!🙌
Today is the final day of this year’s Annual Conference! ⬇️
Our agenda focuses on our shared futures, energy justice, displacement and migration, geographies of loneliness, coastal geographies, and much more. Check the agenda for our last day: bit.ly/45WpHtm #RGSIBG25
Photo of a sculpture resembling an architectural model. Figures are shown repairing the roof of a house built among rubble. Vegetables grow in a simple polytunnel
At the #RGSIBG25? Staying through to the very end? Why not join us to talk about speculative ecologies? TLB seminar room 202 (and online), 16:50 - 18:30
Great to share my research on the power of Call the Midwife and popular culture at this year’s RGS conference in Birmingham. So pleased to get a copy of ‘The Promise of Cultural Geography’ too 📚 #RGSIBG25
Today I presented at the #RGSIBG25 conference in the very first panel on asexual geographies! Such an honour to share my work alongside brilliant (and lovely!) colleagues and contribute to making space for asexuality within geography. Really excited to see what’s coming next!!! #asexualgeographies
This afternoon, our Chair also hosted a discussion with local artists on the BLK Art Group, one of the West Midlands’ most important homegrown cultural movements. We hope to see you tomorrow for our final day! #RGSIBG25
The PGR prizes for best postgraduate transport geography papers at the #RGSIBG25 go to Yi Fan Liu (first place), Vanessa Ternes and Lotte Luykx (runners up). They have each won £100 to spend on academic literature, thanks to Edward Elgar!
#RGSIBG25 Thank you to Prof Lucy Budd for her fantastic lecture as part of our annual series. Now to announce our awards!
On the second full day of our Annual Conference, we delved into health inequalities, injustice and resistance, violence and political discontent, care and vulnerability, and emerging urban and transport infrastructure. #RGSIBG25
Another super #RGSIBG25 session: 'Art-science collaborations in the geosciences' organised by @hywelgriffiths.bsky.social & Caroline Clason. Lots of ideas to take away, things to think about for both research & teaching. And @dominoajones.bsky.social 's comics are fabulous!
We have a day of exciting events today, don't miss out!
🔹Our AGM at 13:10 is a chance to hear from the committee & details of our upcoming election
🔹Our inaugural lecture from @ahjackman.bsky.social on her fascinating research
🔹And many more DGRG sponsored sessions throughout the day
#RGSIBG25
Good morning! 🌞 Another packed day at #RGSIBG25 for the TGRG. Join us later today for our annual keynote lecture, delivered this year by Prof Lucy Budd. That's in Teaching and Learning, room 102, 16.50 - and we'll be going on to a reception at Cuore, in front of Muirhead Tower, from 18.45 onwards!🍷🍻
