Geography at Leicester news

Browse news stories published by Geography at Leicester.

2021

• Space Park Leicester’s ESA Business Incubation Centre UK welcomes first recruits

2020

• AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD funding for UK/EU/International applicants
• Geography Undergraduate Prize Winners July 2020
• MSc GIS 2019 Dissertation Prize Winner

2019 

• New Students Union Sports Officer
• Summer Graduation
• William Sutton Prize
• Postgraduate Research Day
• Undergraduate Careers Day

2018

• Berivan Esen awarded Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship for 2018-2019
• The anti-gentrification posters sweeping through our cities

2017

• Leicester Urban Summer School
• Student life photography competition winner
• University of Leicester academics attend reception in Buckingham Palace
• City Series Lecture, From Planetary to Provincial Gentrification: Lessons for Leicester

2016

• A bird's-eye view of forests: what fresh insights can ecologists gain from airborne remote sensing?
• Lecture to launch the Centre for Critical and Creative Geographies
• Leicester academics to hold cooperation talks with Chinese Institutions over Space and Earth Observation Research
• New ESRC Doctoral Training Partnerships
• Undergraduate Interviewed on BBC Radio Jersey
• 72% of Leicester Geography 2016 graduates receive a 1st or a 2.1 degree
• STFC fully funded PhD opportunity
• Geographer to receive national award for promoting diversity in teaching
• Pastures, Conservation and Climate Action, Mongolia
• Book Launch: Planetary Gentrification

2015

• New Editor of 'Social and Cultural Geography'
• Professor Sue Page discusses peat fire solutions with Indonesian delegates
• Postgraduate Information Fair 2015
• Professor Sue Page has been honoured for her substantial ecological work all over the world
• 100% Student Satisfaction in NSS Survey
• Fieldwork videos on the 'Leicester Geography' YouTube channel
• Dr Kevin Tansey becomes the New Head of Geography
• Professor Sue Page invited to join Steering group review
• Invited talk in Rome
• Evolving GIScience: Programme and registration details now available
• Academic gentrification expertise in demand
• Evolving GIScience Workshop
• Leverhulme Lecture Series 2015
• Major project about young people in new communities rated ‘outstanding’ by ESRC