Welcome
The School of Geography and the Environment is an intellectually vibrant, research-intensive academic department at the centre of British geography.
The School has:
research excellence in its core disciplines
one of the UK's leading
Undergraduate Honour Schools in Geography
a world-class
International Graduate School
Forthcoming Seminars - Weeks 4 and 5 Hilary Term 2010
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests Seminar Series
Week 4: 4.15pm, Tuesday 9 February 2010, H O Beckit Room (MSc Room 1), SoGE
Forest governance: the key challenge for REDD? Some lessons from Africa.
Simon Counsell, Executive Director, The Rainforest Foundation UK.
Research Seminar Series
Week 4: 4.30pm, Tuesday 9 February 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE
Low impact development in the city.
Dr Jenny Pickerill, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester, and Dr Larch Maxey, Lecturer, Swansea University.
Environmental Change Institute Seminar
Week 4: 11am, Wednesday 10 February 2010, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE
Business and sustainability: Insights from the inside.
Geoff Lye, Executive Chairman of SustainAbility, and Neil Golightly, Vice President Downstream Communications, Shell International.
Transport Studies Unit Seminar
Week 4: 5pm, Wednesday 10 February 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE
The carrot or the stick? The balance of rewards, punishment and cooperation to reduce transport energy demand.
Dr Jillian Anable, University of Aberdeen.
Research Seminar Series
Week 5: 4.30pm, Tuesday 16 February 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE
Neoliberalism and the urban poor: A view from Latin America.
Prof. Alan Gilbert, Department of Geography, University College London.
Transport Studies Unit Seminar
Week 5: 5pm, Wednesday 17 February 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE
No Seminar.
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests Seminar Series
Week 5: 4.15pm, Friday 19 February 2010, H O Beckit Room (MSc Room 1), SoGE
Efforts to minimise trade in illegal timber: what the numbers say.
James Hewitt, Freelance Consultant.
Forthcoming Events
15 - 16 April 2010, SoGE, Oxford
1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference: Integrating Research, Expanding Knowledge
This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together researchers with interest in desert and dryland people and environments. The conference goal is to stimulate debate and collaboration across the multiple academic departments that investigate, monitor, conserve and work in arid and semi-arid regions.
4 - 9 July 2010, University of Oxford
UNIQ Geography Summer School
A brand new summer school open to UK state school students currently in the lower sixth form (Year 12).
