A new report developed with SoGE researchers, Dr Ariell Ahearn and Elizabeth Hampstead, in collaboration with the UN, addresses urgent challenges faced by Mobile Indigenous Peoples. It focuses on legal recognition, land rights, and mobility, responding to demands from the Dana+20 Manifesto.
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Gregory M Thaler Awarded International Science Prize by HGBS for Book ‘Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World’
The Hans Günter Brauch Foundation for Peace and Ecology in the Anthropocene (HGBS) has announced that Associate Professor Gregory M. Thaler, who recently joined the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford, is one of the recipients of its prestigious International Science Prize.
New report spotlights urgent issues faced by mobile indigenous populations
A new report developed with SoGE researchers, Dr Ariell Ahearn and Elizabeth Hampstead, in collaboration with the UN, addresses urgent challenges faced by Mobile Indigenous Peoples. It focuses on legal recognition, land rights, and mobility, responding to demands from the Dana+20 Manifesto.
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Oxford researchers record wettest month in 250 years
Oxford University researchers have recorded the wettest month in Oxford in 250 years at the School's Radcliffe Meteorological Station. Data from the station this week confirmed that September 2024 saw an extraordinary 193.3 mm of rainfall, making it Oxford’s wettest month since 1774 and the second wettest of any month since rainfall records began in 1767.
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Gregory M Thaler Awarded International Science Prize by HGBS for Book ‘Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World’
The Hans Günter Brauch Foundation for Peace and Ecology in the Anthropocene (HGBS) has announced that Associate Professor Gregory M. Thaler, who recently joined the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford, is one of the recipients of its prestigious International Science Prize.
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Over 40% of major companies, cities and regions lack emission reduction targets, shows new report
As the climate crisis accelerates, the Net Zero Stocktake 2024 identifies a commitment gap across cities, states and regions, which is holding back the necessary economy-wide transition. The Net Zero Tracker’s annual assessment of the intent and integrity of global climate commitments, shows only a modest increase in net zero targets set by subnational governments (states and regions, and cities) in the past year.
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Experts predicted more hurricanes in the Caribbean this summer – where are the ‘missing’ storms?
In 2024, experts predicted an unusually active hurricane season due to warm seas, but by mid-September, only seven storms were named. Unprecedented Saharan rainfall and shifting African easterly waves reduced storm formation. Francesca Morris, Postdoctoral Researcher in Convective-Scale Modelling in the School of Geography and the Environment, explores the reasons behind this unexpected lull.
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Serious play for serious researchers
On July 1st, the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) held a Lego Serious Play (LSP) workshop aimed at fostering collaboration among staff and students conducting research in Oxfordshire. Facilitated by games-based learning expert Sarah LeFevre, participants used LSP to explore research synergies, encourage creative thinking, and promote interdisciplinary collaboration. The workshop allowed researchers to step outside their routines, connect with others, and consider novel approaches. Feedback showed high satisfaction, with participants finding the workshop valuable for networking and expressing interest in applying the LSP methodology themselves.
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Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today
Children’s lives in the UK are changing. They are becoming shorter in height. More of them are going hungry than they were a few years ago. Recently, more have died each year than they did a few years ago. Increased poverty, more destitution and the effects of ongoing austerity are the clear culprits. Prof Danny Dorling explores why this has happened to our children in an article for The Conversation.
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Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate - but they carry on
An overwhelming majority of survey respondents at a top research university agree that air travel contributes to climate change, but many - especially professors and PhD students - often fly to conferences anyway, according to a study, co-authored by Dr Debbie Hopkins and Prof Tim Schwanen, published last month in Global Environmental Change. The study was featured in an article in Nature in September.
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I was picked for Team GB. Then long Covid dashed my Olympic dream
In a recent article in The Times, Oonagh Cousins, a researcher at the School of Geography and the Environment, shares her experience of contracting long Covid and how it has affected her life, including losing the chance to compete in the Olympics. Cousins emphasises the need for more research into long Covid and chronic illnesses like ME.
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The Money in Motherhood: Selling Intimate Data in Fertility and Pregnancy Apps
Fertility and pregnancy tracking apps, popular with millions worldwide, collect sensitive data on users, raising privacy concerns, especially after Roe v. Wade's reversal. Dr. Josie Hamper's research highlights how these apps commercialise pre-motherhood, driving consumer culture. Users often trade their intimate data for insights, accepting targeted ads and data sales as a norm.
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