Dr Linda Speight featured on Radio 4's You and Yours, discussing flood risk decision-making. Listen from 29:53 or full segment from 22:53.
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Feedbacks upon feedbacks: Rock weathering and the climate - Ars Technica
Research co-authored by Professor Bob Hilton suggesting sedimentary rock weathering can be a positive carbon cycle feedback is featured in Ars Technica.
How we adapt to heatwaves is shaped by our age, health, employment, housing, and race.
New research by SoGE's Shiv G.Yücel reveals variation in how people are able to adapt their travel behaviour to heatwaves in England.
England’s sewage spills: why citizen scientists want to test for pollution themselves
Thousands of volunteers across England now regularly take out their own testing kits to study the levels of pollution in rivers and the sea. In an article for The Conversation, Hope Steadman, DPhil candidate at the School of Geography and the Environment, explores why citizen water testing has become one of the most visible responses to England’s pollution scandals. (Image (c) Hope Steadman).
Dr Steve Smith awarded MBE in King's Birthday Honours
Dr Steve Smith, Arnell Associate Professor of Greenhouse Gas Removal at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, has been appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Climate Science.
Revealed: The cities where people are most at risk from extreme heat as El Nino arrives – including several major tourist destinations - Nethmi Jayaratne Kariyawasam
Research on heatwave risks in 220 major cities, led by SoGE DPhil Nethmi Jayaratne Kariyawasam, has analysed 205 global cities to determine where people are most at risk from rising global temperatures, with findings featured in media outlets globally.
Dr Yung Au awarded International Communications Association prize
Congratulations to Dr Yung Au, who has been awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award 2026 by the Activism, Communication & Social Justice Division of the International Communications Association (ICA).
How can running change personal and imaginative geographies of a place?
In this piece Josie Morgan, 1st Year Geography student and writer for the SoGE Student Writers Group, examines the ways running can change people's perceptions of and relationships with place, speaking from her own personal experiences and drawing on interviews with people running her local Parkrun in North Wales.
Beating the heat - SoGE study featured in The Guardian
A study led by SoGE DPhil Shiv G Yücel used smartphone data to show how we seek refuge in extreme heat, and why social inequalities leave some vulnerable.
Dr Amber Murrey receives RGS-IBG's 2026 Taylor and Francis Award
Dr Murrey has received the 2026 Taylor and Francis Award by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in recognition of her excellence in the promotion and practice of teaching and learning in higher education.
Prof Jennie Middleton awarded prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Professor Jennie Middleton, Associate Professor in Human Geography at the Transport Studies Unit, has been awarded a highly competitive British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to support an innovative research project exploring the experiences of neurodivergent people navigating urban environments on foot.