SoGE DPhil student Camila Ramos, based in the TSU, has been named as one of 2026's Remarkable Voices in Transport by the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI).
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Dr Ariell Ahearn and Dr Natasha Wallum win Teaching Excellence Awards
The University of Oxford Social Sciences Division's annual Teaching Excellence Awards recognise outstanding contributions to teaching and learning and the academic development of students.
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SoGE researchers part of major new healthy diets research programme at major new research and engagement programme at the University of Oxford
The Chellaram Programme for Healthy and Sustainable Diets will bring together researchers across the University of Oxford, including Professor Jamie Lorimer and the Smith School's Dr Michael Clark.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Researchers and peer call for new UK approach to fungal antimicrobial resistance
The UK needs new policies to tackle the threat of fungal antimicrobial resistance, argues a new perspective paper led by SoGE DPhil researcher Abi Brown in partnership with House of Lords peer Baroness Natalie Bennett.
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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).
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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.
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