At the University of Oxford’s Green Impact and LEAF end-of-year showcase and celebration on the 9 July 2024, the School of Geography and the Environment earned Gold accreditation in the Green Impact awards for the second time and Silver accreditation for our Geolabs in the LEAF (Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework) scheme.
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Avoidable deaths have increased: the damning data political parties aren’t discussing
One question that British voters may have asked themselves during the 2024 election campaign is whether they are any better off now than they were in 2010 when the Conservative-led coalition came to power. A recent poll reveals that most Britons (73%) think they are not. In The Conversation, Lucinda Hiam and Danny Dorling in the School of Geography and the Environment, delve deeper into avoidable deaths in the UK.
Master's Dissertation by Lubasi Limweta Recognised by Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema
MSc student in Water Science, Policy, and Management, Lubasi Limweta, from the University of Oxford, received high recognition from the President of Zambia, H.E. Hakainde Hichilema, during the "Zambia at 60 Conference - Standing up for Zambia" event held at the Saïd Business School on 21st June 2024."
The transition from MSc to MBA for a Pershing Square scholar
My first degree, Water Science, Policy and Management, had a cohort of 26 people. Our 'Launch' was a three-day trip to Dorset where we learned about the influence of chalk aquifers on water chemistry, climbed up the cliffs of the Jurassic Coast and slept in dorms in youth hostels. There was no way to come out of the trip without knowing every person individually. From that trip on, we were bonded as a cohort. Recent MSc in WSPM graduate, Kate French, writes for the Said Business School blog.
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Wind and solar power could significantly exceed Britain's energy needs
Britain's energy needs could be met entirely by wind and solar, according to a policy brief published by Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
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Thinking Care-fully with Method Workshop: Facing the Discomfort in Research
Researchers face ethical dilemmas in every step of the research process, often unforeseen despite our best efforts of anticipation in the research design. Many complex ethical questions arise from the best intentions of producing inclusive and responsible research while avoiding harm to participants and researchers. These questions become more salient with the emergence of diverse creative and innovative research methods in the field, such as 'go-along', visual, and digital methods. Responding to the ethical and practical challenges in qualitative research, Dr Jennie Middleton, Dr Rosalie Warnock, and Professor Gillian Rose convened a two-part workshop on Thinking Care-fully with Method at SoGE in May.
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Remembering Dr Karen Bakker
The School of Geography and the Environment is very saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Karen Bakker in August. Karen was a Rhodes Scholar at SoGE, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in 1999, before she moved to the University of British Columbia.
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'My home city was destroyed by war but I will not lose hope' - how modern warfare turns neighbourhoods into battlefields
"It has been almost 12 years since I left my city. And I have never been able to return. Homs, the place I was born and grew up, has been destroyed and I, like many others, have been left in exile: left to remember how beautiful it once was. What can a person do when their home - that place within them that carries so much meaning - has effectively been murdered?" Dr Ammar Azzouz, Research Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment, writes for The Conversation.
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Alumni Stories: 'A career in sports journalism is an exciting life but not a lazy or easy life.'
Jen O'Neill (Keble, 1993), Editor of Women's Football Magazine She Kicks gives tips for a career in sports journalism in an article on the Oxford Alumni website.
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New book unveils the connections between the built environment, the creation and destruction of 'home', and war in Syria
Dr Ammar Azzouz, a British-Syrian architect and British Academy Research Fellow in the School of Geography and Environment, is author of the new book 'Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria'.
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Extreme weather events are exactly the time to talk about climate change - here's why
Josh Ettinger, a doctoral researcher in SoGE, is exploring how extreme weather events may affect the way the public feels, thinks and acts on climate change. In an article in The Conversation he explores how to talk about recent extreme weather events and climate change with people and how to shift their existing concerns about climate change into action.
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Just Four Films. BBC-Oxford social sciences join forces to turn four great ideas into fantastic new films
Two projects from SoGE - 'How the humble bean can help the world' from ECI's future of food platform TABLE, and 'How to keep cool (without heating the planet)' led by Dr Radhika Khosla in the SSEE - are among four projects turned into engaging short films in collaboration with BBC Ideas.
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The Historic Built Environment as a Long-Term Geochemical Archive: Telling the Time on the Urban "Pollution Clock"
An innovative study led by Dr Katrin Wilhelm, Researcher and Departmental Lecturer at the School of Geography and the Environment, uses Oxford’s historic structures as geochemical "clocks" to reveal past pollution trends.
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