On 1 October 2022, Professor Giles Wiggs became the new Head of the School of Geography and the Environment. Giles succeeds Professor Gillian Rose who was Head of School from 2019 to 2022. Giles is a Fellow, Tutor and former Dean at Brasenose College, Oxford, and has previously held positions as Reader and Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK.

The Royal Geographical Society's Political Geography Research Group has named Baichuan Liu as the winner of the 2022 undergraduate dissertation prize for his dissertation: 'To Make Live Yet Let Die: Biopolitics on the Practices of Targeted Poverty Alleviation in China.'

The University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment is delighted to launch two new scholarships aimed at UK postgraduate applicants from Black and other ethnic minority backgrounds.

To mark the anniversary of the first BBC radio broadcast, the remaining 13 episodes of the 'Tales from Call the Midwife' podcast have been released today.

Climate change is expected to impose a considerable burden on the southern African region as it is one of two land-based areas of the planet where large-scale drying is projected to occur in future decades. A lot of the early summer drying is expected to result from the late onset of the rains after the six month long dry season. However much of what we know depends entirely on models rather than observations. In an effort to sharpen our understanding, a team from Oxford joined up with the Zambian Met Department from August to November 2022 to compile a comprehensive dataset on the onset of the rainy season as part of the NERC funded DRYCAB project.

Dr Alice Watson, a researcher in the School of Geography at the University of Oxford, has today launched a new podcast with the BBC called 'Tales from Call the Midwife'. This exciting new podcast is part of a project, funded by the Arts and Research Council, which has engaged the public in research about the BBC for its centenary.

The Royal Geographical Society's Social and Cultural Geography Research Group has named Lucas Lyko as the runner-up of the 2022 undergraduate dissertation prize for his dissertation: '"I don't have the luxury of being able to do nothing": Exploring Temporalities and Navigations of Everyday Mobility Through the Experiences of People with Multiple Sclerosis.'