Division Member Dr. Marie Aronsson-Storrier has just published a gap analysis of Sweden’s implementation of the Sendai Framework commissioned by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB). The primary purpose of…Read More >
News
How Legalizing Cocaine’s Base Ingredient Could Save Indigenous Lives
Journalist Amy Booth at Vice news has recently published an article describing some of the issues facing indigenous coca farmers based on the research undertaken by division member Thomas Grisaffi…Read More >
New Book Published from Global Development member Professor Michael Goodman: Geographies of Food: An Introduction
A new textbook entitled Geographies of Food: An introduction has been published by Mike Goodman from the Global Development Research Division and a series of co-authors from Universities of Hull…Read More >
RUSU Excellence Awards 2021 winners
The RUSU Excellence Awards recognise colleagues who display excellent and innovative teaching practice, awarding those who students believe have gone above and beyond expectations, tirelessly working to improve the delivery…Read More >
The End of Food Ethics? Farming Robots, Cellular Agriculture and the Future of Food
On the 12th of May, 2021, Professor Mike Goodman from the Global Development Research Division and Dr. Alexandra Sexton from the Department of Geography and Sheffield gave a talk at…Read More >
Reflections on the Groundnut Scheme
To celebrate it’s 70th anniversary, the MERL is exploring objects from its collections connected to the year 1951, when the Museum was first established. As part of this project PhD…Read More >
Seminar : Understanding of the construction of ‘good’ food in the digital?
Join us for our Human Geography and Global Development online seminar. Sylvia Jaworska, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Reading, will be presenting on: What…Read More >
Panel at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)
Reading University and the Andean Information Network (AIN) have organised a panel for the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) 64th Session: The panel will consist of academics (including…Read More >
Seminar – Feeding the world Silicon Valley-style: Place, protein and promise
Join us for the next Human Geography/ Global Development online research seminar tomorrow 18th March, 1-2pm, with Dr. Alex Sexton, University of Sheffield: Feeding the world Silicon Valley-style: Place, protein…Read More >
Seminar: “A riot in Shoeton”: Violence, insecurity and post-socialist geographies of racism.
Join us for the next Human Geography online research seminar on Thursday 4 March, 1-2pm, with Matej Blazek “A riot in Shoeton”: Violence, insecurity and post-socialist geographies of racism. Matej…Read More >