Tag Archives: race

Interview with Temi Ajayi

We are posting interviews with the 2024 Dissertation Prize winners. This interview is with Temi Ajayi (University of Edinburgh). First of all, how did you come up with your dissertation topic? I started listening to drill music in 2022 to get me through a particularly rough part-time job and quickly became obsessed with the genre. […]

Interview with Eleanor Luxton

We are posting interviews with the 2024 Dissertation Prize winners. This interview is with Eleanor Luxton (pictured left with her dissertation at Oxford University). First of all, how did you come up with your dissertation topic? I know that this isn’t a helpful answer for undergrads who are stressing about their dissertations at the moment, […]

Invitation for RACE session sponsorship at the 2025 RGS-IBG Annual Conference

The Race, Culture and Equality Working Group (RACE) of the RGS-IBG invites you to submit proposals for sponsorship at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025.  The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 will be chaired by Professor Patricia Noxolo (University of Birmingham, UK), on the theme of Geographies of Creativity/Creative Geographies. The conference will take place at the University of Birmingham and online, from Tuesday […]

Online Event: “Stolen Works, Stolen Lives: Racial Erasure, Exclusion and Dispossession in Academic Publishing”

This upcoming event features members of RACE. The website can be found here. *** Stolen Works, Stolen Lives: Racial Erasure, Exclusion and Dispossession in Academic Publishing 1-2pm, Thursday 10 September 2020 Given the importance of publishing to the career trajectories and lives of academic researchers, comparatively little attention has been paid to racism in the […]

RGS-IBG RACE Workshop 2018 “Stories of Butetown: Linking Spaces”

Image: David Barrie Stories of Butetown: Linking spaces Tuesday 28 August 2018 12:00 – 17:00 BST Glamorgan Building – Seminar Room 0.86 University of Cardiff King Edward VII Avenue Cardiff CF10 3WT Organiser: Dr Margaret Byron (University of Leicester) This year the RACE group workshop is using the Cardiff location of the RGS/IBG conference to […]

RACE events at RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2016

The Race, Culture & Equality Working Group has several upcoming events at next week’s RGS-IBG Annual Conference: 1) The ‘Race in Geography Teaching Workshop’ on Tuesday 30 August in the Education Centre. In the workshop, we will be discussing two themes: Race in the Curriculum and Challenging Exclusionary Spaces. The workshop is scheduled to run […]