Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Seminars & Events
- Date
- 20/05/2013 (16:00-17:00)
- Location:
- Room 311, Geography and Environmental Sciences Building (R26 on the Edgbaston Campus map) Room 311
- Description
- Part of the Water Sciences Seminar Series. Simon Dixon, University of Southampton
- Date
- 03/06/2013 (16:00-17:00)
- Location:
- Room 311, Geography and Environmental Sciences Building (R26 on the Edgbaston Campus map) Room 311
- Description
- Part of the Water Sciences Seminar Series. Martin Muir, Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience
- Date
- 05/06/2013 (16:15-17:15)
- Location:
- NG08 - School of Biosciences – R27 on the Edgbaston Campus map
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Professor John Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences
News
- Description
- Dominique Moran and Louise Dixon (Psychology) have been successful in obtaining funding from the ESRC for a project entitled 'Breaking the Cycle? Prison Visitation and Recidivism in the UK' (£370k fEC). This 3-year interdisciplinary project will provide a new perspective on prison visitation and its relationship to the highly topical issue of recidivism.
- Date:
- 29/08/2012
- Description
- Lee Chapman and colleagues from Civil Engineering have been successful in obtaining £109k from FP7 as part of the LivingRail (Planning rail towards 2050) project.
- Date:
- 29/08/2012
- Description
- Last month saw the publication of a new text by Ian Fairchild and former Birmingham staff member Andy Baker which concerns cave archives of environmental change.
- Date:
- 18/05/2012
- Description
- 'As a child I always had aspirations to go to the Olympics and represent my sport at the highest level, but not until recently did I realise that I wanted to do this as a full-time occupation for the foreseeable future'. So says Susie Gilbert, final year Geography student and women's Olympic hockey hopeful.
- Date:
- 04/04/2012
- Description
- Professor Roy Harrison has been awarded the Fitzroy Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society for 2011 "for his outstanding work at the intersection of meteorology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental health".
- Date:
- 16/03/2012
- Description
- Phil Jones has successfully led two bids to the AHRC's Connected Communities scheme.
- Date:
- 10/02/2012
- Description
- The first grant has been awarded by the ESRC and JSPS (Japan Society for the promotions of Science) and will be used for a project entitled Planning Responses to 'Shock' and 'Slow-Burn' Events: the Role of Redundancy in Regional Resilience. The second grant (of 10K) has been awarded through EPSRC for a project entitled Open Source Food Distribution: Delivering Distributed Food Manufacture to Enhance Resilience.
- Date:
- 03/02/2012
- Description
- The Environmental Health Sciences FIXAT project team are seeking to recruit adult non-smoking volunteers to take part in a research project studying exposure to air pollution arising from new or recently decorated buildings.
- Date:
- 03/02/2012