Geography

The leading geographer talks to Karen Shook about how to learn from your audience and help build a better politics too

A leading authority on the British landscape has died

Book of the week: Facts and figures can get you only so far when it comes to political change, says Gordon Marsden

One of the leading radical geographers of her generation has died

Jenny Pickerill reflects on how to overcome sexism and stereotypes in higher education

Students need to apply numerical and statistical methods to real-world contexts, says Rita Gardner

Danny Dorling on the US failure to provide affordable housing for its citizens

Book of the week: Angelia Wilson on a call for us to take seriously our political responsibility for global poverty

In the second blog from nominees for Most Innovative Teacher of the Year at the THE Awards, Luke Burns calls on lecturers to embrace technology and a sense of theatre

We talk to the glaciologist about how it feels to have a glacier named after him and the chances of a catastrophic sea-level rise resulting from climate change

Drew Mulholland explains how his unique role at the University of Glasgow is at the heart of cross-disciplinary conversations

An impoverished island's citizens and academics greet desperate refugees with compassion, in shocking contrast to governments' inaction. Dimitris Ballas writes from Lesvos 

Wageningen University president and author of Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat on her appetite for good books, from Primo Levi to Claudia Roden.

Book of the week: Beneath a bourgeois veneer is a secret history of defunct jobs and fascinating lives, says Paul White

The responses to a UK-wide survey show how life chances are diverging, argues Danny Dorling

Inequality in income lowers the life expectancy of everyone in society, says Marcus Chown

A work of distinction offers fresh insights into the hedonism and hangovers, says Richard J. Williams

An openness to other cultures has long characterised a country often considered exotically remote, says Tibetan scholar as Dalai Lama visits UK

Howard Segal admires the travelogue of a self-confessed ‘professional disaster tourist’ covering a variety of global wastelands

Director of knowledge exchange hub says that the arts and humanities can play a key role in bringing creative companies and academics together

University of Wisconsin-Madison academic says disciplines, despite initial stumbles, might be better suited than some think

Scholars invite attendees to urinate in special toilet to harness their pee power

A remarkable investigation into the global traffic in cheap shelf-fillers uncovers both meanness and meaning in the market, says Louise Crewe

A tax rate of 67.5% is part of an economist’s plan to stem excessive inequality, finds Danny Dorling

Robert Mayhew on how geographical texts of the early 18th century preferred an aesthetic of the ‘exotic’ over accuracy

A wide-ranging examination of garment recycling should whet the appetite of readers for more research on the subject, says Ruth Pearson

An engaging account of an unruly city, but why so little on Empire, wonders Danny Dorling

Peter J. Smith on the literary giants who have drawn inspiration from their nocturnal perambulations

Laurence Coupe relishes inspiring reflections on the natural world’s relationship with language

Philip Hoare on an alternative look at Britain - from hidden canal systems to ancient energy circuits

Mapping queer spaces is revealing, but ghettos are also places of the mind, says Sally R. Munt

Niall O’Flaherty on a penetrating and nuanced account of Malthus’ insights and the consequent responses

Farzana Shaikh finds persuasive arguments in an analysis of democracy and military rule in Pakistan

Robert Mayhew is delighted to follow a determinedly non-Eurocentric cartographic collection through the ages

Robert Mayhew on the vision, dignity and achievement of two centuries of armchair travellers

Robert Mayhew on the human need to travel to extreme environments that nourish the spirit

Caroline Osella on a page-turning survey of people and politics in a region once at the heart of global trade and imperial histories

Fred Inglis welcomes fresh currents of political resistance

Caroline Osella considers a slice of the subcontinent at the heart of the Gulf

Ulrike Zitzlsperger on the changing nature of heritage and the consequent effects on national identities in European nations

Robert J. Mayhew lifts off with a true balloon enthusiast

Chris Turney reviews a history of attempts by Antarctic explorers to conquer the southern continent

Willy Maley identifies an old-fashioned charm in the telling of a tale of two rival, divided cities