Tess Osborne

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

Geography's 'combination of STEM, social science and arts and humanities can sit uneasily within university faculty systems, heightening the risk that we are dismantled into separate components.' 1/2

Opinion: “Geography shapes how we understand and produce a more sustainable and just world. It is, by design, a holistic, systems-based approach to understanding the world.”

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings, write five professors #highered
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I am excited to share that I am joining Digital Geography and Society as Co-Editor-in-Chief 🎉📚

This is a journal that feels made for the world(s) we are living in now; where the digital reshapes space, power, work and everyday life.

More soon 🚀

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🎉 Meet the DGRG Committee!

Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting the brilliant humans who keep the DGRG running, including a mix of familiar faces and new members.

First up (because someone has to go first)… our Chair, Tess Osborne (she/her/hers)! 👇 @tessosborne.bsky.social

#DGRGCommittee

New Online 1st Commentary “Situated digital involuntary: Intersectional digital freedom and agency” by Tess Osborne

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DGRG A Research Group of the RGS-IBG

Statement from the Digital Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG)

The Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) are deeply concerned about the impacts and implications of ongoing crises facing Geography departments in UK Universities. 1/6

Sign the Petition Save Geography at the University of Leicester

Geography Awareness Week arrives at the same time that Geography at the University of Leicester faces closure.

Please sign and share: c.org/vfDRJPwwbm

#GeographyAwarenessWeek #SaveGeography #Geography #HumanGeography #PhysicalGeography #HigherEd #UKHE

Save Geography at the University of Leicester Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Please sign and share this petition.

I care deeply about geography and want to do everything I can to save our jobs and the school, and protect our students 🌍

#Geography #SchoolClosure

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Save Geography at the University of Leicester Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Please sign and share this petition.

I care deeply about geography and want to do everything I can to save our jobs and the school, and protect our students 🌍

#Geography #SchoolClosure

c.org/Z2ZK6fQVgf

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The DGRG Dissertation Prize 2025 Winner is Levina Purewal for “‘I can’t think without ChatGPT’: A Cognitive Sociotechnical Assemblage Analysis of Student-AI Entanglement at Durham University”. Reviewers praised the contribution, multi-method approach, analysis & ambition 1/2
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We're looking for fantastic digital geographers to join our committee!

A few committee roles are open, and we’d love to see new (and familiar) faces step up. It’s a chance to meet other digital geographers and help shape what we do next.

Apply here: shorturl.at/kvDIv
Deadline: 24th Sept.

Caring with: positioning social support in landscapes of care Informal caring is often framed as an individualised activity, with support networks positioned as peripheral rather than integral to sustaining care.…

We have a new paper in @wssjournal.bsky.social: “Caring with: positioning social support in landscapes of care.”

It argues that social support is central to sustaining informal dementia care, reshaping how care is organised and experienced.

Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Pre-conference activities - RGS Find out more about activities taking place in the run-up to the conference.

Attending RGS-IBG AC25? Before the main conference kicks off, please join us for our pre-conference workshop on Tuesday 26th August, 12pm-5pm, in the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences.

Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann...

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Human Geography at Leicester is ranked No.1 in the UK for overall positivity in the 2025 NSS 🥇🎉

Massive thanks to our students for the feedback and the brilliant staff who made it happen. I’m proud to be part of GGE!

Read more: le.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

#Geography #HumanGeography #NSS2025

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Last week was our Global Digital Geographies Symposium with speakers from China, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, Iran, the US, UK & more making it our most international symposium! Thank you to everyone who presented work, attended sessions, & discussed emerging ideas 1/3
#DGRGSymposium2025

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With the student grades now released, it’s the end of the academic year for me (yay!)

I’m very much looking forward to getting into some writing this summer; especially a new digital geographies book with the fantastic @samkinsley.uk #newbook #watchthisspace

Clear skies for the Berlin field course 🇩🇪🌤️

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Guess who has finally arrived on bluesky?

Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing.

#digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe

It was a pleasure to be in Poznań week talking to colleagues and graduate students about VR and NeRF techniques. Thank you to @michalrzeszewski.bsky.social for the invitation!