March 2008
- Prize for geography graduate student in UCL poster competition
- Hang Kei Ho has won a runner up prize in the UCL Graduate School Poster Competition
- Climate Change & Groundwater
- Dr Richard Taylor has been invited to give a presentation, 'Impacts of climate change on groundwater resources in sub-Saharan Africa', at the International Groundwater Conference on Groundwater Dynamics and Global Change in Jaipur (India) on March 21st.
- SPLINT Maps the UK for the Office of National Statistics
- Dr Alex Singleton and Dr Maurizio Gibin have created an interactive map using census data to show the type of people who live in your neighbourhood.
- Geography undergraduate is awarded research grant
- Second-year Geography undergraduate student, Mojca Kralj, has been awarded a Henrietta Hutton Research Grant from the Royal Geographical Society
- Emergent Publics
- On the 13th and 14th of March, Gail Davies will be participating in the opening event for the ESRC research seminar series on Emergent Publics
- Knowledge Transfer Partnership ranked as 'outstanding'
- The final report of the Department of Geography's three year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Camden Primary Care Trust was recently ranked as Grade A (Outstanding) by the Government evaluation team.
- The Thames Discovery Programme gets grant for three year community archeology programme
- A Heritage Grant has been awarded to support the new Thames Discovery Programme (TDP), an exciting three year programme of community archeology on the Thames foreshore.
- UCL at the AAG 2008
- Members of the Department will be presenting at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers in April.
- Gated communities and land invasions
- On 3rd and 4th March, Dr Charlotte Lemanski is in Vancouver presenting her case study chapter on 'Gated communities and land invasions in Cape Town'.
