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HGRG CONTRIBUTIONS, LINKS AND CONNECTIONS
HGRG wider contribution
The HGRG is committed to providing as much ‘service’ as possible to the wider scholarly and infrastructural development of the discipline (human geography, and also geography more broadly) and, where appropriate, that of related disciplines as well. To this end, we have members engaged in senior editing roles for major journals (Geographical Review and Urban Studies), for other well-regarded journal (Space and Polity and Scottish Geographical Journal) and for significant disciplinary projects (ie. Dictionary of Human Geography, International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography). Many of our members have been recruited to author entries or introductions for the various high-profile Companions, Handbooks, Readers, etc., in human geography and its different branches that have recently been published. We also have members active in running the Research Groups of the RGS/IBG, and have managed to sustain very high levels of conference session convening and participation (at both national and international events).
HGRG links
The HGRG has research links across to the ESDRG, notably through a major human geography presence in SAGES (the Scottish Alliance for Geosciences, Environment and Society), a pooling initiative part-funded by the Scottish Funding Council in which the School is a leading partner.The HGRG played a key role in shaping the ‘society’ cross-cutting strand of SAGES, and contribute to this strand through both a SAGES-funded postdoctoral researcher and SAGES support for PhD studentships working on society-environment relations.
Elsewhere in the University, HGRG collaborates closely with the School of Urban Studies, and particularly salient here is the major international journal Urban Studies managed and edited on a 50/50 basis between the HGRG and the School of Urban Studies, and constitutionally and financially independent of the University.
Other notable University links are with:
CPPR (the Centre for Public Policy for Regions ), an initiative shared with the University of Strathclyde, and funded from 2005 by a Scottish Funding Council Research Development Grant;
CfID (the University’s new Centre for International Development), a multi-disciplinary initiative bringing together a range of expertises in development issues.
The HGRG has diverse collaborations with academics external to the University, some with an ‘institutional’ dimension, including interactions with human geographers at the University of Edinburgh (a SAGES spin-off) and prompting meetings of a ‘public arts’ cluster between the two groups. We have a long-term link with South Valley University, Aswan (Egypt), and now formalised networking with the Universities of Malawi, Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and North-West (South Africa). Our inter-personal international collaborations for research and scholarship are too numerous to list.
End-user connections
The HGRG is committed to engaging with end-user communities, broadly conceived. A model of engaged ethnographic inquiry that simultaneously assists research subjects in their daily struggles permeates the fieldwork of several HGRG members, notably those working in the ‘global South’. Another model is that of deep critical policy analysis designed to speak back constructively to different policy communities, notably in the fields of urban, (alternative) economic and mental health policy. A further model is that of ‘popularising’ research, and some HGRG members have been active in collaborating with artists, composers, crafts-people and curators in preparing exhibitions, hosting events in city display spaces and designing prize-winning posters. Relevant details can be traced through some of the project sites linked from the research theme webpages.
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