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HGRG Research Postgraduate Students
Introduction
Postgraduate students undertaking research degrees (primarily PhDs) are central to the spirit, purpose and workings of the HGRG. Indeed, our thriving human geography postgraduate community contributes significantly to the research culture, and social life, of both the HGRG and the wider Department. Postgraduate students are fully integrated into a broad range of research activities, and are given opportunities to contribute to elements of the undergraduate teaching program. Whether undertaking doctoral research or teaching, postgraduate students are supported by supervisors and teaching staff with a breadth of disciplinary expertise and experience. The HGRG (and the Department) takes pride in making students at all levels feel like they belong and that they matter.
HGRG and its Research Students
The HGRG mixes research students with early career researchers and experienced academic staff, running a range of research grants with external funding from various sources (national research councils, public sector bodied, charitable foundations). The Group’s activities are diverse, our fortnightly meetings providing a focal point for research-based presentation, conversation and debate. Embedded in the Group’s programme of meetings are dedicated events for students to present findings from on-going doctoral research. Other meetings expose students to a range of research-related activity, including the drafting of grant applications, consideration of academic papers for publication, roundtable conversations, and data, ethics and methods based workshops.
Research Training and Accreditation
The quality of our ongoing research training, monitoring and supervision arrangements for postgraduate students is assured by formal accreditation from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). We are approved for the delivery of both the first-year training of research students, through our MRes in Human Geography (see details elsewhere), and the following three years of PhD research proper (on the ‘1+3’ model now preferred by the ESRC and AHRC).
As an active participant member department of the ‘Kindrogan Consortium (for Advanced Research Training of Human Geography Postgraduates in Scotland)’, our students are given support to attend an annual, residential training course in the company of invited international scholars and fellow postgraduates from other universities. The Kindrogan Consortium research training course receives full financial support from the ESRC and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Under the auspices of the ‘Kindrogan Consortium’, currently the HGRG has access to a quota allocation of ESRC studentships. We also have recognition from the ESRC to host ‘Open competition’ studentships, CASE studentships and Scottish Government partnership scholarships.
As well as the provisions made for formal research training provision, informal gatherings of research students, postdoctorial researchers and academic staff cohere around critical reading groups, critical practice groups and critical viewing groups. Research students are encouraged to gain important vocational experience and skills training by contributing to the organisation of conferences, exhibitions and workshops.
Funding and Support
Our postgraduate students have recently received external funding and research support from the ESRC and AHRC. External funding to support postgraduate students has also been secured from the UK Overseas Research Scholarships Awards Scheme, Commonwealth Bursaries Scheme, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, various overseas research councils and governments, and other charitable organisations.
New scholarship funding is currently available for postgraduate research bridging environmental and social inquiries through the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES) initiative [LINK]. Additionally several postgraduate students are in receipt of scholarships provided by the University of Glasgow, and through part-time teaching arrangements within the Department.
The Department provides financial support for Human Geography postgraduate students to present research papers to the wider academic community at international conferences and colloquia; most recently students have participated in the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers and the International Conference of Critical Geographers.
Careers Post-PhD
Postgraduate research students graduating from the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences have an excellent record of putting their training to good use by securing research posts in different academic and non-academic settings. Over half of our most recent graduates have continued in academia (in lectureships or postdoctoral positions) and are now researching and publishing in their own right, while others work in research consultancy and community development projects.
A list detailing where each of our former research students follows below (just keep scrolling down).
Postgraduate Applications and Statements of Interest
The HGRG welcomes applications for postgraduate study from students based in the UK, the Global South and other international locations. Initial expressions of interest in postgraduate research are similarly welcome. Members of the HGRG are prepared to advise students in the preparation of postgraduate funding applications to UK research councils and other funding bodies.
Expressions of interest in “cross-over” postgraduate research projects based on supervision arrangements between human geographers and geo-scientists (from the Earth Surface Dynamics Research Group) are also most welcome.
Current HGRG Research Students
For relevant bibliographic and research details of the postgraduate research students listed below, click here.
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David Beel
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Vanessa Collingridge
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Gareth Evans
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Will Hasty
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Marilyn Keenan
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Olga Mausch
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Cheryl McGeachan
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Dorothy McGuire
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Boyson Moyo
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Jo Norcup
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Merle Patchett
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Geraldine Perriam
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Kristina Weaver
Past HGRG Research Students, Titles of Theses Awarded, 2001-2007
(1) Anthony, D. ‘Traditional environmental knowledge systems related to changes and variations of water resources management in semi-arid, Tanzania: a case-study of Mara river basin.’ (2007)
(2) Crotty, J. ‘Your place or mine? Issues of power, participation and partnership in an urban regeneration area.’ (2004)
(3) Dalrymple, G. ‘Modeling the ecological, behavioural and perceptual dimensions of outdoor recreation, using Loch Lomond as a case study.’ (2005)
(4) Gillespie, S. ‘Sustainable Rural Tourism: The Ecological Attitudes of Visitors and Farm-Based Tourism in Dumfries and Galloway, South-West Scotland.’ (2007)
(5) Hansen, N. ‘Passing through other people’s spaces: disabled women, geography and work.’ (2002)
(6) Helms, G. ‘Towards safe city centres? Remaking the spaces of an old-industrial city.’ (2003)
(7) Kyle, R. ‘Moral geographies of the Boys’ Brigade in Scotland.’ (2006)
(8) Lafferty, A. ‘A machinery for the moral elevation of a town population: church extension in Glasgow, 1800-1843’. (2007/8: under final revision)
(9) MacFarlane, H. ‘Disabled women and socio-spatial “barriers” to motherhood.’ (2005)
(10) Mir, S. ‘From Villages 477 and 482 to suburbia: the suburbanisation of Glasgow’s Pakistani community.’ (2006)
(11) Oslender, U. ‘Black communities on the Colombian Pacific coast and the “aquatic space”: a spatial approach to social movement theory.’ (2001)
(12) Rae, N.G.R. ‘Reinventing geopolitical codes in the post-cold war world with special reference to international terrorism.’ (2007/8: under final revision)
(13) Stephen, J.A. ‘Challenges posed by the geography of the Scottish Highlands to ecclesiastical endeavour over the centuries.’ (2005)
(14) Vann, B. A. ‘Space of time or distance of place: Presbyterian diffusion in the Irish Sea culture area, 1610-1690.’ (2006)
(15) Zieleniec, A. ‘Park spaces: leisure, culture and modernity – a Glasgow case study.’ (2002)
Post-PhD Careers of Former Research Students
Donald Anthony - Lecturer in Geography, University of Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania
John Crotty - part-time research assistant on Community Participation research project.
Gillian Dalrymple - Rural and Environment Research and Analysis Directorate, The Scottish Executive
Steven Gillespie - Research Assistant on SME research project, Crichton Campus, University of West of Scotland.
Nancy Hansen - Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Disability Studies, University of Manitoba.
Gesa Helms - Kelvin/Smith Research Fellow in Urban Studies, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow.
Richard Kyle - Research Associate on 'Moving Closer to Home' project, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester.
Hazel McFarlane - Research Fellow, Strathclyde Centre for Disability Studies, University of Glasgow.
Sadiq Mir - formerly Research Assistant, Departments of Geography and Sociology, Kings College, London.
Ulrich Oslender - Marie Curie (Outgoing) International Research Fellow, Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow.
John Stephen - research Masters degree in Divinity, University of Glasgow.
Barry Vann - Professor of Geography and Education, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee, USA.
Andrzej Zieleniec - Lecturer in Sociology and Geography, University of Keele.
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