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Scott Polar Research Institute 100 years Charlotte Connelly tells us about the history of SPRI

Geographies of Health Alice Reid on geographies of health and demography

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Scott Polar Research Institute 100 years 4 Geographies of Health 6 Alumni views 8

A more diverse future for Geography 9 Conservation Leadership 10 Managing disasters 12 Welcome to the 2020 edition of landmark

e always expected 2020 to delivered remotely during the Easter Term, and be a memorable year at the undergraduate examinations moved online. It is Department, but perhaps not for testimony to the extraordinary commitment of W the reasons that have dominated colleagues that we were able to manage all these the last few months, during which coping with changes reasonably well, while still delivering Covid-19 has overshadowed all our activities. In this the best possible experiences for students, and edition of Landmark, we celebrate the centenary of being mindful of the wellbeing and health of all the founding of the Scott Polar Research Institute concerned. I am very fortunate to be surrounded and a decade since the launch of the flagship by people who care, and who have worked MPhil programme in Conservation Leadership. tirelessly to support the Department through this We look forward to welcoming the first cohorts of period. students for our two new Masters programmes in Anthropocene Studies and Holocene Climates with We have seen other creative ways to adapt to the a feature on our colleague, Amy Donovan, who new challenges that we all face. Our postgraduate will be a key member of the team delivering both students, many of whom will be unable to

©Sir Cam courses. undertake fieldwork for some months, have been holding workshops to consider the impacts of This has been a year to recognise the extraordinary Covid-19 on their research plans. We have curated work and contributions that Geographers make to publicly available resources to support remote our world. Our alumni profile features work being research by our undergraduates, many of whom done to support the most vulnerable groups who were expecting to travel over the summer for are impacted by Covid-19, while Alice Reid reflects their dissertations. May Week was suspended, but on the longer historical geographies of disease and students and staff came together in a celebration pandemics. of the Cambridge community in the May Week Mega Event – unsurprisingly, Geographers were Over the last few months, we have reached out very visible in the organisation of this event. to other alumni who are working in diverse ways Towards the beginning of July, we held our first to support the response to the current crisis, and alumni webinar, which was an opportunity to have featured some of their stories on our social celebrate the career of Bill Adams, who retires this media pages. The last few months have also seen year. Thank you to the hundreds who watched this a real focus on the black community's continued live, and made it a very special farewell to Bill; for experiences of structural inequality and violence. those who were unable to attend, the event is now There is a lot to be done here, and Geography has a visible on the Department’s alumni webpages. key role, both in acknowledging the legacies of our discipline, but also in being a progressive voice for We look forward to working more closely with change. More locally, we have to focus on our own our Alumni over the next 12 months and hope work, especially around issues of inclusion and that you will be able to join us at our next online representation within the student body – I hope event as part of the University Alumni Festival in you’ll enjoy reading about one of our particularly September. inspirational current undergraduates, who has been doing some amazing work in this area.

This has been a very different year to what I had imagined I might expect during my tenure as Head of Department. We had to cancel our Easter undergraduate fieldtrips, and then move rapidly as the University and the country went into Prof Bhaskar Vira lockdown in March. Teaching and learning were Head of Department

landmark 3 Scott Polar Research Institute 100 years

This year marks 100 years since the opening of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI). Museum Curator Charlotte Connelly tells us about the history of SPRI.

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Figure 1. Detail from the Antarctic ceiling mural in the memorial hall of the Scott Polar Research Institute. (Image courtesy of the Scott Polar Research Institute, 4 Summer 2020 I Edition 6 University of Cambridge he building would contain these research rooms on the first floor. The attic will be at least; a practical museum of used for exhibition of pictures, and for museum Polar equipment… the things storage.’ “T explorers want to see and handle and know the use and cost of, such as camp gear, The new building could not be erected soon instruments, clothing etc.; a comprehensive library enough. Between the geological specimens that of Polar literature and maps, not only narratives… Debenham and others were working with, and but all the scientific reports; thirdly a set of rooms for the accumulation of expedition gear, books and the use of people undertaking research, these people other items for the new institute’s collection, by might be returned scientists, budding explorers or 1925 the University Council noted that ‘some people working up papers on Polar subjects who accommodation [for the SPRI] will be required at 1 require the facilities.” once, as material, weighing about 2½ tons, has already arrived.’ Frank Debenham was the driving force behind the founding of the Scott Polar Research Institute. The memorialisation elements of the building are His vision, as outlined above, was for a place still evident today. A niche above the entrance on that brought together polar researchers and Lensfield Road houses a bust of Scott, cast from a resources for the betterment of polar expeditions sculpture by Scott’s widow, Kathleen, then Lady and scientific investigation. As Debenham Young. Inside the entrance, the ceiling of the and several of the other veterans of the British Memorial Hall features two impressive painted Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova) had maps of the Arctic and Antarctic, complete with found themselves in Cambridge writing up the names of explorers and their ships (figure 1). results, and, as Debenham argued, because Cambridge had ‘furnished more polar scientists The SPRI as a whole continues to serve two than all the other English universities put purposes. It is a multi-disciplinary centre together’, the University of Cambridge seemed of excellence in the study of the Arctic the obvious fit. and Antarctic, and part of the University of Cambridge. It is also a national memorial to In his letter to Oriana Wilson (the widow of Captain R. F. Scott and those who died with him Edward Wilson, who died with Scott), one of the in Antarctica: descendants of explorers come many persuasive letters he wrote to encourage to remember their ancestors and spend time support for the proposed institute, Debenham with the collections of material left behind by clearly articulated the challenges the new venture faced: them; visitors can spend time reading the final accounts of Scott and his men; and new deposits “The proposed Polar Research Department, even are made to the collections enabling public though attached to the University of Cambridge, access. is still a national memorial (the research rooms become available to all students of whatever SPRI continues with both purposes. It is a qualification or origin besides polar leanings), public-facing museum, library and memorial, but a Scott School of Geography becomes a local welcoming visitors to learn and reflect on memorial, and in fact as much a possession of polar exploration. It is also a centre for research Cambridge as the Sedgwick Museum or Cavendish into polar subjects ranging from the physical Laboratory. The two things must therefore be kept understanding of glaciology through to the distinct.”2 anthropology of Arctic peoples. The public-facing aspect of the SPRI was reinforced in 2010 with In March 1920, the trustees of the Scott Memorial the reopening of the newly refurbished Polar Fund wrote to the Vice-Chancellor of the Museum, which professionalised the museum University of Cambridge stating that the trustees and reinterpreted the collections. were ‘prepared to grant £6,000 toward the provision of a suitable Wing, or Annexe, forming part of a larger building devoted to Geography’. However, when the SPRI’s home did eventually open in 1934, it was in its own dedicated building, ‘with two floors and an attic, and the accommodation includes a museum and a Charlotte Connelly is Museum Curator at Director’s room on the ground floor; a library and the Scott Polar Research Institute

Find out more: 1 F. Debenham, letter to ‘Mrs Bill’ (Oriana Wilson, widow of Edward A. Wilson, who perished with Robert F. Scott), Cambridge, 26 October 1919, Scott Polar Visit the The Polar Museum collection Research Institute, MSS in ‘Working files, SPRI history, inception’. 2 ibid online at spri.cam.ac.uk/museum 3 Debenham, op. cit. (note i), emphasis in original. Speak, Deb: geographer, scientist, Antarctic explorer (Polar Publishing, Guildford, 2008), p. 73. Cambridge University Reporter, 21 February 1933, p. 716. Cambridge University Reporter, 3 November 1925, p. 253. landmark 5 Geographies of Health

Dr Alice Reid, University Senior Lecturer, working with the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, reflects on the current pandemic as she prepares for her course on the Geographies of Health.

write this, not from my office in the Department, of treatment of other health conditions? Might there be but in my home which I have barely left for over 3 later-life health consequences for those who survive the months. Although deeply worrying, the Covid-19 virus? Men appear to be at greater risk of mortality but will I pandemic is also fascinating from the perspectives women be the long-term losers in economic and social of the geographies of health and demography, raising terms? What will be the long-term effects on the economy, questions about the patterns of disease and how they on society, and on social and economic inequality? interact with other aspects of society. How do population density, and patterns of human movement and interaction There is an outpouring of research about Covid-19 from shape exposure to the virus? To what extent are higher different academic disciplines, including medicine, death rates among BAME populations attributable to epidemiology, mathematical disease modelling, underlying health conditions, occupational patterns, or demography, sociology, and geography, but the pandemic living circumstances, and what role does socio-economic is evolving rapidly and many of these questions won’t status play in mediating these factors? What is the effect be fully answered for some time. This makes planning of government action – quarantines, lockdowns, social teaching for Geographies of Health and in particular distancing – and how does public confidence affect the the short module on Disease (which will be part of the success of such measures? There are also many questions 2nd year course) both an exciting opportunity and an about the medium and long term consequences. After enormous challenge. Students will understandably be the pandemic, will there be fewer than expected deaths, keen to reflect on recent and unfolding events but it is not perhaps through a combination of reduced accident always easy to do so without perspective. My approach rates and the virus bringing forward deaths of vulnerable will be to teach students how to engage with the rapidly people, or will there be more, through delayed or lack unfolding research by introducing them to key analytic

6 Summer 2020 I Edition 6 Eyam boundary Health pass (fede di stone: While sanità) enabling the quarantined bearer to pass freely during the plague of 1665-6, despite there being the villagers of quarantines and Eyam left coins heavy restrictions on in vinegar in the stone’s holes in travel due to plague. exchange for supplies. ©Wellcome (CC 4.0 International Attribution BY Collection. 4.0)

Title page to a statistical analysis of mortality during the plague epidemic in London of 1665.

concepts and theories, providing them with the tools most likely to die. The 1918-19 death-toll was arguably to interrogate and interpret the data and to assess the amplified by the disruption caused by the end of the First statistics, and to use examples and stories from past World War, with exposure boosted by peace celebrations pandemics and disease outbreaks to provide background, and demobilising troops travelling home, emphasising comparisons and an awareness of pertinent issues. the important role that population movement has always played in the spread of disease. Although contemporary Case studies of different diseases will be used to explain theories about the ways that specific historic diseases were concepts such as transmission, infectivity, and case fatality spread were often wrong, effective public health measures and how these affect the course of an outbreak and of isolation, quarantine, mask-wearing and social distancing susceptibility of different groups. For example differences in all have long historical precedent: quarantines were modes of transmission can affect the speed and spread of common in plague outbreaks – there are instances of strict an epidemic – the Black Death became most deadly when isolation such as the village of Eyam in Derbyshire which transmission via flea-bite was supplemented by person- took a decision to self-quarantine when plague arrived in to-person aerosol transmission enabling the disease to 1665, but many societies allowed certain exceptions with spread rapidly through households and communities. documentation such as health passes. The risk of dying from a disease is made up of the two distinct risks, first of catching the disease and then of The course and details of pandemics vary, as do their dying once the disease is contracted. The risk of catching manifestations in different places, but questions about the disease is usually largely driven by the exposure of why they take off, why some places and groups of people uninfected people to those with the disease and this can suffer so much more than others, and how best to prevent explain why certain front-line population groups are more or contain them are perennial. Just as reflection on past affected. For most diseases, including most influenza and pandemics can help understand our current and emerging coronaviruses, the risk of dying once the disease has been situation, so can the current pandemic raise new questions contracted is strongly related to the normal age structure about previous experiences and contribute to our of mortality, with steeply increasing risks from around age understanding of them. 50. However this was not the case with particularly deadly 1918-19 influenza pandemic, when young adults were Alice Reid is University Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies at Churchill College

landmark 7 Alumni views

Eddie Stride (Fitzwilliam College, 1999-2002), CEO Transform UK

round 100 died today from Covid-19 to discuss an attempted murder (in Tower in the UK. Similar yesterday. Probably Hamlets) from a few weeks before where I had the same tomorrow. And yet I and been involved with helping save a young black A many others hardly noticed. boy’s life after he was stabbed in broad daylight by local organised criminals - fortunately he was The last few months have been quite amazing. revived and lived on. But It was a turning point Tragic. Scary. And painful. In so many ways. for me because I realised that day that I wanted to spend my life working with and supporting as And yet amongst it all something new Is many people as I could in the local community coming out of the pain and suffering: not just that I was born in and continued to live in. from Covid-19 - although this alone has been devastating for so many. Since then I’ve been setting up and running charities and social enterprises to help bring about I live in inner-city East London. Have done my positive transformation in society. whole life. I love it. The diversity. The energy. But it's an area where the reality of social injustice hits you And at every step I’ve focused on trying to get smack in the face every day you wake up and walk some of the richest, wealthiest companies in the the streets. world to play a role in helping our societies have more peace, hope and joy through enabling thousands to have better educations, secure better jobs, and have a greater presence of real, genuine, transformational love encompassing their devastating situations and circumstances.

Within a few days of lockdown, my current charitable company TransformUK had restructured so that we could continue to support hundreds of very vulnerable elderly, disconnected homeless, poor and broken families and young people who have had it so tough in life and yet have been left behind with no one to support them. Care for them. Inspire them. Love them.

Every week we are delivering hot meals. Buying shopping. Topping up energy accounts. Buying WiFi and devices for digital connection (vital in I took Geography at Cambridge because I believed a lockdown world). Providing friendship and it was the course that would enable and prepare support via phone, WhatsApp and Zoom. me best to be focused on helping to change the planet for the better, in whatever way I could. My hope is that we will genuinely emerge from this as better individuals, better societies and It helps draw attention to the wonders of nations and we will see genuine transformation. this incredible planet, while also helping us to recognise the huge inequalities and social We all have a role to play. injustices that still exist in our world today. And it’s not only the right thing to do but will also create a better world for all of us. I still remember in my final year in 2002 when embarrassingly (for me at the time) police came down to where I was living at Fitzwilliam College

8 Summer 2020 I Edition 6 A more diverse future for Geography Victoria Ayodeji Second year Geography student at Queens’ College

grew up in East London and was the second person from my school to come to Cambridge; the first came to Cambridge to I study Geography too! Alongside my degree, I have been involved with a wide variety of access and outreach work. When I was in school there were three charities that helped me through my university application: the Social Mobility Foundation, Into University and the Sutton Trust. I went on a Sutton Trust summer school studying Geography at Queens’ when I was in year 12, which is why I ended up choosing to apply to Queens’. The Social Mobility Foundation gave me advice on how to apply to Cambridge and introduced me to current Cambridge students from less advantaged backgrounds, including a mentor who studied Economics at Cambridge. growing up in inner-city London has informed Due to my proactivity, I was lucky to have a lot my interests in music and cultural hybridity as of exposure to people who went to Cambridge, well as finding remedies to educational inequality. who all encouraged me to apply. Through Into Earlier this year I planned my College’s first Black, University I applied for a mentor and was paired Asian and Minority Ethnic Access Day (with St with a Geography Graduate of St John’s College. Catharine’s College) for state school students, I was also fortunate to meet another Cambridge Geography Graduate through a work experience but this sadly had to be postponed due to the programme I applied to with the charity Career Covid-19 pandemic. An alternative virtual event Ready when I was in year 12. Both of these was organised and hosted in June, which for me mentors helped me with my personal statement highlighted the power of social media in students and later my interview, all for free. staying connected, fostering relationships, and building a community online. There’s a great quote from Marian Wright Edelman, the African-American activist and writer, who says: When I visit my old school and speak at access “You can’t be what you can’t see.” Seeing people and outreach events for young people from from a similar background to you, whether that traditionally underrepresented backgrounds I be geographically, culturally, or in any other way, often say: definitely never let your background makes you feel much more comfortable and able stop you. If you let your background stand in your to achieve more. This is why I am passionate about way, you might not be able to achieve the things also helping others from a similar background you really want and are passionate about and to myself, those who do not readily have access instead might settle for less – you deserve more to a network of people who can support them and you can do more! Always tap into any good with applying to university. Over the last year, support networks available to you, whether that I mentored four students through their UCAS applications for Geography, two of whom have be teachers or family members who believe in you received offers from Cambridge. Last summer I and are advocates for your success. Having a good was invited to speak at the Year 12 Going Places support network has always really helped me. with Geography conference hosted by the Royal Geographical Society. I recently featured on the Royal Geographical Society’s Ask the Geographer podcast where I spoke about my experience of applying to university, and how

landmark 9 Conservation Leadership Dr Chris Sandbrook and Dr Howard P Nelson discuss conservation leadership in the time of Covid-19

t has been a spring and summer unlike and networks that, together with the University, anything previously experienced, as Covid-19 make up the Cambridge Conservation Initiative. has swept around the planet. While most It has now trained 180 mid-career professionals Iattention has been understandably focused from more than 80 different countries in applied on dealing with the immediate public health crisis, leadership and management skills. Alumni are the pandemic has also had profound effects on working for governments, charities and the private efforts to tackle the longer term environmental crises sector from Bhutan to Brazil, Ghana to Guyana. Many of climate change and biodiversity loss. Carbon have faced an incredibly difficult few months as emissions have fallen, at least temporarily, and in their organisations have laid off staff, projects have many places non-human life has enjoyed a respite collapsed and ecosystems have suffered. The Masters from anthropogenic pollution and disturbance. team, led by course Director Dr Chris Sandbrook, has However, a depressing picture is emerging of been working closely with them to offer support multiple covid-related threats to biodiversity, including setting up regional zoom calls for alumni including reduced environmental protections, in each inhabited continent, running a survey to increases in wildlife harvesting for subsistence and identify particular impacts and needs, and organising income, and direct persecution of species blamed for an online panel debate featuring leading academic the pandemic. Meanwhile, the conservation sector is thinkers. The aim in all of this work has been to facing a funding crisis as income from nature-based support alumni through the current crisis, while tourism and philanthropic donations dries up. also encouraging them to think about how it might present a moment when significant change is more Established in 2010, the Masters draws on teaching possible than in more normal times. Demonstrating and expertise from the nine international charities their leadership, a group of alumni has written an

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“Cambridge Conservation Initiative has now trained 180 mid-career professionals from more than 80 different countries in applied leadership and management skills.”

editorial for the international journal Oryx entitled “A students have had to find new ways to work. They call for collective crisis leadership”, which has been are experiencing team meetings, coffee sessions signed by 118 course graduates. and planning sessions virtually. Thus far, these virtual placements have been working well, with good Back in Cambridge, as this summer heats up, the feedback from the current students and hosts. current 21 Masters students have embarked on Throughout the period, the Masters team has been their professional placements with CCI conservation meeting weekly with the current MPhils online to organisations. The topics of this year’s projects range sustain the exchange and camaraderie among the from blue carbon to wildlife trade to fashion supply cohort despite their having been scattered across chains, and cover regions from the Antarctic to the globe. South Asia and central Europe. This crucial element of the programme is overseen by newly appointed Looking to the future, the course team is finalising a Lecturer in Conservation Leadership Dr Howard strategy for the next ten years. The Cambridge-based P. Nelson, a Caribbean wildlife biologist with a Masters will continue to be the main focus, but the diversity of leadership experience in that region. positive experience of connecting remotely with Based at Fauna & Flora International, Howard’s alumni during the pandemic has led to a stronger appointment reaffirms the unique integrated role for online learning in future plans. First though, approach to delivering the Masters in partnership the team is preparing for the arrival of a new cohort with conservation organisations. of students in October, and hoping that all will make it through the various challenges of visas, language With the Covid-19 outbreak having occurred just tests and quarantine periods to arrive in Cambridge. prior to commencement of their placements with Meanwhile, the 2019-20 cohort will be joining their the CCI organisations, and half the cohort having predecessors in the world of conservation, ready to returned to their home countries, this year the make their contribution.

landmark 11 Managing disasters

Dr Amy Donovan, University Lecturer in Geography and Fellow of Girton College discusses how Covid-19 has shown the importance of knowledge in risk governance – and also that we live in a multi-risk environment that requires holistic geographical approaches

ovid-19 has shown how important and Peruvian borders – to understand volcanic knowledge is in risk governance – risk and risks related to rapid environmental and also that we live in a multi-risk change Chile has seen significant investment Cenvironment that requires holistic in this area since the 2008 eruption of Chaitén geographical approaches. Climate change, volcano – and has escalated volcano monitoring technological development and population from 7 volcanoes in 2008 to 45 at the time of growth together mean that exposure to natural writing. Again, this was responsive! Argentina hazards has never been higher. is currently setting up a volcano observatory, following both the 2008 eruption and the 2011- Risk is not something that is “caused” by a volcanic 12 eruption of Puyehue Cordón Caulle. Chilean eruption or a landslide: it is produced through volcanoes typically (and rudely) tend to dump interconnected social and physical processes at multiple scales. In India, I am working with various most of their ash in Argentina, creating a range partners on developing landslide forecasting of transborder governance challenges as well capacity within the Geological Survey of India as severe local disruption. Extreme weather (GSI), initially focused on the very different districts events significantly complicate this picture, of Darjeeling in the Himalaya and Nilgiris in Tamil creating mudflows and remobilisation of ash Nadu. The project is not just about forecasting (by wind and water). Our project is taking a landslides using geological and meteorological holistic geographical approach to this, seeking data; it is also about understanding the complex to understand how people live alongside these institutional dynamics that affect how warnings active landscapes – both their relationship to the are received and communicated and whose scientific cosmologies that interact with them, and voices are heard – and the disjunctions between their own forms of knowledge. We are working national level (where the ideal of anticipating both with national and local institutions and with risk is starting to be actualised) and the district indigenous communities, hoping to develop new level, which is still largely response-based. These methodologies for non-extractive and integrative tensions are common to many risk contexts: research on disaster risk. governments respond to disasters rather than preparing and anticipating them, and frequently Risks exacerbate existing inequalities. listen only selectively to stakeholders. Interdisciplinary geographical approaches can provide powerful insights into the complexity of I am also leading a project that is working initially these dynamics – across hazards, health, conflict, in Latin America – on the Chilean, Argentine geopolitics and cultures.

12 Summer 2020 I Edition 6 Recent books and films from the department

Books Jeffrey, A., 2019. The Edge Hulme, M., (ed.), 2020. of Law Legal Geographies of a Contemporary Climate Change Siddiqui, A., 2019. In the War Crimes Court, Cambridge Debates: A Student Primer, Wake of Disaster, the State and University Press. Routledge. a Social Contract in Pakistan, Cambridge University Press. Films Charlier, G., de Pomereu, J. and Dowdeswell, J., 2019. Captain Scott's Oppenheimer, C. 2016 Antarctic Photographs, 1911, Salto Into the Inferno, Netflix Ulbeek and Scott Polar Research Institute. Gandy, M. 2017 Natura Urbana – The Brachen of Berlin www.naturaurbana.org

So far in 2020 academics have produced or contributed to 130 publications, showing how dedicated our academics are to ensuring that their work is shared and contributing Bravo, M., 2019. North Pole to the wider body of geographical knowledge. Nature and Culture, Earth. 255pp.Routledge Studies in You can find information about all Urbanism and the City. recent publications on our website: www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/ Bennett, R.J., Smith, H., Lieshout, C.V., publications Lemanski, C., 2019. Montebruno, P. and Newton, G., 2019. The Age of Entrepreneurship Business Citizenship and Infrastructure Proprietors, Self-employment and Practices and Identities Corporations Since 1851, Routledge of Citizens and the State, International Studies in Business Routledge Studies in History. Urbanism and the City.

landmark 13 Research news Department news

Arrivals and Departures

This year we welcomed Victoria Barrett as MPhil Co-ordinator, Amy Donovan as Lecturer in Geography, Jennifer Goodwin as Assistant Departmental Administrator, Liam Herbert as Library and Information Manager, Edward Mayes as Atlas of 19th century Making Climate History Accounts Office Manager,Howard entrepreneurs from the This collaborative project is between Nelson as Affiliated Lecturer, census historians and geographers of Samantha Saville as Teaching A new resource was launched at science. It uses a combination Associate in Human Geography, Campop in early April enabling of documentary histories, oral Ayesha Siddiqi as University population studies researchers, recording, critical cartography Lecturer, Noura Wahby as ESRC DTP students and schools to look at and archival research to examine Research Fellow. the geography of entrepreneurs connections between the histories We have also welcomed Tom Fry, recorded in the censuses of England, of places, personnel, materials Elisabeth Gallant, Catherine Wales and Scotland for 1851-1911. and power during the period Oliver and Rory Walshe as This is a new database and Atlas of from the early nineteenth to the Research Associates. Entrepreneurship, which is available late twentieth centuries, a period at: www.bbce.uk/atlas that made and recognised both a We said goodbye to our Research global physics and a global climate. Associates Sandra Jasper, Maros The project is funded by the Krivy and Rachael Turton, Leverhulme Trust for 5 years (2019- University Lecturers William Kutz 2024) and is run jointly between and Iris Moller, and Institute the Departments of Geography Administrator Fiona Craig. (Professor Hulme) and the History and Philosophy of Science Retiring this year are Philip Stickler (Professors Staley and Schaffer). as Cartographer, Bill Adams as www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research- Moran Professor of Conservation projects/making-climate-history and Development, Robert Carter The future of atoll island as Librarian, Yasmiena Jones as habitability under climate Accounts Office Manager,Nigel change Leader-Williams as founding Director of Conservation Leadership. Tom Spencer is working with an international group on ‘The future Promotions of atoll island habitability under climate change’ (STORISK research Promotions 2019 project, funded by the Agence Iris Moller, Reader Nationale de la Recherche (France)) Ian Willis, Reader with workshops in Paris and, Promotions from Oct 2020 rather splendidly, the Laboratoire Michael Herzog, Reader d’Océanographie, Villefranche-sur- Charlotte Lemanski, Reader Mer, near Nice. Richard Powell, Reader Alice Reid, Reader

14 Summer 2020 I Edition 6 Awards and Prizes Accumulation: Judical robbery Geography Research Group of the and dispossession-by-restitution in RGS with IBG for his dissertation 2019 WS Bruce Medal Warsaw From Waste to West Africa: investigating NGO transformations Julian Dowdeswell Sara A. Whaley Book Prize and ‘scripting’ of second-hand awarded the Tara Cookson (PhD in Geography bicycles in The Gambia 2019 WS Bruce 2012-2015) awarded the National Medal from the Women’s Studies Association’s Sara Platinum Labs Standard for Royal Scottish A. Whaley Book Prize 2019 for her Green Impact Geographical Society for his book ‘Unjust Conditions: women’s Geography Science Laboratories contributions to glaciology and work and the hidden cost of cash awarded the top award of Platinum polar science transfer programs’ (University of Labs Standard for Green Impact Russian Academy of Sciences California Press, 2018). 2019-20 Ulf Buntgen elected EGRG’s dissertation prize Silver standard Green Impact as Foreign Member of Misbah Khatana, (supervised award the Russian Academy by Mia Gray) awarded the EGRG’s Department of Geography of Sciences (RAS) 2019 dissertation prize for her achieved the Silver standard Green PhD dissertation on Navigating Impact award for 2019-20 NCAR Publication Award Gendered Space: the social Anja Schmidt construction of labour markets in Athena SWAN Bronze Award awarded the 2019 Pakistan Department of Geography NCAR Outstanding received Athena SWAN Bronze Award Publication Award for Hague Journal of Diplomacy her paper on Global Article Award volcanic aerosol properties derived Judit Kuzchnitzki, PhD student Congratulations to for emissions, 1990-2014 supervised by Alex Jeffrey awarded the Hague Journal of Diplomacy students Pilkington Prize Article Award for her 2019 paper Harriet Allen was Navigating Discretion: a diplomatic We are immensely proud of our one the recipients practice in moments of socio- students and wish to congratulate of the prestigious political rupture them all on completing their studies 2019-20 Pilkington First prize for undergraduate and wish them every success for the Teaching Prize. future. dissertation CUSU Student-Led Teaching Paavan Sawjani, Sidney Sussex, This year 94 students completed their Awards 2020 (graduated July 2019) won first prize undergraduate studies with 46.8% Alex Jefferywas the winner of the for his undergraduate dissertation achieving a 1st or *1st, a fantastic CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards Sex and the Post-Colonial City: achievement. 2020: in the category ‘Supporting university students’ understanding Our current MPhil students are due to Students (non-academic)’ of the accepted boundaries of complete their studies in September Best Article Award public intimacy in New Delhi, and we look forward to celebrating India, awarded by the Geographies their success in due course. Joanna Kusiak, JRF of Children, Youth, and Families at King’s, awarded Research Group of the RGS with IBG. Twenty PhD candidates submitted the 2019 Best their theses in the past year. Article Award of the Dissertation prize International Journal Will Haslam, Emmanuel, of Urban and Regional Research for (graduated July 2019) awarded a Legal Technologies of Primitive dissertation prize from the Transport

landmark 15 Events We are pleased to announce that the Department of Geography will have two events as part of the Universities Alumni Festival 17-26 September 2020. All of the events in this year's Alumni Festival will be online. Details of how to register for these events will be sent out via the Cambridge University Alumni Relations office.

Living with Risk in the Anthropocene Year group representatives A panel discussion hosted by Head of Department We’re looking for individuals from each year group Professor Bhaskar Vira with Dame Fiona Reynolds, to serve as year group representatives and help to Professor Clive Oppenheimer, Dr Emma Mawdsley, involve fellow alumni involved in our activities. If Dr Howard Nelson you would be happy to represent your year, please Behind the label: Hidden stories from the Scott get in touch. [email protected] Polar Research Institute collections Reunions Showcasing some of the less known and sometimes Whilst we can’t currently support in person alumni sidelined stories behind items in our collection at reunions, if you would like to organise a virtual the Scott Polar Research Institute. Join us for pop-up reunion for your cohort please get in touch. talks with museum, archive and library experts! [email protected] Recordings of previous alumni events You can watch recordings of previous Geography Alumni events on our website.

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