o DEGREES NORTH GEOGRAPHY, HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AT KEELE UNIVERSITY Number 2, November 2017.

DR TONY PHILLIPS Two new Keele Geography Professors We are very sad to record the recent death of Tony Phillips, who have inaugural lectures in November. has been part of the fabric of Keele Geography for almost 50 years. He Simon Pemberton is now Professor of will be very much missed, and will Human Geography, specialising in be fondly remembered by many generations of students and planning and public policy. Chris colleagues. Fogwill is our new Professor of STUDENTS – ANY PROBLEMS? Glaciology and Palaeoclimatology. If you have any problems or questions, remember you can GEOSOC: Annual Winter Ball – guest speakers announced approach staff for help and advice GeoSoc have announced two exciting guest speakers for the at any time. You can raise issues as Annual Winter Ball, which is to be held on Friday the 16th of soon as you start to worry about February 2018. Dr Lynda Yorke a Physical Geographer from them, and we’ll try to resolve them Bangor University whose research interests includes fluvial and immediately. If you don’t know glacial geomorphology. Dr Helen Wilson who is a Social and who to contact, just get in touch Cultural Geographer from Durham University interested in with Peter Knight, Head of geographies of difference both human and non-human. Geography Programmes, who will be happy to help. The support that STAFF STUDENT VOICE OTHER NEWS we offer is part of what we think COMMITTEE • GeoSoc recently held a makes Keele Geography special! The SSVC meets each semester, Halloween bake sale that so be sure you know who your raised £100 for the British COMPETITION reps are and be sure they know Red Cross. The 10th student to email us your opinions about Keele • Dr Antonia Law has been (Peter Knight) the correct Geography. We need to know awarded funding from the LONGITUDE of the iconic how you think things are going. Quaternary Research landscape below wins the first of Queries? Contact Dr Dan Allen. Association to study the what we hope will be a regular aquatic ecology of proglacial series of 53°N prizes! DISSERTATION WORKSHOPS lake systems in Iceland. 3rd years: we run a series of • Dr Richard Waller has pop-in workshops to help with produced a series of physical your dissertations. These aren’t geography learning videos in the main timetable: watch for TimeForGeography.co.uk for email announcements. On 6th December, 1-2pm: “Bringing • See our twitter feed it all together” helps you to put @KeeleGeogs for a constant final touches to your project. stream of news!

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