Reflections from the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2025
Taking a moment to reflect on the feminist activities at this year’s RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham. If you’d like to share your reflections, please contact Chloe via chloe.fox-robertson@manchester.ac.uk.
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Reflections from the RGS-IBG Conference 2023
Poppy Budworth, The University of Manchester
It has been a couple of weeks since the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in London, where thousands of Geographers (and non-Geographers alike) came together to share new and exciting ideas and research within the discipline.
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Taking Care: Navigating the RGS Annual Conference as Feminist Geographers
Poppy Budworth, University of Manchester
For the first time since 2019, the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Annual Conference will return to London for a three-day, hybrid event. The conference runs from Wednesday 30th August to Friday 1st September, with an opening plenary on Tuesday 29th August. We at the GFGRG have written this reflective blog to help you make the most of your conference experience.
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Publication to Protests: A Geographical Exploration of Power and Resistance in The Handmaid’s Tale
Georgia Silva, University of Nottingham, 2020 Dissertation Prize Winner
This dissertation uses Margaret Atwood’s novels The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and The Testaments (2019) alongside Hulu’s television adaptations as sites for geographical research. It explores the textual and visual representations of power and resistance within the fictional world of Gilead and within society today.
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Academia in Covid-19 times: Reflections on practice
As a group of feminist researchers we thought it pertinent to provide our reflections on how our current practices are being impacted by Covid-19 and the uncertainties surrounding the new conditions in which we find ourselves. The views posted below are individual reflections on one’s own circumstances. In publishing these, we hope to create a sense of solidarity around the struggles that some researchers are finding themselves immersed in.
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Research on women’s experiences of misogyny in Greater Manchester
Jess Bostock
In a survey I conducted in 2019, with 520 respondents from within Greater Manchester (GM) and a further 232 nationally, 75% of respondents stated that they had been groped, 65% had been followed, and 83% had been harassed in a public place.
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