Recent academic discourses highlight borders as dynamic forces influencing life beyond territorial demarcations. This paper examines belonging and citizenship by looking at the case of Bengali-spea...

Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.”

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He used a geographer’s tools to demonstrate that North Vietnamese civilian infrastructure had been deliberately attacked, threatening millions of lives.

Fieldwork is a pedagogical tool that sets geography apart from most other cognate social science and humanities disciplines. How can it be used to teach hope? This paper discusses this using the ex...

In the post-2008 world, the political climate is often determined by emotion rather than ideology.

This paper questions how competent physical and human geographers are at handling religion when they encounter it in passing. It specifically asks whether religious illiteracy is a problem in geogr...

Not long after defeat in Afghanistan, America has failed to win another war. Russia struggles in Ukraine. In a guest post, Nick Megoran asks why great powers struggle to win wars.

The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrates the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?

Once described as the ‘Balkans of central Asia’, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have managed ethnic and territorial tensions with great success.

Understanding SHAPE graduate trends, the skills graduates develop, and how they contribute to the economy and society

Border studies have recently been focussed on what happens when borders close, leaving the question of border reopenings both largely unexplored and unconceptualized. We argue here for a new focus ...

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My talk to the Tearfund conference, Building Just and Sustainable Peace, Lambeth Palace, London, 26 March 2026.

What are the practical means by which academic staff can get direct control over budgets and programme planning?

This assessment was shared by Murad Uzakov, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at the Institute for Strategic and R

An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.

"Good to see Manchester Piccadilly back west of the Pennines again"

The Research Council of Finland has awarded 2.5 million euros in funding for Alexander Diener’s professorship and the establishment of a new research group.

The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the RGS-IBG is pleased to extend an invitation to sponsor sessions at the next RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. The de…

Uzbekistan saw a significant rise in the number of international students in the first ten months of 2025, according to data from the National Statistics Committee.

In the summer of 1931 famed US aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, flew their Sirius aircraft from Washington DC, westward across northern Canada, Alaska and the Bering Strait to Japan an...

In a guest post, Nick Megoran, Professor of Geography at Newcastle Universty, contrasts the way churches sacralise the nation on Remembrance Sunday with the biblical call to be a 'holy nation'.

The paper examines the existing relationships between universities and Frontex, investigating and problematising the intersection between the higher education sector and the violence of the European ...

How should Christians respond to war? This age-old question has become more pressing given Western governments' recent overseas military interventions and th...

Prof Nick Megoran says the picnic on Aka island is as remarkable as the 1914 Christmas Day truce.

Will Tufan Erhürman's victory lead to a federal Cyprus? Whatever happens, the international community must help Turkish Cypriots realise their political will.

Border studies have recently been focussed on what happens when borders close, leaving the question of border reopenings both largely unexplored and unconceptualized. We argue here for a new focus ...

Delyth Liddell and guests discuss how to act now for a peaceful world.

AI is the greatest threat to our existence that we have ever faced. The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction – but it’s not too late to change course. Two pioneering ...

US institutions are facing threats to academic freedom from the Trump administration, yet they must also stay vigilant to authoritarianism from abroad. Here is what university leaders and academics ca...