This is another in my occasional series of posts on stuff you might not be told but you will not in fact learn by osmotic immersion in the Academic Ether. (See also my posts on writing job applications, giving a job presentation and what to expect in a job interview.) This time: how to chair a conference session. As always, these are my thoughts - cross-check them with your peers, mentors, supervisors, best academic mates.

We've renamed our travel grant! Formerly the Jane Feuer Travel Grant, it has been reimagined as the CP Founders Memorial Travel Grant — now honoring all five feminist media studies scholars who...

I went to see In Other Worlds last week, the multimedia installation directed by Liam Young at the Barbican in London. I’m still a bit baffled by it, to be honest. photo by me It’s organised into six zones that you walk through one after the other. There’s a lot of video-like digital animation on big screens; there are some sculptural textile masks and scale models of buildings; there’s lots of fake rock and some presumably real tree trunks; there are life-size mannequins and various Barbie-sized dolls, all costumed; there is a lot of choral drone music; there’s an immersive 3D projection and a light installation.

Yes, I’ve been to see Barbie and Oppenheimer. Here are some thoughts on the latter. Well, one thought really: Oppenheimer the movie is so deeply wedded to the idea of the white straight male …

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

This online symposium, hosted by the Digital Geographies Research Group, asks how digital geographies can help frame and address complex issues.

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Call for PapersSpecial Issue of Big Data & Society on Trans Data Data and trans lives go - both fortunately and unfortunately - together. From surveillance systems seeking to normalise and control t...

I just finished reading Sarah Sharma’s new book Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech. It’s a sustained and wonderful piece of feminist technoscience writing, from a media studies scholar determined to forge a structural/strategic analysis of the white patriarchy that surrounds so much of contemporary digital tech and its hype. In one way, that white patriarchy is all too obvious.

The School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE), in association with Mansfield College, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School.

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A critical examination of the digital imagery and visualization tools that mediate urban lifeAnimated Urbanism explores the ways urban life is increasingly m...

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Dronotope: Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations - Beryl Pong – Macadam Building (MAC 405), Strand Campus, King’s College London, Mon 11 May 2026 - Data visualisations ofte...

Precarity is shaping what it means to do geography, who can do geographical research, and how we do geographical research. In this short intervention I reflect personally on the relationship between ...

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From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

Call for Papers Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media: An ADM+S Symposium 6-7 May 2026, QUT Kelvin Grove, Brisbane Authenticity is often at the centre of concer...

For Rex McKenzie, higher education assessment has always privileged certain discourses – but the rise of artificial intelligence means that this can no longer hold For Rex McKenzie, higher education...

I've just been browsing a fascinating collection of short essays, gathered by Ben Anderson and Vickie Zhang in the summer of 2025. They invited contributions on 'the promise of cultural geography' and put all the responses into an open-access book which you can download here. It's a wonderful initiative in many ways, not least in its openness to contributions and its publication as open access.