Sophie Cranston

Research degree web page of the Department of Geography and Environment at Loughborough University, showing three students in conversation. The text reads: Geography and Environment is a dynamic and vibrant place to be a postgraduate researcher and we are proud of our reputation for creating a friendly, supportive working environment.

📣 Funded PhD studentships available! Apply for a @lborouniversity.bsky.social School of Social Sciences and Humanities Funded Studentship by 12 March:

1) Open call: www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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Professor Joanna Bullard (1969-2025) | Obituary It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Joanna Elizabeth Bullard, Professor of Physical Geography at Loughborough University.

We will be celebrating Jo Bullard's life on Thursday 4th December, from 2.30pm at Loughborough University.

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The @rgsibg.bsky.social have published an obituary of Jo:
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Film Screening Hosted by STAR STudent Action for Refugees Friday, 21 November 2025 17:15 Martin Hall — MHL014 Register by clicking the link or scanning the QR code below: https://forms.office.com/e/RRq1zSuigc?origin=lprLink We are screening Thank You For The Rain to commemorate Climate and Migrant Justice Day. The documentary follows Kisilu Musya, a Kenyan farmer who begins filming his daily life to show the real impacts of climate change on his community. Over five years, his story evolves from local struggle to global activism as he journeys to the UN climate talks in Paris. The film captures the personal toll of changing weather patterns while exposing the deep inequalities that shape who is heard (and who is not) in global climate debates. The screening will be followed by a discussion about climate and migrant justice.

🎥 Some of our geography PhD students are involved with the Loughborough group of @starnational.bsky.social and have organised a film screening and discussion of ‘Thank You For The Rain’ on Friday, 21/11 to commemorate Climate and Migrant Justice Day.

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Professor Joanna Bullard (1969-2025) We are incredibly sad to share news of the recent passing of Joanna Bullard, Professor of Physical Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment, School of Social Sciences and Humanities at...

Incredibly sad news from our Geography community at Loughborough www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

New paper: Infrastructures of Highly Skilled Family Migration: Political Economy of the Family in Migration

The paper examines the brokerage of time insecurity and transience through visas and international schools for skilled migrant families in Singapore

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The fieldcourse was a fantastic way for our students (and us) to learn about similarities and differences of higher education around in different national contexts. If anyone wants to know more, please get in touch.

Quite a different week this week, leading the first iteration of @lborogeog virtual fieldcourse visiting China, Germany, Finland, Uganda and South Africa! Thanks to everyone who contributed in #teamlboro and #teamglobal

A beautiful day at @lborouniversity.bsky.social for the first day of our Geographies of Education Virtual Fieldcourse! All those days in New York and in the UK when I prayed to wake up to nice weather and the one day I don't need it 😎🌞Today it's VR to visit to Hunan and Kassel Universities

Call for papers for the #RGSIBG25 conference! Do you think about time/temporality/timescapes in your research? We are looking for papers that engage broadly with these themes

See link below for more details. Deadline 26th Feb

PhD Studentship: Digital Gaming/Gambling Harms and Students: Financial Literacy and the Transition to Adulthood at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership Discover a PhD Studentship: PhD Studentship: Digital Gaming/Gambling Harms and Students: Financial Literacy and the Transition to Adulthood Explore more PhD opportunities and apply today!

New Collaborative Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP PhD opportunity based at Loughborough University in partnership w/ Ygam and University of Birmingham "Digital Gaming/Gambling Harms and Students: Financial Literacy and the Transition to Adulthood" - closes 21/02/25: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN128/p...

Closing Date this Friday 17th January 2025... #geosky #academicsky #PhD #gaming #gambling

The very one, alas, badly assembled by myself!

A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 1) Asymmetric patterns in territorial cooperation between core and periphery: The participation of Central and Eastern Europe in transnational and interregional cooperation programmes Márton Péti, Géza Salamin, Zsófia Nemes, Gábor Pörzse, László Csicsmann 2) Whose city is it: The impact of an intentional community on the city—A case study from Israel Hila Shlomi, Avinoam Meir, Nurit Alfasi 3) City on fire: The role of extortion in urban fires Enrique García-Tejeda, Gustavo Fondevila 4) Sorting paper: The archival labour of digitising land records in Kenya Ayona Datta, Dennis M. Muthama 5) Detected and projected temperature changes in the area of Mediterranean Montenegro Dragan Burić 6) Producing international students: Migration management and the making of population categories Sophie Cranston, James Esson 7) Temporal displacement and spatial unbinding of commuting in the Brno Metropolitan Area David Gorný 8) Is Norway on the pathway to green growth? Evidence on decoupling between GDP and environmental footprints Fernanda Miranda Cunha Tenorio, Erik Gomez-Baggethun 9) ‘Where’ is the evidence? A starting point for the development of place-based research reviews and their implications for wellbeing-related policymaking Shukru Esmene, Michael Leyshon, Petra de Braal, Hans de Bruin, Catherine Leyshon

A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 1) The imagined island: Colonialism and constructed remoteness on Diego Garcia Kate Motluk 2) ‘Left Behind’ neighbourhoods in England: Where they are and why they matter Victoria Houlden, Caitlin Robinson, Rachel Franklin, Francisco Rowe, Andy Pike 3) The interplay of politics and space: How elected politicians shape place-based policies and outcomes Sebastien Bourdin 4) Geopolinomic codes: Territorial and discursive practices of connectivity networks of political economy Hassan Noorali 5) What builds inter-municipal cooperation? Assumed and added effects of a metropolitan bicycle-sharing project Michał Adam Kwiatkowski, Elżbieta Grzelak-Kostulska, Jadwiga Biegańska 6) Is celebration of New Year and other festivals worth their environmental impact? Md. Ziaul Islam

📢New Issue alert!📢

December's Issue of The GJ is out now and available to read, with 9 of the 15 papers open access.

The GJ publishes work relating to 'public geographies' - get in touch with your ideas and submissions!

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959... #geo #geosky

Mental map of Loughborough and the Carillion tower

New item in lborogeog cabinet of curiosities alongside fabulous 1st year student map. Represents our current research project exploring place belonging among new arrivals to Loughborough / first-year teaching of @allanwatson1.bsky.social looking at sense of place

www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...

Hello. 🍄

I wonder if anyone knows of academics working on international or regional student mobility schemes (supporting short-duration mobility) outside of Europe? (For example, supporting intra-Asian mobilities).

Thank you. 🍂

Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Sophie Cranston & James Esson (2024) entitled 'Producing international students: Migration management and the making of population categories' with a blue banner at the top.

New OA paper in The GJ:

'Producing international students: Migration management and the making of population categories' by @sophiecranston.bsky.social & James Esson

This paper considers how UK migration policies 'produce' the international student as a population category

doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

PhD Advert: “Migrant and Refugee Communities: Digital Resilience and Skills for Citizenship” with myself and Dr Michelle Richey
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Come join me and my fab colleagues at Lboro Geography as a Lecturer in Human Geography! Applications welcome from any relevant specialism that can demonstrate how you will interact with, build on and develop agenda-setting geographical research and impact #geosky

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDD737/l...