As Chair of the 2011 RGS-IBG conference, I have cho sen as this year's conference
theme'The geographi cal imagination'. This has proved to be a perennial theme in …

Linking knowledge with action for effective societal responses to persistent problems of
unsustainability requires transformed, more open knowledge systems. Drawing on a broad …

Geography and Geographers continues to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date
overview of human geography available. It provides a survey of the major debates, key …

This essay aims to show what human geographers might gain from reflecting upon the
concept of wis dom and does so by means of an exploration of how being wise might relate …

In this paper we offer a critique and an alternative to current proposals to include the
economic and social impacts of research in the next UK audit of academic research. In …

The doing of material geographies within the subdiscipline of cultural geography has been
inspired by Jane Bennett's (2010) account of Vibrant Matter. This review follows the various …

It is often claimed that we live in'insecure times', surrounded and confounded by countless
chal-lenges to our personal, family, community, national and even global security. It is said …

Discussing the concept of mobility at large and that of spatial mobilities in particular, this
book makes the case for daily spatial mobilities as a distinct type of mobility and explores …

The recent moves towards incentivising 'impact'within the research funding system pose a
growing challenge to academic research practices, charged with producing both scientific …

Big changes to the way in which research funding is allocated to UK universities were
brought about in the Research Excellence Framework (REF), overseen by the Higher …