Are you curious about what it’s like to study Geography at the University of Brighton? Join us for an engaging online taster session designed to help you get a glimpse of university life and dive deeper into the area of human geography and spatial politics. Continue reading “Join us for a geography taster session on the history of LGBTQ+ spaces “
Dr Matthew Brolly’s research on “foodscapes” studies the complex habitats that sustain wildlife, particularly large herbivores like deer, in Mediterranean ecosystems.
The INCREMENTO and MULTISPECTRAL projects, which focus on wild ungulate foodscapes using controlled deer populations to study their impacts, exemplify this by exploring how these animals interact with their surroundings and respond to changing vegetation availability and habitat quality. Continue reading “GIS and Remote Sensing for Detecting and Managing Wildlife Foodscapes”
November 19th 2024 is World Toilet Day! This year’s theme, “Toilets: A place for peace”, emphasizes the importance of safe and secure sanitation facilities, which are essential to our daily lives.
Unfortunately, billions of people face threats to sanitation due to conflict, climate change, natural disasters, and neglect, leading to a global sanitation crisis. Currently, 3.6 billion people live with inadequate toilets that harm their health and/or pollute the environment. Conflicts and extreme weather can disrupt sanitation services, and when toilet systems fail or are absent, untreated human waste contaminates the environment, spreading deadly diseases like cholera. It is therefore crucial for governments to ensure that sanitation and water services are resilient, effective, and accessible to all.
Continue reading “UoB Researchers Tackle Global Sanitation Challenges in Bangladesh”
Third year students from our Geography and Environment courses travelled to London this November, as part of our popular Geographies of Genders and Sexualities module. Taught by Dr Nick McGlynn and Dr Paul Gilchrist, this module teaches students to use geographic thinking to better understand contemporary issues. Crucially, though we love Brighton, it’s important to get away and investigate other sites! For this module we visit London, and particularly the famous Soho area.
Continue reading “Geography/Environment Field Trip: Exploring London’s Changing LGBTQ+ Spaces “
Given that Brighton is seen as the LGBTQ+ capital of the UK, it’s natural that we cover issues relating to sexuality in our Geography and Environment degrees. Students can even take our specialist module on Geographies of Genders and Sexualities in their third year. Cementing our reputation in this area, this year we brought the world’s only regular conference that unites Geography and sexuality to Brighton. Continue reading “European Geographies of Sexualities Conference comes to Brighton”
Our Moulsecoomb campus open days take place on Saturday 19 October and Saturday 23 November.
Dr Lorna Linch, our resident expert in cold environments at the University of Brighton, recently completed a short Alpine prep course in the Cairngorms, Scotland. The course aims to provide the rock climbing and mountaineering skills needed to operate in Alpine environments.
Continue reading “Preparing for the Alps, in the Scottish Highlands”
Lorna Linch is course leader for Geography BSc(Hons), in this post we find out more about what she teaches, how she likes to teach and her research interests.
As well as being course leader for Geography BSc(Hons) I am involved in teaching several modules for the Geography and Environment courses from Foundation through to Masters level. My main teaching interests are in glacial and periglacial processes and geomorphology; palaeoglaciology and reconstructing Quaternary environments; glacial pollutants and contaminants; and sedimentology and micromorphology. Examples of some undergraduate modules I teach on are Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Earth Surface Processes, Ice Age Earth and The Frozen Planet.
Continue reading “Meet Dr Lorna Linch”
Hi I’m Jade and I’m a first year studying Biological Sciences BSc(Hons) and here’s what I think of the course so far…
I chose this course as I’ve been interested in biology for many years, and I like that this course specifically allows you to cater it more specifically to yourself with how many option modules there are for later years. I chose Brighton as I’ve lived rather locally my whole life, and I’m enjoying being able to study whilst also still getting to live at home.
Continue reading “My course so far”
To take a break from studies this February, 40 students and staff from Geography, Environment and Ecology courses decided to get out of the city for a casual social event. The chosen location was Devil’s Dyke. With its deep ice-cut valley, its wildlife, its folk legends and its panoramic views across the South Downs, this was the perfect place to roam around on a Saturday afternoon! And being just 20 minutes from the city by bus, it’s easy to travel to any time.
Continue reading “Nature walk and social at Devil’s Dyke”