We write in solidarity with our colleagues in the USA and internationally, who are suffering as efforts to increase equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are systematically eroded and destroyed. It is imperative to defend EDI principles at the national and the international level. Without efforts to diversify polar science, we will lose the best and […]
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By Christine Batchelor, Louise Callard, Becky Sanderson and Bethan Davies 1. Introduction Together with other colleagues from Newcastle University, we organised the Quaternary Research Association (QRA) Annual Discussion Meeting on 6 – 9th Jan 2025. The conference was attended by 130 people, and we had 100 submitted abstracts. There were 38 oral presentations, two keynote
This article is contributed by Dr Lizz Ultee based on their recent paper with Alex Robel and colleagues: For whom and by whom is glaciology? Robel et al., 2024. How do glaciologists choose what to work on? Group leaders more or less choose our own research questions according to what interests us. Many of us,
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Bethan Davies and Becky McCerery This article is aimed at both people who menstruate, and also fieldwork leaders who wish to better support their team. Menstruation is still sometimes seen as a taboo topic but it is something a menstruating person will have to consider when planning or undergoing fieldwork in remote environments. We need
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Our work in science communication, through this website and through related work in making videos, communicating with journalists and engaging with school groups, has attracted several external prizes. Geographical Association Silver Publishers’ Awards My outreach work has been honoured with 4 Silver Publishers’ Awards from the Geographical Association. In 2025, the Hidden Landscapes of Greenland
There is often a lot of doom and gloom in Academia. People discuss the workload, the work-life balance, and the difficulty in taking maternity leave or having a family. For example, this recent piece in The Guardian highlights one professor’s less-than-positive experience of having children as an academic. The Times Higher Ed writes about the
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Last autumn, I had two great pieces of news. The first was that I had been awarded a small grant to conduct three weeks’ fieldwork in Chile. The second was that I was pregnant. I was obviously immediately interested in other people’s stories about fieldwork while pregnant. I could find only a few blogs about
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