Jo Wilkin and Kate Rawlings The ability to automate the processing and analysis of data through programming is an increasingly sought-after skill in academic research and in the workplace. For Geographers, programming has traditionally not been taught as part of... Read more
Yazhen Yang is an SCDTP funded PhD candidate in the Department of Gerontology at the University of Southampton . Her PhD research is entitled: ‘Intergenerational Relations: The Changing Pattern of Economic, Social and Psychological Transfers within Chinese Families’. Intergenerational relations in China: What has changed over the last... Read more
Lisa Davison is a SCDTP-funded PhD student in the Department of Gerontology at the University of Southampton . Her PhD focuses on loneliness among informal caregivers aged 50+ across England, through secondary quantitative analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Other research interests include physical activity... Read more
Ben Brindle is an SCDTP-funded student in Economics. His PhD explores whether previous UK studies have failed to detect adverse wage or employment effects of immigration because the labour market adjusts by alternative means. Other research interests include environmental economics... Read more
Beatrice Tura is an SCDTP funded PhD candidate in the Department of Area Studies at the University of Portsmouth . Her PhD research focuses on Visual Representations of Minority Groups, Activism and the Everyday and she is particularly interested in how migrant ethnic minorities visualize place in an era of gentrification. She is... Read more
Dr Annabel Tremlett, one of the SCDTP’s Thematic Cluster Pathway coordinators (Population Change, Health and Wellbeing) has just opened an exhibition as part of a British Academy funded project to challenge common stereotypes of Roma, Gypsy and Traveller people. This... Read more
Come along with us on our trip to Iceland by following our daily blog, today’s entry is by Kate Harrison and Mair Thomas. Advertised as a ‘One-day Delight’ in the hotels free travel guide… yes, we are still students nabbing... Read more
Come along with us on our trip to Iceland by following our daily blog, today’s entry is by James Turner and Eliza Garwood. With hail stones pelting down and 55 km/h winds shaking the bus, the SCDTP made our way... Read more
Come along with us on our trip to Iceland by following our daily blog, today’s entry is by Alice Oliver and Matt Smith. Today was one action packed journey of events. To kick it all off it we immersed ourselves... Read more
Come along with us on our trip to Iceland by following our daily blog, today’s entry is by Shaun Williams and Philippa Broadbent. We started our second full day in Reykjavik with a visit to the National Queer Organisation of... Read more
Come along with us on our trip to Iceland by following our daily blog, today’s entry is by Pam Hanway and Sam Shorto. Day 1 Reykjavik…. Stepping outside the hotel after our first night’s stay in Reykjavik, I was pleasantly... Read more
Come along with us on our trip to Iceland by following our daily blog, today’s entry is by Megan Davis and Leanne Chrisostomou. As the plane descended into Reykjavik airport, we were thrilled to see the icy sparsely populated landscape, we... Read more