50th Anniversary Festival

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Webinar: Celebrating 50 years of PopGRG

The webinar formed part of the PopGRG 50th Anniversary Festival. Aimed at an academic audience, the purpose of the event is to:

  • Document the contributions, foci and practices of 50 years of the Research Group
  • Encourage debate on the research agenda for Population Geography
  • Raise the profile of Population Geography within and beyond the sub-discipline and UK
  • Inspire a broader engagement with PopGRG

You can find out more about the event and the invited speakers here . As well as our recent blog post capturing just some of the reflections emerging from the webinar: blog post

We thank all those attended to celebrate with us, catch up with the session on our YouTube channel: here

What is population geography?

Image Competition

As part of the celebrations, we launched a design competition with a partner school in Swansea. Young people were tasked to design an image that they felt best represents ‘Population Geography’. The competition had a panel of judges, with the final winner chosen by two artists, Pernille Spence and Sarah Tombs. These are renowned artists and we are very grateful for them giving their time to judge the competition.

It was fantastic to see the variety of pupils interpretations of population geography captured by the entries. The competition was judge across three categories, and an overall winner selected from the winners of each category.

The winning entry!

We are excited to announce that we have now re-imagined the PopGRG’s logo to incorporate the winning entry of the image competition, see below.

Careers from Population Geography

As part of our celebrations, we look forward to the next 50 years of thought, research and leadership from our emerging Population Geographers. In support, we are running an Early Career Workshop exploring careers from Population Geography.

Timeline and Archiving Project

Virtual Special Issue

Celebrating 50 years of Population Geography, we have looked back at articles published in the RGS-IBG journals, selecting key papers to bring together in a Virtual Special Issue.

see: https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12753v