What we do?
The population Geography Research group (PopGRG) is one of the longest established Research Groups of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), and has been in existence since the middle of the 20th century. PopGRG promotes population geography broadly defined and supports population geographers by providing a forum for discussion and exchange, organising seminars, conferences and other events, and recognising outstanding student work through our prizes.
You can read our strategy for 2017-2020 here.
Who we are?
The PopGRG Committee membership as of September 2024 is as follows:
| Name | Committee Position | Term dates (start and end years) | |
| David McCollum | David.McCollum@st-andrews.ac.uk | Chair (& Data Controller) | 2023-2026 |
| Suzanne Beech | S.Beech@ulster.ac.uk | Secretary | 2023-2026 |
| Kate Botterill | Katherine.Botterill@glasgow.ac.uk | Treasurer | 2024-2027 |
| Rhys Dafydd Jones | rhj@aber.ac.uk | Events Officer | 2024-2026 |
| Sophie Cranston | S.Cranston@lboro.ac.uk | Events Officer | 2024-2026 |
| Catherine Waite | Catherine.Waite@northampton.ac.uk | Membership Officer | 2024-2026 |
| Paula Duffy | Paula.Duffy@abdn.ac.uk | Communications Officer | 2024-2026 |
| Ellen Hjort | elh103@aber.ac.uk | Communications Officer | 2025-2027 |
| Hannah Slocombe | hs283@st-andrews.ac.uk | Early Career Officer | 2025-2027 |
| Hebe Nicholson | Hebe.Nicholson@hutton.ac.uk | Prizes and Awards Officer | 2025-2027 |
If you are interested in joining the population geography research group committee as an ordinary member please do contact David.Mccollum@st-andrews.ac.uk
History
Drawing on the information collated during the first phase of the archiving project we have built a timeline of key events in the history of the research group from 1968 to 2022.
You can explore the timeline in more detail by clicking the button below:
If you have further information or ideas for events for inclusion on the timeline please contact us at populationgeographyrg@gmail.com
Chairs of the RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group:
2020- 2023 Sophie Cranston (Loughborough University)
2017-2020 Nissa Finney (University of St Andrews)
2014-2017 Ian Shuttleworth (Queen’s University Belfast)
2008-2014 Darren Smith (Loughborough University)
Population Geography 