EGRG is pleased to announce that new for 2014, the EGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize is proudly sponsored by Sage. Winners receive copies of Global Shift, The Sage Handbook of Economic Geography, and a further £150 worth of Sage books.  For more information on the EGRG prizes and how to enter click here.

The winner of the 2014 UG prize will be announced – along with the PhD Prize winner – at the EGRG AGM,1.10pm to 2.25pm on Wednesday 27th August 2014. The Venue is the Lowther Room at the Royal Geographical Society.  See you there.

 

Generating Research Impact: Ethics, Politics and Practices

Date: Tuesday 26th August 2014

Venue: Education Centre, Royal Geographical Society (RGS), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR

Jointly organised by RGS-IBG Research Groups: EGRG, DARG, SCGRG and PolGRG

This workshop will take place on the day before the 2014 annual international conference of the RGS (with IBG). It brings together academics, including postgraduates, from across human geography to facilitate a critical focus and debate on the nature and implications of research impact, from research group perspectives across the discipline, including thinking more broadly and critically about what research impact means to us, and how it affects our work. The event includes group and roundtable debate, facilitated by five keynote talks.

Programme:

10:00-10:30 Registration & coffee

10:30-10:45 Welcome from Alex Hughes & introductions

10:45-12:00 Session 1: Tracking & Embedding Impact (Chair: Steve Musson)

• Dr Martin Walsh (Global Research Adviser, Oxfam GB, & Member of REF Main Panel C): Researching impacts: emerging lessons from the development sector
• Group discussion: How do we embed & track impact? How might we work with organisations to do this, and what are the challenges?

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 Session 2: Politics, Consequences & Communication of Impact (Chair: Rebecca Sandover)

• Professor Kevin Morgan (Cardiff School of Planning & Geography): The politics of sustainable school food reform (project recognised in ESRC Impact Annual Awards 2013)
• Hazel Edwards (Senior Engagement Manager – Arts & Humanities, Durham University): Research impact through partnership: the case of a Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum project
• Group discussion: How do we conduct research that shapes public policy/engagement? How do we address the political challenges associated with the generation & consequences of research impact? How do we communicate research impact?

14:30-15:00 Tea/coffee

15:00-16:30 Session 3: Conceptualising Impact & its Pathways (Chair: Karen Lai)

• Eloise Mellor (ESRC): Overview of ESRC’s current visions of impact
• Professor Nina Laurie (Newcastle University): Conceptualising impact in the global South: the case of a trafficking project
• Group discussion: How do we conceptualise and create pathways to impact? What kinds of skills are required to foster impact?

16:30 Workshop closes

18:15 RGS-IBG 2014 Annual conference opens

 

The event is free to students (current, registered graduate or doctoral studies), and £16 for all others.

To register for the event, you can book in one of two ways: (i) through the RGS website and online booking system (to add the workshop to your RGS annual conference booking) at www.rgs.org/AC2014Workshops or, if you are not attending the annual conference, (ii) by e-mailing Alex.Hughes@ncl.ac.uk and sending a cheque (if you are paying) for £16 made payable to ‘EGRG’ to Alex Hughes, School of Geography, Politics & Sociology, 5th Floor Claremont Tower, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU by 6th August.

 

• New Economic Geographies of Resources and the Environment – Caitlin McElroy
• Geographies of making: the jazz of participatory fabrication, improvisation and hackerspaces – Kenneth Lim
• Where culture meets economy: co-producing conceptual understandings of curation – Priya Vadi
• Geographies of Anti-/fascism in Eras of Austerity: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives – Anthony Ince
• Visualizing Economic Geographies (poster session) – Jon Swords
• What is the future of the ‘alternative economy’? – Agatha Hermann
• International Financial Centres and Regional Development – Sabine Dörry and Karen Lai
• Practice Theory and “Hybrid” Development-Economic Geography Research: Emerging Insights from North and South – James T. Murphy and Andrew Jones