Welcome to the Department of Geography and the November edition of King's Choice News.

In addition to offer holder news and useful links, we have picked stories from the Department to give you a taste of life as a King's student in Geography.

NOTICE BOARD

Questions

Do you have any questions about Geography and student life at King's.  Our student buddies are waiting to hear from you. Olivia is there for our BSc students and Scott can answer questions from our BA students.

To reach Scott and Olivia email sspp-student@kcl.ac.uk

MAARIA LOHIYA: NEW PODCAST

Maaria Lohiya, talks about her role as one of the King’s student representatives at the 8th UNICA Student Conference “Make it Happen! Student Action Plan”

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LONDON FIELDWEEK 2014

London Fieldweek 2014 involved a range of different field based learning for all of the new King’s Geography undergraduate students.

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DEPARTMENT NEWS UPDATE

Mark Pelling Grant Successes

Transformative Knowledge Network on Context, Culture and Environmental Risk.

News in that an ISSC seed funding grant in their Transformations to Sustainability Programme has won funding. This is one of 30 awards made from over 500 applicants.

The core aim of the grant is to help establish a network and framework through which to examine the role of culture as a lens on the design, uptake and outputs of Disaster Risk Management programming. Then to apply for more significant ISSC funds next year - three projects each of circa £1m to be funded and the seed funds are designed to build a pool of applicants.

Urban ARC

King's Centre for Integrated Research on Risk and Resilience, has been awarded the status of an International Centre of Excellence (ICoE) by the International Council of Science programme Integrated Research in Disaster Risk.  In particular the Centre has been noted for its scope to integrate the social and behavioural sciences with policy and practice communities in the UK and internationally.  The award is shared with UCL and the LSHTM with the intention of fostering collaborative research between these institutions.

Currently five other ICoEs exist globally hosted by: Academy of Sciences Taipei, China; University of South Carolina, USA; Massey University, New Zealand; Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, Colombia; Stellenbosch University, South Africa. 

Background on IRDR and their network of International Centres of Excellence is online.

ACADEMIC INTERVIEW: CLARE HERRICK

Clare Herrick, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Undergraduate Admissions Tutor, Cities Research Group

Why do you love geography?
Because it's a subject that allows me to research any question that I find interesting:  it's impossible to think through how and why things happen without also thinking about where they happen.

What are your research passions?
Questions about health: what we do, where we live, how we behave, the choices we make and how these impact our wellbeing.

Which undergraduate modules do you teach?
Principles of Geographical Inquiry 1, methods in Human geography and Health, Lifestyles and Cities

Why did you choose to work at King's?
Great colleagues and a wonderous location

Your secret London tip?
Walk everywhere, you see so much more.