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Welcome to the Geography and the March 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.

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Learning Through Exploring Ladakh - 26 March 2014

Research Panel and Film screening of "Jungwa, The Broken Balance"

Sign-up for your place at the latest Intrepid Explorers' event organised by students in the Geography Department.

Work experience opportunity in the Geography Department

Would you like to find out more about doing research in a university geography department? Closing date is 1 June 2014.

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FIELDTRIP: KERALA, INDIA

Each year our second-year students go on fieldtrips at the end of Term 1. In this second newsletter we'll hear from students about their experiences in India. Rachael Morey and Stella Tselingas share their thoughts on this year's fieldtrip to India.

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INTERNSHIPS

A number of our students take advantage of the fact they are located in London and take up internships with the many organisations and companies with offices in the capital.  Other students make the most of the skills and expertise they gain while studying in the Department of Geography to land placements they wouldn't have otherwise been qualified to undertake.

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Joel Gill and Bruce Malamud at volcano in Guatemala
Ragnar Lofstedt's work quoted in Hansard
David Demeritt appointed to DEFRA/EA advisory board
Geography's Attollo Lingerie wins best pitch
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Andrew Brooks

ACADEMIC INTERVIEW: ANDREW BROOKS

Dr Andrew Brooks, Lecturer, Environment, Politics and Development Research Group

Why do you love geography?
I enjoy researching geography because I am interested in understanding international development and trying to explain why different regions of the world are rich and poor. Like many geographers, I am also keen to explore different places.

What are your research passions?
My research focuses on Southern Africa and I spent a year living in Mozambique. This is the part of the world to which I am always drawn. A politics of radical social change also motivates me to think differently about the world in which we live.

Which undergraduate courses do you teach?
• Geography Tutorials
• London Field week
• Geographical Foundations: The Making of the Modern World
• Development Geographies: Livelihoods and Policy Contexts
• Kerala, South India, Fieldtrip
• Economic and Social Change in Southern Africa

Why did you choose to work at King's?
King’s has a strong tradition of excellence in researching development geography and it is this expertise along with the world class location which attracted me to work here. Also having been an undergraduate at King’s it was great to return to the College and to see the Department grow and excel firsthand.

Your secret London tip?
Take your time familiarising yourself with the layout of the Buildings as the University has a very complicated Geography. Visit nearby Somerset House and the Courtauld Institute which have great collections you can access.

 

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