Social and Cultural Geography Research Group

1.15 –

1.45pm

Registration

Wilkins Haldane Room

1.45 –

2.00pm

Introduction and welcome

Gail Davies (Geography, UCL; Chair, SCGRG)

Wilkins Haldane Room

2.00 –

3.30pm

Parallel workshop 1

Generating and gathering data in face of excess

Owain Jones (CCRI, Gloucester)

Chris Bear (Geography, Aberystwyth)

Wilkins Haldane Room

Experimentality, encounters and ethics

Jo Norcup (Geography, Glasgow)

Amanda Rogers

(Geography, Royal Holloway)

304, Pearson Building

3.30 –

4.00pm

Coffee

4.00 –

5.30pm

Parallel workshop 2

Collaborating and distributing expertise

Gail Davies (Geography, UCL)

Emma Roe (Geography, Southampton)

Wilkins Haldane Room

Interpretation and the challenge of making sense

Russell Hitchings (Geography, UCL)

Elaine Ho (Geography, Leeds)

304, Pearson Building

6.00pm

Dinner

Tas Bloomsbury, 22 Bloomsbury Street, London

9.00 –

9.30am

Arrivals and registration

9.30 –

10.00am

Opening

(Chair: Alexander Tan, Geography, Newcastle)

Alan Latham

Geography, UCL

10.00 –

11.30am

Paper session 1 –

Research encounters and processes

(Chair: Chris Bear, IGES, Aberystwyth)

Thomas Jellis

Geography, University of Oxford

Thomas.jellis@ouce.ok.ac.uk

Attentive participation: experimental spaces and events

Elinor Predota

Geography, Newcastle University

Elinor.predota@newcastle.ac.uk

Ways of weaving: human geography, transcendental empiricism and embodied enquiry

Imogen Wallace

Geography, Queen Mary

i.c.wallace@qmul.ac.uk

Can spaces be gatekeepers? Reflections on the spatial dynamics of the research encounter

Lucy Rose

Geography, Exeter University

lr266@exeter.ac.uk

Black Books: Archiving Creative Practice

11.30am –

12.00pm

Coffee

12.00 –

1.15pm

Paper session 2 –

Creative practices and experimentalism

(Chair: Harriet Hawkins, IGES, Aberystwyth)

Christian van Wissel

Sociology, Goldsmiths

c.wissel@gold.ac.uk

Urbanagnorisis: performing empirical knowledge in academia.

Michael Gallagher

Geography, University of Edinburgh

Michael.gallagher@ed.ac.uk

Some unanswerably large but nonetheless pressing questions about ‘audio-visual’ methodologies

Matt Wilkins

Geography, Exeter University

Mpw205@exeter.ac.uk

“Dance, surely not”: performance, publics and the pinning it down

1.15

–

2.00pm

Lunch

2.00 –

3.30pm

Paper session 3 –

Working with people and things

(Chair: Amanda Rogers, Geography, Royal Holloway)

James Thurgill

Geography, Royal Holloway

James_thurgill@hotmail.com

Researching the Immaterial

Linda Kaucher

Geography, London School of Economics

l.l.kaucher@lse.ac.uk

Uncovering the processes of the trade agenda; is it research?

Hilary Ramsden

Creative Arts, University of the West of England

hilwalk@gmail.com

Herding Cats: working with real People

Fiona McConnell

Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University

Fiona.mcconnell@ncl.ac.uk

Researching the ‘little things’ of statehood: the material and the mundane in the study of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile

3.30 –

3.45pm

Coffee

3.45 –

5.45pm

Panel session, discussion and closing remarks

(Chair: Gail Davies, Geography, UCL)

Celia Lury (Sociology, Goldsmiths)

David Demeritt (Geography, Kings)

Kye Askins (Geography, Northumbria)

Ben Anderson (Geography, Durham)

Malcolm Fairbrother (Geography, Bristol)