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Into the Inferno: Volcanology on film with Clive Oppenheimer Forum Theatre in an Age of Austerity: Mia Gray and Susan Smith explore Austerity Britain on stage
The Department of Geography alumni magazine
Inside Interview: James Blake
Staff Profile: Matthew Gandy
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10 Turtles of the Caribbean
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Welcome to the new-look landmark
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fter a few years’ hiatus, it’s my pleasure to bring you the latest version of Landmark, the magazine for alumni of the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. Landmark will be coming to you annually, packed full of news on Department research, events and alumni updates. We hope you enjoy it.
Since the last edition of Landmark in 2010, Cambridge Geography has continued to excel, regularly featuring at the top of league tables in teaching and research. Our staff of 35 academics publish groundbreaking research, win prizes, and attract large grants from many different sectors. On pages 6–9 you can read about two of the Department’s forays into popular culture: Prof Clive Oppenheimer writes of his award-winning Netflix documentary Into the Inferno, while Dr Mia Gray and Prof Susan Smith reflect on their nationwide theatre tour, exploring the effects of austerity on modern Britain. We are heralding the start of a new era as we say goodbye to a cohort of professors who have been with us since the 1980s, now embarking on their retirements, and welcome a new generation of researchers. On pages 10–11 you can read about our new Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography, Matthew Gandy, whose academic career has now come full circle, returning him to Cambridge where he studied as an undergraduate.
Our student population also continues to flourish, with over 300 undergraduate and around 130 graduate students all undertaking exciting research projects that take them all over the world: 2nd year student Julia Ganis writes of her work with the Jumby Bay Turtle Project on pages 12–13. The re-launch of Landmark is just the start of our alumni engagement programme as we begin preparations for celebrating 100 years of the Geography Tripos in 2019. From Michaelmas, we’ll be sending out a termly e-newsletter with updates on Department life and alumni activities. This will sit alongside our new alumni webpages and social media channels. We’ve also got a host of alumni events and projects planned for the years ahead- watch this space! We would really like to hear your thoughts on our plans: what kinds of news stories are of most interest to you? What events would you like to see being organised? What do you think our centenary celebrations should include? Please get in touch - I look forward to hearing from you.
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Interview James Blake (Sidney Sussex, BA 1996-95, PhD 1995-99), Chief Executive of the Youth Hostels Association and former Chief Executive of St Albans City and District Council was keynote speaker at our PhD Conference in April. Landmark caught up with him to discuss memories of Cambridge Geography, life in central and local government and his latest career move.
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chose to study geography because of its breadth. I was interested in lots of different things and geography offered that. I applied to Cambridge because of its reputation for geography and because I knew a few others who had enjoyed it. I was drawn to Sidney Sussex because it had a really dynamic team in Dick Chorley, Stuart Corbridge and Graham Smith, and it was exciting to be part of that.’
“ I’ve been involved in the YHA for a long time, and it’s something I’m passionate about. The YHA has its origins in the 1930s countryside movement, so I suppose, in a way, I’m returning to my environmental roots. ”
James remembers his undergraduate years as full of ‘fantastic people, who were very friendly but also intellectually stimulating. My favourite memory was the Part IB Majorca fieldtrip with Tim Bayliss-Smith and Linda McDowell. It was a great chance to apply geographical research to a nice holiday destination!’
Following 10 years in central government, rising to Senior Civil Servant, James was again ready to move: ‘I was feeling a little ivory – towered – I wanted to stop creating policies on local government and regeneration and actually deliver them.’ He became Head of Policy at St Albans Council, and eventually Chief Executive.
After his BA, James continued to PhD: ‘I stayed on because I felt I still had things I wanted to explore. I’d developed a deep interest in environmental geography, linked to Sue Owens’ research unit, which was doing a lot of exciting things.’ But, after four years, James was looking for a change: ‘I wanted people to read my work beyond Sue, my examiners (and maybe my Dad!).’ He joined the Civil Service Fast Stream and was placed in the Department of the Environment. Moving into central government had some revelations: ‘I went from having a huge amount of knowledge and no connections to having all the connections and no time to think!’ However, James’s geographical training helped him transition: ‘I think geography, more than any other subject, bridges the gulf between research and practice. Geographers gain skills in fieldwork, information collection and analysis, but also in assembling varied perspectives. This makes for grounded, rounded graduates who can adapt to different work environments.’
James still uses geography today: ‘It’s local government’s job to understand places and communities - what geography is all about. For example, I deal a lot with debates on the balance between providing affordable housing and protecting green belt land, something Sue explored in the 1990s. My PhD was on how to understand environmental values and translate them into action, and now I work to get people recycling.’ After a successful eight years, James is moving on again to become Chief Executive of the Youth Hostels Association: ‘I’ve been involved in the YHA for a long time, and it’s something I’m passionate about. The YHA has its origins in the 1930s countryside movement, so I suppose, in a way, I’m returning to my environmental roots.’ So, what advice does James have for today’s geographers? ‘Grab all the opportunities you can, but wherever you go, hold onto your geographical mindset – and take confidence from it. Remember, once a geographer, always a geographer!’
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e o th Int rno e Inf Clive Oppenheimer Professor of Volcanology
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ack in 1994, the year I joined the Department of Geography, I found myself in Klyuchi City, in the Russian Far East. It was there that I first met a fellow volcanologist who would later become one of my closest colleagues. He was prone to spending boreal summers in Kamchatka and austral ones in Antarctica. He liked my spectrometers (they have been admired by many over the years), and intimated that one day there might be a chance to join him on Mount Erebus, on whose slopes Scott and Shackleton sojourned more than a century ago. My first visit to the volcano, which dominates Ross Island, was in 2003. Around the same time, Werner Herzog was working on the film The Wild Blue Yonder. What started out as a movie on life aboard the Space Shuttle transformed, under the director’s spell, into a yarn about astronauts escaping a plagued Earth to colonise an extrasolar planet – the
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Wild Blue Yonder. When the spacemen arrive, they descend through a liquid atmosphere. For this, Werner Herzog employed underwater footage shot by a friend beneath the ice shelf that grips Ross Island. But Herzog wanted to see Antarctica for himself. These convoluted histories led to a serendipitous encounter between volcanologist and filmmaker in 2006, in a remote field camp close to the steaming (and sporadically explosive) crater of Mount Erebus. Herzog was then making Encounters at the End of the World (which went on to receive an academy award nomination). We fell in – not the crater, I hasten to add – and kept in touch. Five years on, a book I had been labouring on since joining the Department was published – Eruptions that Shook the World. I sent Herzog a copy, in which I wrote something along the lines of: ‘you’re not done with volcanoes yet’. I soon received his enthusiastic and affirmative response.
I thought the combination of volcanoes plus fossils in the Ethiopian Rift Valley, village chiefs sustaining traditional lore, a carpenter at Java’s Herzog would be an easy sell, but it took us “Chicken Church” (curiously aligned with Merapi three years to secure financing for our film. The volcano), and dedicated volcanologists. Of all working title, Into the Inferno, which I suggested the contributors, special mention must go to as a joke over lunch with Herzog and the producers back in 2012, stuck. Ultimately, Netflix Chief Moses from Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. It is his commentary – sincere and profound, backed us with a full commission. This gave us sometimes playful, sometimes solemn – that vast freedom – more often, a consortium of bookends the film. sponsors and networks needs to be placated, each eager to influence the production. We A wonderful aspect of volcanology is that filmed in bursts, starting in DPR (North) Korea it interfaces with so many other disciplines in August 2015 and ending in Indonesia and and topics: climate science, anthropology Vanuatu in May 2016. In between we trained and archaeology, ecology, risk analysis and our cameras on the oceanic and continental communication, health, planetary science, hotspots of, respectively, Iceland and Ethiopia. catastrophism, evolution, mathematics, history, Post-production – editing, adding narration art, mythology, religion – I could continue... We and music, titles and so on – was rapid, and are all fascinated by by the beginning volcanoes – even if we “Nothing was scripted of September 2016, live far from a tectonic we could bring Into or choreographed; there plate margin – and the Inferno to the were no storyboards. Our mesmerised when we Telluride Film Festival in observe them at work, main characters were Colorado. whether on film or ‘live’ the volcanoes and their on site. Our reactions Nothing was scripted or are not simply due to underworld spirits and gods“ choreographed; there the pyrotechnic marvel. were no storyboards. I believe there is something more atavistic and Our main characters were the volcanoes and visceral to our response. Of course, it is partly a their underworld spirits and gods – thereby realisation of our insignificance in the context connecting the sources of magma in the inner of immense quantities of volcanic energy, Earth with the myths and cosmologies of the but perhaps there is also an echo of ancient communities worldwide that live on volcanoes. experiences, 100,000 years ago, in the faulted, Of course, we also drew on the testimony of volcanic landscape of East Africa. Our ancestors an array of interlocutors – hunters of human drank from the Rift lakes, fashioned precision tools from obsidian lava rock, and, from time to time, fled from colossal eruptions, forcing us to hone cognitive and social skills as they encountered new terrains and communities. We may, ultimately be made of star stuff, as Carl Sagan put it. But that dust condensed into planetary systems, was fused and remobilised countless times on Earth through the actions of mantle convection and tectonism, with volcanoes acting as vital apertures delivering the lighter constituents of the planetary interior – carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen – to the atmosphere we breathe. Volcanoes and volcanism mean more than beauty and menace. They are landscapes and forces that have helped to shape, stimulate and animate us; to forge and fashion our qualities and abilities: reasoning, apprehension, reverence, adaptability, resilience...
“[Into the Inferno] is an exhilarating trip, filled with strange stories, fascinating rituals and ethereally beautiful images of bubbling magma... Mr. Oppenheimer is a charming interlocutor and, with his easy manner... he soon becomes an emblem for scientific inquiry at its most accessible and exciting. He grounds the movie in science but he also helps give it a conversational lightness... It’s a winning, sneakily warming division of labor partly because this is also a documentary about friendship.” New York Times 27 October 2016
Find out more: Into the Inferno is available on Netflix
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Forum Theatre in an Age of Austerity Dr Mia Gray and Professor Susan Smith (Mistress of Girton College) have developed an innovative new way to engage the public in their research. Their project - a collaboration with Patrick Morris of Menagerie Theatre Company - is based around a newly-written play entitled A Week in the Life of Megan K. It is, however, no ordinary piece of theatre...
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n the play, Megan K finds herself caught in the maze of modern austerity Britain - bouncing between precarious work, a contracting benefits system, and the sharp end of financial hardship. Her fate is partly shaped by the script, which is rooted in Gray and Smith’s research, and partly by the audience. The play is a piece of ‘forum theatre’: a method, first developed by the Brazilian director Augusto Boal, which turns the audience into ‘spect-actors’ who are able to comment on and intervene in the action happening on stage.
“I wasn’t sure how it would go for the second half, but everyone got straight into it”
Menagerie Theatre Company are a local Cambridge organisation with extensive experience of developing forum theatre projects with academia and the third sector. Gray and Smith have published widely on issues like housing, precarious work and austerity - topics which, strangely, policy makers, academics and the general public rarely discuss with one another. As collaborative partners, Menagerie, Gray and Smith have therefore been able to translate painstaking research into an engaging, interactive theatrical experience. A Week in the Life of Megan K uses forum theatre to encourage audiences to explore the justifications for, and impacts of, UK austerity policy. This is particularly important as political debates around austerity tend to hide the public issues driving budget cuts in bland statements that give little sense of lived experience. 8
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As the play unfolds, however, the impacts of austerity become clear. It is the often-unexpected ways in which austerity measures combine that cut into individual and community wellbeing. The characters in the play lay bare the cultural and political tensions that drive austerity, and the limited control that individuals have over the bureaucracies that shape their lives. Audience interventions address further crucial questions: Can individuals divided over cash be united by a belief in the ethics of care? Is low paid and precarious work better than nothing at all? Does a more ‘flexible’ benefits system promote independence or entrapment?
The tour After launching at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas in October 2016, the play's first tour was to non-theatre venues in Cambridge, Great Yarmouth, County Durham, Walsall, Norwich and London. Performances took place in a church hall, a community centre, a former miners' reading room, a university lecture theatre and a trade union office: places intimately connected to the everyday life of each locale. After the play was presented, audiences were invited to 'rewind', enabling them to guide the characters' actions and responses, or even to get up on stage in place of (or alongside) the professionals and change the plot.
Collaborating with local people in safe, familiar spaces gave audiences the confidence to be bold, even daring, in introducing new options and articulating hidden concerns. Every single performance generated a high level of public debate and a host of new ideas. One participant said of the production: ‘the performers were fantastic at getting the audience to think for themselves, listen to each other, disagree with each other. I felt like part of a community of people wanting to help each other by the end,’ while another stated: ‘I wasn't sure how it would go for the second half, but everyone got straight into it, that's really a testament to the performance and the way it provoked people to want to do something, it's really exciting to see people so engaged and thinking about what's going on.’
in formal or conventional settings, and to create new channels for information exchange in public affairs. Forum theatre is a power-filled space in which professional boundaries are, temporarily, broken down and crossed over, exposing truths that may be too complex to write about or too invisible to see. Some of the partners who hosted performances are keen to continue the collaboration and get involved in a larger UK-wide tour of the play, for which funding is currently being sought. This would allow the project to explore sentiments being aroused by budgeting for Brexit, and draw the widest possible cross-section of the public into debates central to modern Britain. Watch this space!
Where next? One aim of the play is to offer audiences the tools they need to join a debate that is too often dominated by politicians and bureaucrats. The hope is to encourage greater engagement with topics that are hard to articulate
Find out more: Watch The Great Austerity Debate film on the University of Cambridge Youtube Channel
All Images by Andrew Wilkinson www.andrewwilkinsonphotography.com
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Staff Profile
Matthew Gandy (St Catharine’s 1985–88), now Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography (King’s)
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or me geography has always been a way of making sense of the world around us: whether this be the extraordinary landscapes we can observe from the window of an aeroplane or the street-by-street differences we encounter when exploring a city for the first time. But geography is far more than a series of encounters with the ‘field’ as an observable domain, and encompasses ideas, processes, and fundamental questions about what it means to be human. My research career began with a PhD at the London School of Economics that compared environmental policy making in London and Hamburg. By the time I completed my thesis in 1992, however, the UK was in recession, there were very few academic jobs, and I ended up working as a ‘waste specialist’ for an engineering company in Croydon, South London. I eventually spotted an advert for a one-year geography
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post at Sussex University – they offered me the job, along with a pay cut, and I’ve never looked back. After arriving at Sussex I quickly branched out with work on cinematic landscapes, environmental philosophy, and anything else that seemed interesting. Whilst at Sussex I received a research fellowship that took me to Columbia University in New York City and I began work on a book manuscript that would become Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City. I’ve always believed in the importance of writing books despite the contrary advice that one often hears: my North American experience has been pivotal to my view that books are not only crucial for individual career development but also for the relative status of disciplines within the academy. In the autumn of 1997 I moved from Sussex to University College London. I then worked at UCL for 18 years, expanding my work into new
“I think the geographical imagination flourishes best at the interface between theory and practice” Photographer Nathan Pitt ©University of Cambridge
contexts such as India and Nigeria, and I also set up the UCL Urban Laboratory. My time at UCL saw the regrettable introduction of student fees and a changing atmosphere in academic life; my on-going experience of working in Germany has demonstrated that none of these developments are inevitable.
My first two years at Cambridge have been a fantastic experience: highlights for me have been assembling the team for my European Research Council funded project Rethinking Urban Nature and also running the Berlin fieldclass—the student essays were among the best I have ever seen!
In the autumn of 2015 I arrived in Cambridge as Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography. This is actually my second experience of geography at Cambridge: I completed an undergraduate degree here in the 1980s. To my delight I was also offered a professorial fellowship at King’s College: I later discovered that their last Professor of Geography had been Henry Clifford Darby in the mid-1970s. I met him only once at a dinner in the late 1980s and he chastised me for not toasting the Queen (I am a republican). Instead of quarrelling about etiquette we should have talked about the fens (Darby wrote some of the classic works on the landscape of East Anglia).
I think the geographical imagination flourishes best at the interface between theory and practice: those serendipitous moments where we notice something different or interesting about the world. It is then that I invariably realize that I have forgotten my notebook and must frantically scribble my ideas onto any scrap of paper to hand.
Find out more: Visit Matthew’s research project page www.rethinkingurbannature.org
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Turtles of the Caribbean The Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project
Julia Ganis, Emmanuel, 2nd year undergraduate
On a small island to the North East of the mainland of Antigua you will find the Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project. This project has studied the nesting habitats of the endangered hawksbill sea turtle for 30 years, and in 2014 I spent four weeks working with them...
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About the project
What does the project do?
The project studies the life history and population dynamics of the hawksbill turtle. The main aim is to tag every turtle that comes up and nests, and to record the location of each nest. This is done via hourly patrols of the beaches from sunrise to sunset in the hope that the findings will serve as a foundation for wise management and sound, scientificallygrounded policy making. The hawksbill turtle is currently critically endangered and the more we know about this delicate species, the more we can educate those in the area about what affects them, and therefore hope that protective policies are put in place.
The main aim of the project is to record the nesting site of every turtle that comes up to nest. Once the turtle starts laying they enter a hormonal trance and then they can be processed. The first step is to see who the turtle is, identified by a tag in their flipper or a sequence drilled into their shell. If the turtle is new to the beach, the research assistants will create a new tag for her. The next job is to take “environmentals”: these are the details about the nest – where it is, what the weather’s like, what vegetation it’s in etc. The final step is then to note observations about the turtle herself, for example if there is any indication
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of predation. By doing all this, the team can begin to put together data of which turtles nest when, where they prefer to nest, and for how much of their life they can nest. Once the eggs have hatched, following an incubation period of 55-70 days, the team can undertake nest excavations. Nest excavations involve digging out the nest and counting the number of broken eggshells and unopened eggs. This is not always the most pleasant of jobs, with nests often containing many rotten eggs, however some hatchlings can still be found making their way out of the nest during excavation. All this data is then recorded to give an indication of the nest success. So the main reason to do nest excavations (other than to find baby turtles) is to collect data that gives an indication of which environments support a healthier nest.
The future The Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project is going to continue collecting data for the foreseeable future, and I will be returning to work with them again this summer to undertake my dissertation research, looking at how projected sea level rise could affect the nesting habitats on the island. Sea turtles have been around for 100 million years, and we need to act now to protect these majestic and important species. If you would like to find out more about the project visit www.jbhp.org
This article originally appeared in Compass, the magazine of Cambridge University Geographical Society.
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News
Department news Arrivals and Departures This year we welcomed Prof Christine Lane as 1993 Professor of Geography from the University of Manchester, Prof Ulf Buentgen as Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis from the Swiss Federal Research Institute, Dr Richard Powell as University Lecturer from the University of Oxford and will soon welcome Prof Mike Hulme as Chair in Human Geography from King’s College London. Laura Healy became our new Laboratory Technician and Katrina Purser our Graduate Administrator. We are saying goodbye to Dr David Beckingham (Sidney Sussex) who is taking up a post in Nottingham, Dr Alice Evans who is moving to King’s College London, Dr Jess Hope who is moving to the University of Bristol and Prof Phil Gibbard, who is retiring. Among support staff, Jan Parsons (Senior Secretary), Gae Matthews (Graduate Administrator) and Kate Gilbert (SPRI Administrator) have retired. We wish them all the best!
Eleventh Victoria Medal Win In June, Professor Emertius Andrew Cliff was awarded the prestigious Royal Geographic Society Victoria Medal for research excellence in spatial epidemiology. He is the eleventh Cambridge academic to receive the award.
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Bhaskar Vira delivers UN keynote Professor of Political Economy Bhaskar Vira delivered the keynote address at the 12th Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests and Food Security in New York in May.
Charlotte Lemanski wins Geographical Association award In April, Dr Charlotte Lemanski won a Geographical Association Journal Article award for her article 'Poverty: multiple perspectives and strategies' published in Geography, Spring 2016. The award is voted for by Association members on their website.
Muddy fun at the Cambridge Science Festival 2017 A team of academics and graduate students ran a day of mud-themed activities as part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2017. Attended by over 300 people, visitors got hands on with an interactive sandpit landscape, viewed pollen through a microscope, and tested their flood defences in our flume.
Research news Increasing UK productivity through city support- ESRC briefing
Researchers from the City Evolutions project, led by Professor of Economic Geography Ron Martin, examined productivity growth in 85 British cities for the period 1971-2014. The team explored how patterns in productivity were affected by changes in the cities' economic structures. From this they have published the ESRC briefing paper ‘Increasing UK productivity through city support’ which contains important policy implications for improving productivity within the UK's cities.
Using big data to observe fungal species on a massive scale A team including Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis Ulf Buentgen have assembled a crossEuropean meta-database of fungal species. This database, which contains 6 million records of more than 10,000
species across nine countries, drew from a wide range of sources: from citizen science projects to digitized museum records. Such metadatabases can offer unique insights into climate change effects on fungal phenology and fruiting patterns in recent decades.
Cambridge Coastal Research Unit explores salt marshes and climate change
Filming by the BBC for Countryfile at the Botanic Garden Research by the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit explores how changing environmental conditions affect saltmarsh growth. Saltmarshes play a vital role in protecting coastlines from storm surges, but they are likely to be affected by elevated levels of CO2 and changing nutrient availability. The study used saltmarsh blocks from the Essex marshes grown under different climate change scenarios in Cambridge Botanic Garden and found that elevated CO2 levels could increase the resilience of saltmarshes in vulnerable systems such as those with low mineral sediment supply. The project was also featured on the BBC’s Countryfile.
Alumni news
1964 Reunion
Facing the Mountain film screening In February the Department hosted a screening of Facing the Mountain, a film co-directed by geography graduate Ross Harrison. The film explores the extreme flash flooding that hit Kedarnath, a sacred Hindu temple in northern India, in June 2013. Through the words of survivors, local elders and new visitors, the film serves as a portrait of a place where the events of 2013 have become part of a larger story: one of resilience, of faith, and of eternal change in the Himalayas.
Geography alumnus sparks diplomatic incident... with a boar
Geography alumnus and Ambassador to Austria Leigh Turner (Downing, 1979) made headlines in May when he wrote in his ambassadorial blog about a run-in that he'd had with a wild boar on the outskirts of Vienna. Luckily both he and the boar escaped unharmed.
On 3 June 2017 we welcomed 31 Geography alumni who matriculated in 1964 back to the Department. They heard talks from the Head of Department and current undergraduate and postgraduate students and toured an exhibition of recent Department activities before an excellent lunch in Downing College. If you would be interested in organising a reunion for your year group, please get in touch.
New alumni webpages launched
The Department is delighted to announce the launch of its new alumni webpages at www.geog.cam. ac.uk/alumni. The webpages bring together alumni updates, newsletters and magazines, information on events and alumni benefits, and a treasure trove of Departmental memories and history. Come and see for yourself!
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Celebrating 100 years of Cambridge Geography In the Department, we are getting ready to celebrate 100 years of the Geography Tripos in 2019. Here are some ways that you can get involved: Save the date! The alumni celebration day for the Department centenary will take place on Saturday 22 June 2019. Bookings will open next year. Send us your records of life in the Department. To mark our centenary, we’re compiling a new archive of the last 100 years of the Department of Geography. For this, we’d love to have photos, written reminiscences and memorabilia of your time in the Department. Please send to the contact details below. We will take copies and return the originals to you.
programme. If you would be interested in being involved, please write to or email us on the contacts below. Volunteer as a year representative. We’re looking for individuals from each year group to serve as year representatives and help us get fellow alumni involved in our activities. If you would be happy to represent your year, please get in touch.
Advise us on our centenary programme. We’re looking for alumni to take part in an afternoon consultation to advise us on the planning and delivery of our centenary and alumni engagement
Help organise a reunion. In the lead up to our centenary, we’re looking to organise a series of alumni reunions here in the Department – but to do this we need your help! Is your year coming up to an important anniversary? Could you work with us to organise a reunion in the Department for your year group? If so, please contact us on the details below.
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