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...geography of the referendum vote tell us about the (increasingly dis-) United Kingdom? ...[Union flag illustration ] A referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union was held on 23rd June 2016. That day, 52% of those who voted recorded a vote to leave, with 48% voting for the UK to remain a member. The result came as a shock to governing elites both in the UK...

...Geography and Environmental Science degree. In my recent visit to Pune (Maharashtra, India), the city where I grew up, at the peak of Indian summer in May when the sweltering heat is beating down the streets, I was struck by the cool shade under large urban trees. It’s the kind of place where you want to be sipping sugarcane juice freshly made by a street hawker who has...

...geography and culture that matter. These are countries where high taxes are used to generate relatively equal societies where social mobility and income security are much greater as a result. These countries tend also to have rather homogenous societies and the evidence is that in many situations people prefer being with others like themselves. Meanwhile, at the bottom of...

...geography here in the geography department at the Open University. And I'm currently leading a research project called Smart Cities in the Making, learning from Milton Keynes. It's a two year research project. It started in January 2017, and it's funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, as well as the Open University. And in this podcast, what I'd like to do is...

...geography module DD205 Living in a Globalised World teaches us that territory and flow are two sides of the same coin; that borders connect as well as divide. Even at the height of Hungary’s determination to close its borders to the flow of oncoming migrants, it vigorously defended the right of free movement across Europe. The contradiction is more apparent than real,...

...geography through an analysis of the making of labour demands in Glasgow during the early twentieth century. The paper asserts how revisiting histories such as Red Clydeside reveals complexities within labour movements and links to more recent debates within labour geography. Archival research provides a relational account of the place-based politics of Glasgow that...

...well be diminished; moreover, where and when each country emerges from this pandemic is also unclear. We will be left with very uneven geographies of international student flows. The imaginations of post-COVID-19 futures must not only hold open the doors for students, but should also shine the torch on the internationalism on which higher education has always depended....