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    • 33. Advice on how to start the Job Search before September!
    • 32. What Makes a Good Teacher/Lecturer?
    • 31. How *NOT* to do Fieldwork: A tale of mishaps from the field
    • 30. Masters: Mapping it Out (5) – The Transition from Masters to PhD
    • 29. Masters: Mapping it Out – A Day in The Life of a PhD Student
    • 28. Masters: Mapping it Out (number 3)-Top Tips when Applying for a PhD
    • 27. Masters: Mapping it Out (number 2)
    • 26. Life at Sea as a Scientist
    • 25. Tips for Masters Students Using a Translator for Fieldwork
    • 24. Masters: Mapping it Out
    • 23. PhD life: Surviving or Thriving?
    • 22. Geographies of PhDs: Applying in the UK and Canada
    • 21. How to apply for PhD funding?
    • 20. Overseas institutional visits
    • 19. Juggling ‘Post-Funding’ Life
    • 18. Coffee and editing: tales from the fourth year
    • 17. Questions for PhD students from Master’s students
    • 16. Academic jobs post-PhD (re-post)
    • 15. The many faces of academia
    • 14. Becoming a Masters student
    • 13. Reflections on starting a PhD: ‘One day, the shoes begin to fit’
    • 12. Reflections on PGF ACTS 2016
    • 11. Midterm Conference 2016
      • A) Matthew Scott
      • B) Matthew Whittle
      • C) Greg Thomas
      • D) Gemma Pearson
    • 10. Maps, Maps and More Maps
    • 9. Urban Ecology and Citizen Science
    • 8. A busy week
    • 7. Reflections of a Pseudo-Geographer
    • 6. Infiltration
    • 5. Supervision Purgatory
    • 4. A week in Manila: APEC, transcribing and Balut
    • 3. Of Networking and Newspapers: Reflections of a Bumper Week
    • 2. Field trips and Fiestas
    • 1. A very political week…
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      • 2016: Newcastle
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          • Drones and Geography: Moving Beyond Military Applications
          • New and Emerging Research within Gender and Feminist Geography
          • Contemporary and Future Debates for Postgraduate Population Geography
          • Participatory Geographies: Academia and Activism
          • The landscapes of leisure and tourism: the nexus of space, place and embodied experience.
          • Creative Practice and Improvisation within Methods: What happens when we get artistic with our research?
          • Postgraduate Impacts – Thinking beyond the thesis
          • Provocations and Possibilities of ‘Nexus Thinking’: Postgraduate Snapshots
          • Methodological Innovations in Postgraduate Research
      • 2015: Exeter
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The author realising that this might not all fit in the boot. Time for plan B. (Credit: Stephen Brough)

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