Department of Geography, King's College London

23/02/2023

Thinking about doing a postgraduate degree from King's?

Join the Postgraduate Virtual Open Week to learn about the courses we offer, and talk to our academics & students about their experiences.

Sign up for the 'Introduction to Geography' virtual session on 27 February from 17:00 to 17:45 GMT!

Register: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/pg-open-week-geography-27-february-2023

Explore the catalogue of courses offered across King's and their virtual introduction sessions: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-taught/events/virtual-open-week-subject-sessions

Join one of our Postgraduate virtual open week events to discover more about our range of postgraduate taught courses at King's.

30/03/2022

This is the last edition of Jet Stream for the semester. It features the brand-new logo for the newsletter, designed by a first-year student. There's mention of several upcoming opportunities including the launch of the climate education conversations (starting today!), a new wellbeing module called Time to Thrive for first year students and the Sustainability Team's careers workshops running in April. We also say goodbye to Lazara, Student Engagement Officer and Jet Stream Editor. Farewell 👋🏽.

This Friday 1 April, King’s Sport are running two wellbeing sessions - yoga and meditation, exclusively for King's Geography students. There are 17 spaces available for each. If you’d like to go, please email me stating which session you'd like to attend. It’ll be first come, first served: ...

24/03/2022

Anna Christoforou received the 'Best Thesis Award' from our Master’s in Geopolitics, Territory and Security last year. Her dissertation focused on the Australian parliamentary debate on the rights of Australian asylum seekers to adequate healthcare. In this blog, Anna discusses the steps the UK Government is taking to align themselves with Australia’s asylum policy. Anna is currently working at the Cabinet Office, and working on applying to PhD programmes in New Zealand, to continue research on the rights of refugees, and their representation in political rhetoric. Read her new blog here: https://tinyurl.com/yr3teafa 👏

10/03/2022

We want to know what being a postgraduate taught (Master's) student in Geography means to you!

PTES is now open to eligible postgraduate taught students and we encourage as many of you as possible to take part.

Use this opportunity to voice your views – tell us where we can improve your postgraduate student experience, what we should be doing more of and what is going well.

By completing the survey you’ll be making a positive impact as your responses will be used to help shape your course for future postgraduate students.

Plus, we will be donating £1 to the charity Centrepoint for every completed survey! Complete the survey now by following the link sent to you by [email protected]

And remember, responses to the survey are completely confidential, so you can share your honest views – make sure to complete the survey by Friday 17 June 2022.

09/03/2022

Hey all, check out this edition of Jet Stream! It features the release of the PTES survey, King's Wellbeing Survey and opportunities for postgraduate scholarships.

To all our Masters students - don’t miss the opportunity to voice your views and help shape your postgraduate taught course for future students. Use the link sent to you by [email protected] and complete PTES today! We'll give £1 to charity for each completed response received 🗳️.

02/03/2022

A number of our geography graduates have gone on to work at King's in the sustainability teams. Maria, Alexandra, Brooke, Lavinia and Tasnia have spoken to us about what they do in their current roles at the university and how their degrees have helped ♻️. Read what they have to say in this blog: https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/geography/2022/02/22/geography-graduates-in-sustainability-jobs/

23/02/2022

Enjoy the pieces from our alumni in this edition of Jet Stream, look out for the upcoming conferences that may pique your interest and remember we still need you to design our newsletter logo!

The Geography Society, GeogSoc, have launched their annual photography competition. Students and staff are invited to submit one photo per category (6) to be in with a chance of winning a £20 voucher from WEARTH. The winning entries will be displayed in an online gallery 📸. Submit by Thursday 3...

21/02/2022

King's College London is hosting a 'Postgraduate Virtual Open Week' from 28th February - 4th March. Sign up to the 'Introduction to Geography' talk on Wednesday 2nd March to learn about our Master's courses starting September 2022: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/pg-open-week-geography-2-march-2022

09/02/2022

In this new edition of Jet Stream, we have launched a logo competition! We want to give the newsletter a brand identity and we are calling on students to design a logo that will feature on its banners.

This bi-monthly edition also features the most recent minutes from the Student Voice meetings, opportunities to consider an ambassadorship with The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and the Faculty's Code of Conduct.

For the second year in a row, COVID-19 restrictions threatened to prevent fieldtrips for the Department. Although the trips usually take students overseas, the department were left with one question – should they cancel the trips entirely or give students the chance to explore what we have at home...

31/01/2022

The National Student Survey (NSS) is now open for final year undergrads to complete – let us know what you think about your course and university experience. Complete the NSS survey here (www.thestudentsurvey.co.uk). For every completed response we will donate £1 to charity.

21/01/2022

Happy Friday! This Jet Stream edition features the calendar for Sustainability Month in February, a great new blog about the experiences of the first term by a first-year undergraduate, and opportunities to become as a charity trustee, join a quiz night and attend a global festival 📅

You all received an email earlier this week letting you know that Study Café is now back up and running for this term. Some changes include that it's now run in room 5.07 (fifth floor) of Bush House, North East and that it starts from 1pm daily. As usual, there are three online MS Teams 'rooms' yo...