Month: June 2020

The very first #WorldPeatlandsDay!

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Tuesday 2nd June, 2020, marked the first ever World Peatlands Day – a celebration of all things boggy, swampy, sucky, blanket-y, fen-y, etc.  The International Peatland Society launched the event in August 2019, to draw attention to peatlands as being a unique ecosystem type, with a unique set of values and challenges associated with their … Read more

And the award goes to…..Nina!

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Our very own Nina Laurie, Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, has been awarded a Busk Medal by the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and Institute of British Geographers (IBG), for her work with marginalised and indigenous people in South America and South Asia. … Read more

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