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Postgraduate Group

This group works together to develop activities that will add value to the provision for postgraduate students across the region. Their activities include developing collaborative opportunities for postgraduate students, developing training for postgraduate trainers, responding to relevant funding calls, investigating opportunities to enhance the employability of postgraduate students.

The group host an annual conference for postgraduate students

Perspectives on Landscape: a conference for postgraduate students embracing the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering and technology

13th Sept 2011 at the Nottingham Trent University

The conference is open to all postgraduate students registered at an East Midlands University.

It follows the very successful EMUA conference at Nottingham Trent University in September 2010 which attracted around 90 participants. This year the conference has a broad title in order to appeal to a very wide spectrum of research interests including the social sciences, the arts, humanities, sciences and technology.

The aim of the conference is to bring together a range of postgraduate perspectives on landscape from across the disciplinary spectrum. The goal is to stimulate debate and collaboration across academic departments, and to share knowledge across disciplines. With the theme of ‘Perspectives on Landscape’ we look forward to papers and discussion that bring together the different approaches and perspectives applied to landscape research.

Students will also have the opportunity to give a short presentation, or to present a poster, relating to the themes below. If you are interested in submitting an abstract or poster title for consideration for the conference please indicate this in the relevant section on the application form.

Further details and application forms will be available soon

If you are interested in presenting at the conference or in exhibiting a poster, your work should present a perspective on landscape which contributes to one of the following themes.

Landform development: physical and chemical processes of erosion and sedimentation

You may decide to present work on Landscape use practises, on soil conservation, on Sediment Transport or the impacts on water systems. Perhaps your research involves Data Collection Techniques or Sediment Modelling. Or are you involved in work that may mitigate or manage erosion? Your work may involve analysing the impact of erosion on the Environment (perhaps water quality, soil degradation, ecosystems). You may be a geologist, geographer or engineer. Whatever your research, if it has implications or takes its inspiration from erosion, weathering and sedimentation this theme would be of interest to you.

Changing landscape with changing climatic

You might be a historical geographer or biologist studying the physical impacts of climate change. Perhaps there are marked vegetation patterns that you have recorded. Perhaps you study the pace of change over historical times and are able to give an understanding of how climate has affected the landscape. Perhaps you are an economist who can help us to understand the socio-economic impacts of change? Perhaps you model climate change and can predict change for the future.

Human impact on landscape: rural, urban and industry, transport and engineering projects

Perhaps you are a historian, economist, geographer or social scientist and study human impact on landscape. How and why is landscape changing? Perhaps as an engineer you are studying solutions to problems relating to natural landscape processes such as slope instability. Perhaps you have worked on developments which could serve as case studies.

Exploiting landscape: tourism and leisure activities

Your background might be in geography, humanities, anthropology, leisure services, in ecology or environmental science. You might come from a history, literature or social science background. You might be involved in planning or local government. Many disciplines would influence how we ‘exploit’ our landscape for leisure.

The historical development of landscape: cultural, literary and archaeological aspects

Archaeologists, artists, writers, historians, chemists, geologists, geographers; can your work present a historical perspective?

Imaging landscape by the scientist: satellite photography and interpretation

Are you involved in digital imaging, in remote sensing, in GIS? Or perhaps in the interpretation of the data. Can you use data to predict impacts from changes in landscape?

Imaging landscape by the artist: cultural and design depictions of landscape by the artist through the ages to digital fine art today

Fine artists, engineers, poets, historians, actors - do you have a perspective on this theme that would inform and stimulate others?

Coasts and shorelines

The interface of sea and land presents a rich opportunity for a perspective on coastal landscape. This draws on all of the above. You may decide to look at natural shoreline processes, the economic development of ports, coastal scenery, historical pace of change, tourist developments or the depiction of the shoreline in art.

For each of the themes for this conference you are encouraged to look at the issues from a new perspective, thinking how your research might influence and inform others.

For further information please contact Lisa Ambler on l.m.ambler@lboro.ac.uk

2010 conference papers - perspectives in society: health, culture and the environment

 

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