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2009

» Ashley Dawkins: Towards a Transgressive Utopianism: Faslane Peace Camp and Alternative Practise

» Chris Lovewell: TV Travel Documentaries: Audiences and Popular Geographies

» Jamie Steacy-Buck: A View of Landscape: Windsor Great Park

» Charlotte Woods: Socialist Realist Art, Exhibition & Geopolitics

2008

» Michael Anton: Geocaching

» Hugh Crosfield: Cultures of Representation, Performance and Bodies: an Investigation of ‘Face to Face’ Charity Fundraising

» Annie Cruz-Porter: Binary Fusions?  Blindness, guide dogs in the posthuman dogblog

» Rukeya Suleman: Mahithir's geographical imaginations: Islamic modernity of Malaysia

» Jennine Walker: Practices and discourse of exclusion: policing the homeless in the City of Westminster

2007

» Jamie Adcock: What’s Cooking Jamie? A Discourse analysis of ‘Jamie’s School Dinners’

» Anna Carrabetta: Italian Backpackers A phenomenon built by guidebooks

» Louise Henderson: Towards a Geography of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Publishing: John Murray and the Author(is)ing of David Livingstone’s Missionary Travels

» Camille Hennion: The Emergence of a Religious Place: the construction of a cathedral mosque in Paris

» Diana Martin: Palestinian Spaces of Exception in Lebanon and the Period of the Deuxieme Bureau (1958 -1964)

» Ashley Nye: Becoming “the Brunswick (Centre)”: Narratives of modernist architecture and the politics of urban regeneration

» Dominic Penn: Stephen Gill and the Unremarkable Hackney Wick. A Study of urban-natures and photographic practice in the city

» Kimberley Peters: "Souvenirs: Material Culture in ‘Everyday’ and ‘Extraordinary’ Place"

» Joseph Shawyer: Transnationalism and the Spanish Civil War

» Catherine Vince: Representational Space Landscape & Place at Piazza Duomo, Milan

» Daniel Whittall: A Century of Emancipation: History-Writing, Discourse and Representation in the 1930s and 1940s

» Christiana Zara: The Western Representation of the journey to India: the ‘mystical appeal’ of Varansi (India)

2006

» Philip Hatfield: Drawing back the curtain: Geraldine Moodie and the Canadian Arctic, 1904-05

» Madeleine Dobson: At home away from home: Transient students and homemaking through domestic material culture

» Jonathan Olver: Harry Potter and the Set Jetter Phenomenon

» David Jeevendrampillai: A Cultural Geography of Cultural Geographers

» Laura Fry: Meet me at the Gumtree the ‘virtual’ and the ‘reality’ of community, emotion and space

» Jonas Fox: Animal Reintroductions of Beavers, Konik Horses, Reindeer, Wild Boar and Wolves into the UK

2005

» Thomas Barton: Exploring sound and space: the sonic and sensuous
Geographies of Different Trains

» Constance Brooks: “Muddy Waters: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Commemorative Controversy over his Hometown's Symbolic landscape”

» Julia Pfaf: Domesticity, Communality and the City: Geographies of residence of Swahili transnationals in London

» Emma Rowland: "I'm allowed to go wherever I want", Negotiating the Street Alone: Young People's Access and Restrictions to Public Space

» Paul Tostevin: Tourism in Motion: Performance and Historical Representation in the Guided Tour

2004

» Emilie Cameron: Exhibit and point of sale: contemplating and consuming culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery

» Robert Davis: An investigation into how Reggae music was discursively constructed by the music publication Melody Maker during the period 1971 to 19751

» Luke Dickens: Journeys on the 133: telling stories from a London bus

» Emily Last: Banishing the BNP: anti-racism's ambivalence and the inscription of white identities in Broxbourne

» Caron Lipman: Trespassing in the ruins: urban exploration at the CRX

» Carie Roots: Bivouac

» Tara Woodyer: "I'm not allowed to go there cause my mum can't see me!". Researching children's outdoor geographies: accounts of negotiation and methodological reflections

2003

» Johanna Andersson: My quarter: cultural geographies of hip hop in Stockholm

» Matt Benwell: Child control. Methodological reflections on research with children

» Daniel Deacon: Producing and consuming an 'advertising campaign': implementing Beauty is not enough within the everyday

» Iannis Fourniadis: An Investigation into the Geopolitical Imaginations of Greece: the case of the Geopolitiki journal

» Hilary Geoghegan: Souvenirs of a mountain: memory, mountaineering, material form

» Tom Holt: Franchise and fans' lives: the importance of place in football fandom

» Sue Robertson: Visions of urban mobility: the sensational spaces of Westway

» Amanda Rogers: The 1910 Japan-British Exhibition: representations, experiences, legacies

» Justin Spinney: Representation, performance and practice: excavating sociality and agency in road racing

2002

» Huw Jones: Postcolonial Welsh landscapes: custodial aesthetics and the artwork of Iwan Bala et al

» Julie Anne Jones: Changing cultures of Spitalfields: regeneration and renewal politics in the East End of London

» Holly Mclaren: Between worlds: the ambiguous cultural geographies of public sound art

» Andrew Morrison: The Golden Bridge? Child migration through the pages of Barnardo's Magazine, Night and Day

» Alasdair Pinkerton: Narrating the landscape: experience, movement and the threads of history

» Danielle Simmonds: City Slickers: reading Vogue's fashion photography

2001

» Alice Farrands: A Wellcome shift in strategy: art, science and the production of meaning in the Science Museum, London

» Rebekah Fox: London life just got wilder... Nature, culture and the birds at the W.W.T. Wetland Centre

» Fernando Garcia: Cultures of escapel travel and utopia: exploring Alex Garland's The Beach

» Alexander Turner: Imagining the geopolitical through film

» Katie Walsh: Storytelling in Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter

2000

» Stephen Burgess: 'Common-sense' and the centotaph: the freedom to remember?

» Jill M Fenton: La Musee des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie and the exhibiting of the work of the surrealist painter Clovis Trouille (1889 - 1975) between 29 October 1999 and 3 January 2000

1999

» Matthew Chapman: The body, chronic illness and disability: exploring the personal geography of renal failure

» Kezia Lavan: William Hesketh Lever and the homely art of 'progress'

» Gavin Musk: Gendering resistance, patriarchy, performance, and environmental activism

» Janet Noakes: Consumption and production of modern tourist guidebooks

» Nina Pascall: Voices - representing 'others': a study of the African Worlds exhibition at the Horniman Museum

» Sunita Jaitly Sharman: Women's participation in big game hunting in the British Empire 1890-1924: three women's texts

» Breffni Lennon: The Yasuni National Park Expedition: problems with representation and knowledge creation in field research

1998

» Anne Boddington: 400:20:1 Geographies of Heathrow Airport

» John Carroll: A British Journey: representations of Britain, the British and 'Britishness' in Paul Theroux's The Kingdom by the Sea

» Nicholas Head: The body and disability: constructing normalcy, deviancy and social discourse in popular film and other media

» Fiona Henderson: Curating the English national image: the British Council defines Modern British Art

» Tariq Jazeel: Buddhism, 'nature' and being: meanings, perception and experience of the sacred landscape Siri Pada (Adam's Peak) in Sri Lanka

» Shivani Pandey: Reversing the colonial gaze: the experiences and narratives of Indian Female travellers to late nineteenth-century Britain

1997

» Sarah Cant: Mountaineering reversed: cultures of caves and caving in two 1930s British caving journals

» Sofie Corfield: Is dance resistance? A study of dance culture in the context of the Reclaim The Streets party in Trafalgar Square, 12 April 1997

» Claire Edwards: The propagation and consumption of a themed retail outlet: the Irish Pub

» Tim Jenkins: 'We know we're in the wrong place ..': an exploration of geographies of homelessness in and around the Waterloo Bull Ring

» Roderick Mitcham: Geographies of (re)presentation: a study of the Anti-Slavery Reporter and the Aborigines Friend

» Nina Morris: Exclusion and the rural geographies of disability

» Bridget Robinson: 'Lest we forget': the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Chapel, a landscape of remembrance

» Helen Watkins: Curating geographies, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge: art house and open-house

1996

» Louise Appleton: Social change and the cultural geography of RockwellÕs America

» Elizabeth Craven: Constructing 'obese' identities: a cultural geography of obesity

» Georgina Gowans: Representations of London in popular geographical magazines

» Timothy Lewis: Othering of the medical fringe - 'quacks' and the medical establishment 1750-1840

» Joanne Norcup: Acts of resistance and resisting the act: the criminal justice and public order act (1994), the third battle of Newbury, and terrains of resistance

» Nicola Thomas: The negotiation and representation of difference within the symbolic landscape of the Coronation Durbar 1903

 

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