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External Collaboration

The Social & Cultural Geography Group is strongly committed to the support and development of collaborative links with external bodies. In recent years, the Group has established a variety of innovative collaborations with practitioners beyond the academy, including artists, architects, curators, designers and teachers. These links have been developed in major research initiatives, such as the AHRB Visualising Geography project which paired Geographers and artists in collaborative projects. Collaborative doctoral studentships (both ESRC and AHRC funded) are also prominent in the Group's activities, recently involving partnerships with organisations such as the Museum of London, the British Library, the British Museum, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), the National Maritime Museum and the Science Museum. External collaboration has also been important in the wider dissemination of Group research. For example, in 2006 the Victoria & Albert Museum presented its 'Swinging Sixties' exhibition, organised in collaboration with the ESRC-AHRC funded Shopping Routes project, and  Toby Butler’s collaborative doctoral research led to his prize-winning memoryscape project.

More generally, the Group has productive relationships with other departments at RHUL. This includes collaborative work with colleagues in the departments of Drama & Theatre and Music on landscape and performance and participation in the college’s Postcolonial Research Group. SCG also has excellent research links with a variety of external organisations across London which, in addition to those involved in collaborative studentships, include the London College of Fashion, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Maritime Museum, Tate Britain, the Royal College of Art, the Institute of Historical Research and the Wellcome Foundation.

The research of SCG staff and postgraduate students also has a strong international profile. There are good links with Geography departments in North America, including those at UCLA and UBC, Europe and South East Asia, including the National University of Singapore. The Group has welcomed visiting postgraduate research students and staff from a variety of overseas universities, including Berkeley, Stockholm, Paris and Rio de Janeiro.