Date & venue

Topic

Speaker

Tuesday, 13^th February, 2018

Time 6:30-8pm (doors open from 6pm).

Peak Lecture Theatre, 527 Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University City Campus, Sheffield, S1 1WB.

The road to 0.7%: UK’s ambition to be an “aid superpower” and challenges for the future

Richard will discuss how the UK emerged as a world leader in aid and international development over the last 20 years, and the significance of its achievement of the 0.7% target for spending on official development assistance.  He will also review recent trends in UK development policy, as well as the prospects of maintaining “aid superpower” status in an increasingly fractured world.

Richard Calvert was the Director General at the UK Department for International Development until 2015.  Currently Chief Operating Officer at Sheffield Hallam University.

Tuesday, 13^th March, 2018

GA/RGS Lecture

Measuring the impact of the new National Planning Policy Framework

James Harris - the Policy and Networks Manager of the Royal Town Planning Institute

Thursday 15^th March, 2018

Time 6:30-8pm (doors open from 6pm).

Lecture Theatre 2, The Diamond,  University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Rd, Sheffield S3 7RD.

GA/RGS Lecture

Changing Places: a geographical introduction

Place can be defined as a geographical nexus of connections and linkages that change over time.  Places have economic, political and social dimensions.  They are invested with cultural meanings and evoke powerful emotions.  This lecture will discuss some key issues associated with one of our discipline’s keywords.  It will provide examples of the power of place, contestations over place, fictional places, and ideas of place and placelessness.  It will contrast a bounded, static and backward-looking view of place with Doreen Massey’s notion of a progressive sense of place, characterised by porous boundaries and endless connections with other places.  Practical examples involving the geography of food will also be introduced.

Peter Jackson, Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield

Tuesday, 24th April, 2018

Time 6:30-8pm (doors open from 6pm).

Peak Lecture Theatre, 527 Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University City Campus, Sheffield, S1 1WB.

RGS Lecture:

Migrants on the Margins

Andrew Baldwin from the University of Durham will speak about the latest developments in the RGS-IBG field research project about life for migrants in some of the world’s fastest growing cities.

Andrew Baldwin

Tuesday 22^nd May, 2018

Time 6:30-8pm (doors open from 6pm).

Peak Lecture Theatre, 527 Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University City Campus, Sheffield, S1 1WB.

Global governance and Global Arctic 

This talk addresses the A Level curricula relating to global governance and global systems.

Prof Dodds explores the impact and scope of global governance and what we term the global commons.   He will use The Global Arctic as a case study to describe what is happening to particular parts of the region that are attracting ever more global attention because of their perceived accessibility, resource value, and or strategic significance.

Key questions he will answer include: What are the global commons and do they include contested spaces such as the central Arctic ocean and Antarctica? Does the global system acknowledge the interests of states and non-state actors in these areas such as the high seas and atmosphere? Are there growing pressures on the exploitation of the global commons and what might that tell us about the prevailing geopolitics?

Professor Klaus Dodds