‘Mini-Kindrogan@SGS Summer School’ Event

A Summer School event for the Human Geography pathway of the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science ESRC Doctoral Training Centre was held inEdinburghon 19 June, bringing together graduate students from acrossScotland. Continuing the success of the one day mini-Kindrogan event held annually for the past four years, this year’s event was organised by PhD Geography and Environmental Science students of the School of the Environment,UniversityofDundeefor fellow PhD students inScotland. Key organisers included Amy Holden, Andrew Wooff and Morgan Windram Geddes.

The day event comprised a series of workshops, panel sessions and keynote speakers focusing on contemporary research themes in human geography: risk, resilience and justice, new mobilities and governance and vulnerable societies. These themes provided a way of structuring the morning break-out sessions. Threaded throughout the day, was a focus on the various methodological phases of PhD work – planning, doing and reflecting – to meet the needs of students at all stages. The aim was to make the day fairly informal, giving PhD students the chance to discuss their research amongst peers in a supportive environment.

Dr Susan Mains from the School of the Environment,UniversityofDundeeprovided the keynote address; Dr Mains recently joined Dundee from The University of the West Indies-Mona (Kingston,Jamaica) and maintains critical engagement with qualitative methodologies through her research. She is currently “examining the intersections-and gaps-between refugees, community groups, spatial settlement policies, and media images of migration”.