UCL Geography is calling for 2026/2027 applications for The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships. The department's internal deadline for applications is extended to Monday 16 November 2026. at 12pm. For more details: https://tinyurl.com/3e27xj3e #research #fellowships #academicfunding

📢 We are excited to launch our new Data Storytelling Toolkit!

The UCL Social Data Institute, in collaboration with the Geographic Data Service, is pleased to introduce a new open-access resource to support researchers in developing their data storytelling practice.

🔗 tinyurl.com/DataStoryToolkit

UCL Geography is calling for 2026/2027 applications for The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships. The department's internal deadline for applications is Friday 2 November 2026 at 12pm. For more details: https://tinyurl.com/3e27xj3e #research #fellowships #academicfunding

Welcome to all our undergraduates! We hope you have enjoyed your first week, including today's Sustainability induction and induction to the wonderful treasures of the UCL Map Library
#maps #cartography #sustainability #UCLGeography #maplibrary

"There's all sorts of choices and decisions that cartographers are making that gently steer us in one direction or another. And that's what makes them so powerful."

Check out James Cheshire's (SODA Director and Professor in @uclgeography.bsky.social) on BBC Radio Stoke 👇

#maps #cartography #bbc

"What we forget when looking at a map on a phone screen is how big physical maps are – you can lean over them, trace routes. They give you a god-like view on the world."

James Cheshire, SODA Director and Professor of Cartography (@uclgeography.bsky.social) in @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

#maps

🥛 Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp (UCL Institute of Archaeology) and Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social (University of Oxford’s History of Science Museum), are in the new BBC Ideas film: ‘Five surprising things you probably didn’t know about milk’.

Check it out 👇

#Milk #BBCIdeas #Archaeology

“...if you’re trying to show things that relate to the population of the planet, Mercator’s not the way to go, ...it expands the areas where no one lives, largely.”
Professor James Cheshire on BBC Radio 4 thinking critically about the maps we use. Read more about James' work: https://bit.ly/46PTCDi

"If you’re trying to show things that relate to the population of the planet, Mercator’s not the way to go, because, actually, it expands the areas where no one lives, largely.”

James Cheshire, SODA Director and Professor of Cartography (@uclgeography.bsky.social), on BBC Radio 4.

#BBC #Maps

"There's no perfect solution to this problem, but I do think the push for more variation in the kinds of maps that we commonly look at is a welcome suggestion."

James Cheshire, SODA Director and Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography in @uclgeography.bsky.social on BBC News 👇

#map #UN

🎙️ The Library of Lost Maps

Listen to James Cheshire, Britain’s only Professor of Cartography and Director of UCL Social Data Institute, talk about the role of maps in our histories and why they still matter.

🔗 tinyurl.com/iwejtwe

@ucl.ac.uk #maps #podcasts #libraries

Victorian teetotalers, life insurance & health: Dr @jameskneale.bsky.social’s Temperance Lives shows how insurers shaped drinking habits 🏛️💼🍷.

Read more 👇 tinyurl.com/ucl-temp

#UCLGeography #VictorianBritain #Temperance #LifeAssurance #History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social