Today’s forecast was good and the clouds lifted, revealing just how light it gets around midday now. So, given it looks to be a pretty stormy day tomorrow I thought I would make the most of the still conditions, don some ski trousers, get toasty and go for a proper round-town trek. One of… Read More
Author: S Saville
Back in the field
Oslo airport, first thing I saw through departures! Well, when I left last summer, I wrote that I didn’t know if I would be coming back to Svalbard, I really didn’t. It seems that the conviction and numbers of people that told me to come back in winter/spring, combined with some diligent budgeting (and understanding… Read More
PhD life re-visited
It’s getting a little late for new year’s posts, but so long as it’s still January I’m going for it anyway! I can’t believe it’s been over 12 months since last year’s reflections. Things have been quiet on the blog recently as I’ve been trying to knuckle down to writing up and making sense of… Read More
Iced up Imagery 2
The next installment of icy films and TVThe Polar Bear Family and Me So, polar bears. They have been fascinating to me from the point where they started being flag ship species and campaign motives for action on climate change (which I’ll come to shortly). However, since starting this project, they have started to haunt… Read More
Borderlands and king crabs, Kirkenes
I’ve recently returned from a short trip to Kirkenes in Northern Norway. I have quite a bit to say about the conference I was attending, but I thought I’d first share some thoughts and stories about the town and area I visited, as it was quite fascinating and was the source of lots of ‘firsts’… Read More
Making is Connecting and Making Connections: Post conference thoughts of the RGS
At the end of August I attended the Royal Geographic Society (with IBG)’s annual conference in London. In preparation for, during and after the event I did a fair amount of reflecting on what the purpose of taking part in conferences are. I think it’s fair to say that academics put a fair amount of… Read More
Multi-modal meanings, multi-media methods
This week I took part in a two day interdisciplinary, multi-modal research workshop, organised by the ESRC Wales DTC in Cardiff. The aim of the day was to explore the different modes we make meaning and observe with, the affordances of four key media with which we can record ethnographic observations, and the relationship between… Read More
Trip stats
Back to Aberystwyth just in time to see the sunset! Being a largely qualitative researcher, it’s not that often you’ll see that many figures in my work. Sometimes putting a number on things is interesting and can give a good overall picture though, so here are a few random things that you might be interested… Read More
Post field work re-balancing act
Time has flown by since I returned from Svalbard, it’s been 2 months already! It has been an interesting and slightly chaotic time. I hadn’t really thought about what it would be like having ‘done’ my fieldwork, except that it meant I ought to get on with analysis and writing and could for a while… Read More
Reading and Writing Geography
Oops it has been a bit quiet on the blog lately. I’ve been trying to knuckle down and get some serious writing done, something I find difficult at the best of times. At the start of the month though I found the perfect excuse to get away from the office whilst working on my academic… Read More
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