Having just returned from a week of interviewing for a project in Bangalore I couldn't agree more Tracey.  My physical geog colleagues similarly seen to be out in the field in rivers, on glaciers etc. so this is a complete meida fabrication.
 
Maybe though, the forum should be communicating this to the Times rather than on this list?
 
Dave
 
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers on behalf of Tracey Skelton
Sent: Wed 20/05/2009 12:40
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Subject: Re: RGS vote

Why don’t these people actually talk to academic geographers before pontificating about them?  I for one do not use ‘data already collected’ and never have. The RGS funds lots of scientific research which might be called expeditions. Certainly a colleague of mine who does aeolian research in deserts often appears to be setting off on expeditions – and her work has been very well recognised by the RGS. I see my career as far from ‘narrow ‘– as academics we have to engage with all the complexities of the real world (students, colleagues, institutional expectations and demands, funding bodies, intellectual developments and so on and so on). Many times I feel I would like to take months out and wander through the Andes, explore the glaciers or float up a very long river away from the everydayness of working life! One thing is for sure, before most of us publish anything we generally check that our data are correct!


On 5/20/09 6:56 PM, "Lindsey Appleyard" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
The RGS debate rolls on....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6322226.ece


From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kath Browne
Sent: 19 May 2009 12:05
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Subject: Re: RGS vote

All,
 
For those of you who don’t know and from the RGS press release:
 
Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) have voted decisively to support the Society’s present policy of funding a wide range of research projects and scientific expeditions studying important contemporary issues in many different places across the world.
 
Further details at: http://www.rgs.org/AboutUs/Governance/SGM/resultresolutionvote.htm. Thanks to everyone who voted.  Please ensure you vote again for the committee positions coming up.  The vote for who sits on the committee is as important as this vote.
 
Kath

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