Recent GPS Expeditions
Recent University approved and funded expeditions led by students from the School of GPS are listed below. University funded students may also be selected to present at the University Vacation Scholarships and Expeditions Public Lecture held each year in November.
2011
- Sarah Tupper, Sean Mongan, Joshua Robinson, Benjamin Storey (Geography: South Africa) A Study into the Impacts of FIFA World Cup 2010 on Socio-Economic Change in Durban and three surrounding township areas
- Alex Smith, Rob Barker (Geography/Geomatics: Norway) Tunsbergdalsbreen 2011
2010
Rupert Bainbridge (Geography: Iceland) Newcastle University Icelandic Jökulhlaup Project 2010- William Monteith (Politics: Bosnia and Herzegovina) Balkanism repackaged? Contesting dominant presentations of ‘European integration’ in contemporary Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Emily Gasgoyne-Richards (Geography: Canada) The Paris Moraine, Canada, Expedition 201.
2009
- Katherine Sheinman (Geography: Israel) Israeli-Arab women, territoriality and identity in Jaffa, 2009
- Emma Shearing (Geography: USA) The distribution of the diatom Didymosphenia geminata within the Little Truckee River, California.
2008
- Claire Williams (Geography: Zambia) Global Nurse Migration: ‘Friend’ or ‘Foe’ to Nursing Services? The Case of Kitwe, Zambia
- Chris Williams, Rupert Bainbridge, Katherine Bazeley, James Barraclough (Geography: Greenland) Newcastle University West Greenland Expedition 2008