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Engaging geography aims to explore and respond to two key challenges facing the discipline of geography in 2008 and beyond: the ‘state’ of the discipline, its disciplinary identity and public face, lack of interaction between academic, school, and other geographers, and the perceived inability to engage with and influence the world and public(s) ‘out there’ (see Castree et al, 2007); and the increasing calls for academics to play more prominent public roles outside their ivory tower offices, at a time of developing growth in ‘public’ variants of many social science disciplines (see Attwood, 2007).

Engaging Geography website

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Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: connecting people, participation and place.
Edited by Kindon S, Pain R and Kesby M (2007) Routledge, London. More

There are several SCHOLARSHIPS this year, for UK/EU and International students

Programme features include:

* Modules on Spaces of Radical Thought, Empire and Resistance
* Campaigning and Researching for Social Change
* Action Research Dissertation
* Hands on experience and workshops from practitioners, campaigners and activists
* Film clubs, reading groups and field visits
* Course book at www.handbookforchange.org

Contact Paul Chatterton
www.activismsocialchange.org.uk