Oxford School of Geography and the Environment

18/08/2022

Do you remember the day when you found out you were going to Oxford?

It’s ! Congratulations to all those who are . We can’t wait to welcome you!

'I genuinely love my degree and I'm so happy I picked it...'

In the meantime, here are our current students talking about how their geography degree at Oxford will lead to wide range of career opportunities!

Let us know in the comments if you remember finding out you were coming to Oxford, and how it has changed your life since.

16/08/2022

Do you want to make an impact on the world? Study Geography at Oxford.

‘Geography is a degree for curious minds.’

Hear what our undergraduate degree programme has to offer, from the perspective of our current students. Visit us at our next open day: 16 Sept.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/open-days-and-visits

27/07/2022

The not-so-great British bake off!

Ben Clarke, a current grad student in SoGE, explores how likely the recent heatwave would have been without climate change in The Conversation.

Global heating may be making the weather systems behind heatwaves more common in Europe.

22/07/2022

Ghana produces 25% of the world's chocolate, so how can you sustainably grow cocoa AND protect the remaining forest in Ghana?

Watch the new film with Yadvinder Malhi & Mark Hirons from the ECI, with project partner Rebecca Ashley Asare to find out...

18/07/2022

Congratulations Josh, Alexis and Marcus for being awarded runner-ups in the Vice Chancellor’s Environmental Sustainability Awards 2022. The awards celebrate
's environmental commitments and contribution from staff and .

A special congratulations to our Facilities Manager, Alex Black, for winning a special Environmental Sustainability staff award for his energy saving work. 👏👏👏

27/09/2021

12-PAGE photo-interview: The Times Saturday Magazine with Dr Fredi Otto (TIME100 Most Influential People of 2021). [Plus embedded advert for Freddie's Flowers ...yep, there really is) [pay wall]

People on a night-time Mediterranean ferry, evacuated from an island in flames, bright red dancing against the black sky and reflected on the water. School gyms

22/09/2021

Ash, crash, smash, slash, bash ...and then re-hash with a splash and a dash?

What do you do when the nature that surrounds you is inevitably, and slowly, dying? If you’re a researcher at Wytham Woods, you respond with devastation and ...

21/09/2021

Save Planet? Stick Label on it! CONGRATS to Dr Brenda Boardman MBE interviewed today on BBC's "my interdisciplinary" Life Scientific

Can we achieve carbon net zero in our homes? Brenda Boardman talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

16/09/2021

SoGE Researcher makes TIME100 Most Influential people of 2021

Find out why Friederike Otto and Geert Jan van Oldenborgh are on this year’s list

14/09/2021

Phew! SoGE hits the highs in The Age of Hot

BBC research finds the number of days passing 50C has doubled in the past 40 years.

09/09/2021

When you're the first word in Nature (yep, It's Fredi Otto again).

Governments have failed to slow climate change quickly enough, so activists are using courts to compel countries and companies to act — increasingly with help from forefront science.

24/08/2021

German floods get the climate attribution insight. Great collaboration between SoGE and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center

Study reinforces the hard evidence that carbon emissions are the main cause of worsening extreme weather