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2026
Open Call for Papers – UK Property Law themed submissions invited for the Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Laworiginal ↗
25 Mar 2026
23 Feb 2026
2025
The Bin Looks Back: Silent Judgment, Breaking Bad, and the Rise of the Reverse Vending Machineoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2025
Into place (with the wolves): a Legal Geography Special Issue of the Journal of Property, Planning & Environmental Law, is now availableoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2025
CFP for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, Concepción, Chile: 17-20 March 2026original ↗
25 Sept 2025
28 Jul 2025
28 Jan 2025
2024
‘Please retain all information for future reference’: the challenges of communicating with future usersoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2024
‘Do we know what we need?’ – reflections on SHU SPG’s ‘Perceiving Climate Change #4: Education’ online eventoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2024
Abandon post? A Call For Papers for an April 2025 conference on abandoned military buildings, near Paris, France.original ↗
16 Oct 2024
27 Sept 2024
“Education” – the fourth session in Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group’s online series on ‘Perceiving Climate Change’, 7 November 2024, 7-9.30pmoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2024
26 Jul 2024
Fire!: reflections on ‘Heat’, SHU SPG’s third session on ‘Perceiving Climate Change’ (including session recording)original ↗
18 Jun 2024
“Heat” – the third session in Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group’s online series on ‘Perceiving Climate Change’, 13 June 2024, 7-9.30pmoriginal ↗
28 May 2024
“We are all bodies of water” – Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group, Perceiving Climate Change #2: Water, online event 25-4-24original ↗
30 Apr 2024
Talking about ‘Thinking Like A Brick’: an online seminar with Luke Bennett for the Australian Association for Research in Education, 8.30am (UK time) Thursday 21 March 2024original ↗
6 Mar 2024
Session recording for ‘Perceiving Climate Change #1: Ice’ (SHU Space & Place Group Event, 15-2-24, with Royal Geographical Society Yorkshire & North East Committee)original ↗
26 Feb 2024
Perceiving Climate Change #1: Ice. Registration now open for Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group’s next online session, 15 February 2024, 7-9.30pmoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2024
2023
In gear? Reflections on Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group’s Exploring #4: On your Bike session (7-12-23)original ↗
13 Dec 2023
Enthusiastically Up, On and Under the Rocks: reporting on Exploring #2 and 3, Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group’s online sessions, October & November 2023.original ↗
23 Nov 2023
Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group: Exploring #4: On Your Bike, online event Thursday, 7 December 2023, 7-9.30pmoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2023
‘Going Underground’ and ‘On the Rocks’: Announcing Exploring #2 and #3‘, our forthcoming Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group online sessions, on 26 October & 16 November 2023original ↗
22 Sept 2023
‘The emotional labour of contemporary ruin gazing’ – reflections on SHU SPG’s Exploring #1: In Ruins sessionoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2023
‘In Ruins’: Thursday, 6 July 2023, 7-9pm – Exploration#1 in SHU SPG’s new online seminar seriesoriginal ↗
26 May 2023
21 Feb 2023
“Creative Destruction” – announcing SHU Space & Place Group’s 2023 Theme – a call for contributionsoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2023
2022
Riding out the catastrophe: reflections from SHU SPG’s ‘Changing Places #3: Sport & physical activity in catastrophic environments’ session, 3-11-22original ↗
4 Nov 2022
SHU Space & Place Group: ‘Changing Places #3: Sport & physical activity in catastrophic environments’, online event, 3-11-22original ↗
2 Oct 2022
Come On In!: Calling all legal geographers, place management scholars and spatio-normativity researchers! The Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law is in a listening mood…original ↗
2 Sept 2022
25 Aug 2022
The Changing Campus #4: wider learning environments and interactions, Thursday 16 June 2022, 3-5pm (online SHU SPG event)original ↗
27 May 2022
28 Apr 2022
Changing Places #1: ‘Changing Places & Changing Identities’, a SHU Space & Place Group online session, 7-9pm on Thursday, 24 March 2022original ↗
14 Mar 2022
The Changing Campus #1 & #2: some reflections on our recent SHU Space Place / HEC online seminars (session recordings here too)original ↗
18 Feb 2022
The Changing Campus #2: learning in place? (free SHU Space & Place Group online event, 2-4pm, 16 February 2022)original ↗
4 Jan 2022
2021
‘The Changing Campus #1: experiencing being on campus’ (free SHU SPG online event, 2-4pm, 19 January 2022)original ↗
29 Dec 2021
‘Changing Places’ – The Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group’s theme for 2021/22 – a Call for Ideasoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2021
Defying gravity: construction and deconstruction campaigns against gravity and their pitfallsoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2021
What’s behind the fence? – exploring dead land and empty buildings at the RGS-IBG 2021 Annual Conference (online session, Weds 1st Sept 2021)original ↗
24 Aug 2021
29 Jul 2021
Here and hear: reflections on SHU SPG’s Haunts#4: atmospheres of social haunting online event, 17 June 2021original ↗
18 Jun 2021
‘Haunts #4: atmospheres of social haunting’ – announcing the final SHU Space & Place Group ‘Haunts’ session: Thursday, 17 June 2021, 7-9.30pm (online)original ↗
19 May 2021
People in Property 2021: reflections on our series of four online panels exploring architecture’s shadow identity as real estateoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2021
The ghosts we summon from the battlefield: reflections and event recording for SHU SPG’s Haunts #3 eventoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2021
Haunts #3: The Haunted Battleground – free SHU Space & Place Group Zoom conference, 7-9.30pm Thursday, 25 February 2021original ↗
27 Jan 2021
2020
Time to show the chair the door?: Haunting, wrestling and cohabiting with material and immaterial others (Reflections on SHU SPG’s ‘Haunts #2: The Haunted Home’ and a full recording of the event)original ↗
13 Dec 2020
22 Nov 2020
‘Haunts: haunted places and haunting practices’ – a SHU SPG online event, Thurs 29 Oct 7-9.30pmoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2020
25 Aug 2020
Coming out of confinement: reflections on the SHU SPG online session on dwelling in the time of COVID-19.original ↗
4 Jun 2020
19 May 2020
The Greater Confinement: Survival Cells, the Survival City and how COVID-19 evolves protective sequestrationoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2020
Is the past always another country? Reflections on the 1832 Cholera outbreak in the light of COVID-19original ↗
20 Mar 2020
What’s behind the fence? Exploring dead land and empty buildings – 10 paper session proposal submitted to RGS-IBG 2020 conferenceoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2020
CFP for RGS-IBG 2020: What’s behind the fence? Exploring the secret lives of ambivalent owners, dead land and empty buildingsoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2020
2019
Living beyond the limits of survival: five articles on ongoing cultural production in abandoned bunkersoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2019
The bunker is dead, long live the bunker: announcing my forthcoming guest-edited special issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studiesoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2019
CFP – AAG 2020 – New Directions in Subterranean Geopolitics (abstract submission deadline: 18 October 2019)original ↗
14 Oct 2019
FOUR VIEWS OF SPATIAL CHANGE & STASIS: 4 fully-funded PhDs at SHU investigating: professional cultures of urban vacancy; arts led urban re-use; geographies of community self-help under austerity; Icelandic glacier fluctuations. Applications Deadline: 25 July 2019original ↗
22 Jun 2019
Towards a legal psychogeography: counter-reverie, overdetermined texts and the ghosts of waterlogged ditchesoriginal ↗
28 May 2019
12 Apr 2019
Comfortable // Uncomfortable Places: details of the SHU Space & Place Group’s theme and programme of events for 2019original ↗
14 Feb 2019
2018
From the bottom drawer: on rescuing three old thoughts about law’s quiet presence in placeoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2018