Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
We've spent plenty of time outside in Northumberland this past week. It's been rather cold and windy but with plenty of sunshine, showers and one big storm. The wind's been a problem for photography but when you get into the shade of the farm garden or when you are walking on sheltered paths then there's... Continue Reading →
A couple of days ago we visited Kate's sister at Harbottle. It's an enchanting village, quite remote at the upper end of Coquetdale, where spring flowers are still to be found in full bloom at the end of May. I've never seen clematis look so enchanting. The air was full of their delicate blossom and... Continue Reading →
Old buildings have always appealed to me. There something about their solidity and history that makes me want to picture them. This past six weeks I've been right in their immediate vicinity. At Valla Folkhögskola in Linköping we were housed next to the 'fritidområde' with all of the old farming and railway buildings. We strolled out... Continue Reading →
This past six weeks I've been exploring new ideas and finding some new directions in my nature photography. Since finishing Symmetry in Nature in January I have been full of the urge to create but I was only able to follow this once I got to Sweden and Finland in April and May. The places... Continue Reading →
Kate definitely fits the Hotel California lyric 'You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave'. She's now Emeritus Professor but when Pearl Mzobe came to see us this weekend it was plain to see that here was the supervisor with her former student. Pearl's now taking her PhD at Lund University... Continue Reading →
Things don't usually work out this like this but for once my teaching and research schedules have fitted together really neatly. This past week I've been busy with the IPPE 2015 students at University West introducing them to research principles and practices through recording their Time Geographical activities using Google Drive applications. Then on Thursday... Continue Reading →
We had our latest meeting for the SANORD funded SISU-EDU project at the University of Turku this week. The aim of the Sustainability Education in Southern Africa project is to build an open access education simulation. We met our colleagues from Finland Futures Research Centre this week to workshop how to adapt their getalife simulation to... Continue Reading →
On Wednesday this week we held our World Water Week seminar. It was the culminating activity in a three week course on water resource management in Africa: part of the Masters programme in Science for Sustainable Development at Linköping University. We are teaching on the course as part of our Linnaeus-Palme exchange programme between the... Continue Reading →
Our time at Linköping University is unfortunately drawing to a close. We have just had a long weekend to celebrate Valborg but before then Kate and I held a Futures Studies session with our Sustainable Resources Masters students in Temahuset. It ended with the students workshopping Future Scenarios for Water Use in Africa. The four... Continue Reading →
Friday last week was taken up entirely with the public defence of Per-Olof Hanssons' PhD thesis: New Ways of Learning: Participatory Action Research and Kenyan Runners' Appropriation of Smartphones to Improve their Daily Lives and Participation in m-Learning. I was invited to be the opponent and soon learned that meant I had to make a... Continue Reading →
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