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This FinGeo blog article series is dedicated to the teaching of financial geography in higher education. Whilst research in financial geography has advanced considerably in recent years, there has been comparatively little discussion about how it is taught in higher education. This series contributes to this end by bringing together reflections from three teaching-active academics on their experiences in the classroom.  Dr Araby Smyth of Mount Allison University reflects on t

Author: Dr. Araby Smyth, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University; email: asmyth@mta.ca   I originally didn’t think much of financialization and thought the subject would be boring. I couldn’t have been more wrong. - Anonymous response from a student experience survey, winter 2025. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University (MtA), a public, mostly undergraduate, l

Author: Dr. Paweł Węgrzyn, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Department of Economic Geography; e-mail: pwegrz@sgh.waw.pl   ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8963-2765 As an assistant professor teaching both capital markets and economic geography at a business-focused university, I find myself at a unique intersection of disciplines. This position allows me to introduce the spatial dimension of finance into both my economic geography courses and those concerning the functioning

Author: Dr. Stefanos Ioannou, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Oxford Brookes University; email: sioannou@brookes.ac.uk    For the past five years, I have been teaching economics at Oxford Brookes University, including a module on finance and economic development for third-year undergraduate students. This module has provided me with a platform to show students how financial geography enriches economic analysis. At the start of the module, I cover basic economic development mode

The FinGeo Seminar aims at debating advances in financial geography within the following broad nexuses: (1) Geography, Finance, Development & Social Businesses (2) Geography, Finance & Environmental and Social Sustainability (3) Geography, Finance & Technology advances We will discuss, among others, FinTech, AI-finance nexus, sustainable finance, biofinance, climate finance, finance for social business, relational credit, philanthropy, development finance from different persp

In December 2023 I travelled to Shetland for two weeks. The aim of my trip was to conduct fieldwork research for a project studying small...

We are pleased to announce the date of the next FinGeo Annual General Meeting (AGM). Date:  Tuesday 7th May 2024  Time: 13:00-14:00...

🌆 The Urban Empire of Finance: Power and Inequalities in Asset Management Capitalism 🗓️ Date & Time: Friday, 15 March 2024, 3pm-4pm...

🔍📢 Call for Papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2024 Session Title: Knowledge Creation in Finance Organizer: Dr. Stefanos Ioannou,...

🌐 Attention FINGEO Members! Immerse yourself in the world of financial visualization at the RGS-IBG Conference in London, Aug 27-30,...

Central banks, the climate crisis and the need for a ‘creative disruption’ Authors: Martin Sokol and Jennie C. Stephens...

📚 Join us for a captivating online book talk with Andy Pike on “Financialization and Local Statecraft”! 🗓️ Mark your calendars for the...

Monthly Drink event is a one-hour event hosted online by FinGeo . It brings together early career researchers and PhD students, across...

Join the next  Summer Institute in Economic Geography  held at  NUS Geography , 21-26 July 2024! Applications OPEN now till 22 Dec 2023....

What to expect The postdoctoral researcher will be part of a team starting a new research direction in the study of energy- and financial...

FinGeo is proud to announce that the 2023 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize has been awarded to an excellent applicant: Laura Deruytter ...

The role This is an exciting opportunity to join the Future Finance for All UKRI/ESRC funded project which is led by the University of...

14-17 June 2023 | Ljubljana (Slovenia) | 2023 RSA Annual Conference “Transforming Regions: Policies and Planning for People and Places” ...

14-15 September 2023 | Brussels (Belgium) | “Intersections of finance and society 2023”  Intersections of finance and society 2023 is a...

Early-Career Researcher Workshop: New Frontiers for Data Analytics in Economic and Business History Research A GloCoBank Project Event |...