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News & Opportunities
Welcome to FinGeo’s News & Opportunities — your hub for the latest updates, calls for papers, job openings, and event highlights in financial geography. Please stay connected with our global community, explore new opportunities, and keep up with the evolving intersections of finance and space.
2022/10/26 Monthly Drink Event (online) – Janelle Knox-Hayes (guest speaker)
Monthly Drink event is a one-hour event hosted online by FinGeo . It brings together early career researchers and PhD students, across...
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Oct 14, 20221 min read
2022/11/10 – The Financial Industry Sets Sights on Institutional Investors: A Relational Approach to
Over the past few decades, pension funds have emerged as major players in global financial markets as the reserves they manage have grown...
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Oct 6, 20222 min read
‘Global finance as the weapon of choice’ (By Gordon L Clark, Oxford University)
The following is a transcript of the lecture given by Professor Gordon Clark (Professorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall, University of...
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Sep 5, 202210 min read
2022/09/07 | 14:00 BST: Grants and Funding: Managing funded research projects I (Dariusz Wójcik, Oxf
Winning research funding is the aim of many researchers but the complexities of managing a research grant and the research project can be...
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Sep 5, 20223 min read
Call for abstracts: The new green global division of labour: Emerging geographies of decarbonisation
The ongoing shift away from fossil fuels has sometimes been framed as a ‘green energy race’ among states, each competing with one another...
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Sep 1, 20223 min read
FinGeo Travel Bursaries awarded
Congratulate the FinGeo Travel Bursaries winners! Jing Chu, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Durham University “The Variegated and...
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Jun 6, 20221 min read
2022/05/17 FinGeo / AAG webinar – Building Impact and Engagement into Your Early Academic Care
In this webinar, we will hear from economic and financial geographers who have been building engagement and impact into their research...
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May 11, 20223 min read
2022/05/10 |Alicia Giron| Geographies of Chinese Financial Flows in Africa
The objective of this research is to deepen the relationship between Chinese creditors and companies with African states. The hypothesis...
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Apr 12, 20222 min read
2022/04/26 – |Leigh Johnson| The Ironies of Disaster Sovereign Disaster Risk Financing for African States amidst Covid-19 and a Changing Climate
Amidst budget distress and fiscal austerity, African states face perennial barriers to accessing post-disaster public finance for...
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Apr 12, 20222 min read
FinGeo Bursaries to attendees of the 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography – Apply by 25
FinGeo is providing a small number of bursaries (typically GBP £300-£400 each) to attendees of the 6th Global Conference on Economic...
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Apr 7, 20221 min read
2022/04/05 |Rachel N. Weber| Financial astrology: Real estate speculation during a pandemic
5th April 2022, 17.30 BST, 18.30 CEST – Financial astrology: Real estate speculation during a pandemic How can an unforeseen crisis like...
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Mar 30, 20222 min read
2022/04/04 | FinGeo ECR Monthly Coffee meeting – guest speaker | Dariusz Wójcik |
FinGeo Early Career Researchers monthly coffee meeting: Mon 4th April (4 pm BST, London) The ECR Monthly coffee meeting is a one-hour...
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Mar 28, 20221 min read
WAIFC Young Academic Award
Young Academic Award, hosted by The World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC) invites young academics to submit papers or...
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Mar 4, 20222 min read
Imperial College London | Climate Investment Challenge 2022 | Invitation to Apply
The Climate Investment Challenge, a worldwide pitch competition created at the Imperial College Business School. The aim of the...
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Mar 4, 20221 min read
2022/03/08 |Ludovico Rella| An ecology of Money Infrastructures
This paper proposes an investigation of blockchain technologies – understood as money infrastructures – from the point of view of the...
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Feb 14, 20222 min read
2022/04/12 |Manuel Wirth| Doing Good with Finance? Impact investing and Marketization of the Youth Homelessness in the UK
In this talk, I present findings from my dissertation in which I studied the implementation of a social policy tool called the Social...
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Feb 14, 20222 min read
7-10/06/2022 Global Conference on Economic Geography in Dublin (Call for papers)
With financial geographies as one of the core themes of the forthcoming Global Conference on Economic Geography in Dublin (7-10 June...
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Jan 25, 20222 min read
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