Social and Cultural Geography Research Group

The RGS-IBG Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) would like to invite expressions of interest for sponsored sessions for the RGS-IBG 2025 Annual Conference, which will take place at the University of Birmingham and online from Wednesday 27 to Friday 29 August 2025.

The chair's theme for the 2025 Annual Conference, chaired by Professor Patricia Noxolo (University of Birmingham, UK), is on Geographies of Creativity/Creative Geographies.

SCGRG is keen to sponsor sessions that directly relate to the conference theme, as well as make room for a wide range of other issues and topics. We welcome sessions which will be of wide significance and interest to social and cultural geographers, will meaningfully contribute to ongoing debates in social and cultural geography, and demonstrate substantive, methodological or theoretical novelty.

Please take note of the guidance for session organisers.

Please submit your expressions of interest for SCGRG sponsorship by 5pm GMT on Friday 31 January 2025 through: SCGRG session sponsorship form 2025. We will endeavour to inform applicants of the outcome by Monday 24 February 2025.

Questions about SCGRG sponsored sessions should be directed to the SCGRG conference officer Rishika Mukhopadhyay r.mukhopadhyay@soton.ac.uk