The Postgraduate Membership is represented by a dedicated forum comprising members (postgraduate research/PhD students) from universities across the UK and beyond. Forum representatives actively participate in various BSG sub-committees and working group meetings and work closely with the BSG Executive Committee to ensure postgraduate voices are heard at every level.
The forum serves as a central platform to:
- Advocate for postgraduate research interests within the BSG community.
- Share opportunities including geomorphology-related PhD positions, research jobs (post-docs), and academic openings.
- Provide resources and support on postgraduate research and professional development.
As a member, you can benefit from:
- Research grants to support your postgraduate research projects.
- Travel grants for attending conferences and fieldwork.
- Networking opportunities with peers and leading researchers.
- Collaborative research initiatives.
- Workshops and webinars designed to enhance research skillsets.
- Active participation in shaping the future of geomorphology through forum discussions and events.
Join the forum to connect, collaborate, and advance your academic and professional journey within the geomorphology community.
The Postgraduate Forum is presently organising:
- Webinar series: Geomorph Talks: Methods, Models & More (GT-M3)
- Online networking events
The other future plans are:
- e-Workshops
- Summer events: PGR symposium/training school
- Weekend trips
- Geomorphology Outreach
- Geomorphic Data Bank
- EGU Crowd-Solving Problems in Earth Sciences
Meet our Team
Chair & Communications Officer: Jayesh Mukherjee (Aberystwyth University)
Website Officer: Adam Hartley (Queen Mary University of London)
Sub-Committee PGR Representatives
Outreach and Education: Ayyappadas C.S. (University of Oxford)
Professional: Varsha Natarajan (Ulster University)
Research: Tom Mair (University of Manchester)
ED&I Working Group: Siddha Kumwongwan (Queen Mary University of London)
Other members
Shashi Shekhar Shukla (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Zareena Khan (Queen Mary University of London)
Melanie Bettles (Newcastle University)
Faith Luciana Imhanze (Loughborough University)
Magdalena Koschmieder (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Contact us
Drop us an email if you are interested in joining the PG Forum or reach out for any queries: bsgpostgrads@gmail.com
Windsor Workshop
The BSG runs a workshop for new research students in December each year and we encourage all geomorphology PhD students to attend. The workshop introduces new skills and ideas, and you’ll meet fellow new postgraduates, practicing researchers and the BSG postgraduate representatives.
The content is non-technical, but provides training in project management, group work, dealing with large data sets, fieldwork, lab and numerical modelling, gaining funding as well as publication and future career development. One of the most important aspects is meeting other new researchers, finding out how PhDs work for others in different Universities and often making friends and contacts that can last a career. You’ll meet a wide variety of academics and facilitators who are practising researchers as well as the current BSG Postgraduate Forum chair on the Executive Committee. The current BSG chair will give a talk about their PhD experience, and Stuart Lane (Managing editor of ESPL) will give a session on publication. Sessions will also involve professional geomorphologists working in the industry as well as other BSG postgraduates.
The cost of the course is heavily subsidised for BSG postgraduate research members (non members need to join the BSG at the excellent value postgraduate rate of £55 for four years). The cost of the course covers breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as tea/coffee breaks and accommodation in Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park.
As well as being a former home to royalty, Cumberland lodge features in several feature films including the Kings Speech. You can find more information about the Lodge here.
Please see the dedicated Windsor Workshop page here for more details.
Check out these blog posts from previous attendees of the BSG Windsor Workshop:
Blog posts from the December 2024 workshop: Windsor Workshop 2024 blog post
Blog posts from the December 2023 workshop: Windsor Workshop 2023 blog post
Blog post from the December 2022 workshop: Windsor Workshop 2022 blog post
Find older blog posts here.
Contact us at bsg@geomorphology.org.uk and check out the dedicated Windsor Workshop page here.
