Geology for Global Development

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Blog Competition 2013 – Winning entries

This summer Geology for Global Development ran a blog competition – inviting you to submit articles on one of two topics or share some of your favourite images. Thank you for all of your thoughtful and interesting entries, we very much enjoyed reading your posts and seeing your photos. All entries have been considered by a panel of five independent judges, and after careful deliberation, we ...[Read More]

Building Scientific Technical Capacity in Developing Countries

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology POSTnote Number 216 discusses the importance of building ‘Scientific Capacity in Developing Countries’.  In short, this highlights how science and technology can play an important role in fighting poverty, disease and environmental degradation, and yet the numbers of researchers in the developing world falls well below other areas of t ...[Read More]

Fighting Global Poverty – Can Geologists Help? – Updated Programme

We’re currently nine weeks away from the GfGD National Conference and in the process of finalising the conference programme. Here is a summary of the key sessions and speakers. (N.B. In addition to the above speakers, we are delighted that Jane Joughin, Principal Environmental Consultant at SRK Consulting, will be speaking on the important role that mining geology can play in fighting global ...[Read More]

GfGD News and Updates

The summer is a busy period for many people and it can be hard to keep track of all that is going on. We’re taking the opportunity today to give you an update on GfGD’s work, and key ways in which YOU can get involved… Blog & Image Competition There is still time (just!) to apply for our 2013 blog and image competition, full details can be found here. The deadline is midday t ...[Read More]