
Circular arguments
The call for abstracts has recently opened for 2017's World Water Week in Stockholm. I love this event - had the opportunity to give a...

Investing Responsibly
Students reading for a D.Phil (PhD) at Oxford are formally assessed a couple of times over the course of their studies. Yesterday I...

End of term
It's 9th week in Oxford, which means term is officially over for undergraduates. My department suddenly feels deserted, although we're...

SoGE Annual Review
My Department's Annual Review came out today, and a cracking read it is too. Billed as a snapshot of the School of Geography and the...

Clothes for the emperor
I give a regular class on Dr. David Johnstone's elective for master's students that looks, inter alia, at water infrastructure. My brief...

Whitewall rafting
I participated in my first Whitewall 'ideation session' in Oxford today, led by the redoubtable Lucas Kruitwagen. Over two hours at sunny...

Thank you, British Academy!
I am delighted to have secured one of 16 grants awarded by the British Academy, under their Sustainable Development Programme. The grant...

War Games
I had an opportunity to participate in an energy transitions wargaming session, run by my colleagues in Sustainable Finance, along with...