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Welcome to the website of the Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG).

We are an academic research group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG).

Digital technologies are changing the life worlds we research as well as the very way we ourselves undertake research and teaching. Therefore this group seeks to be a welcoming forum to discuss these changes for geographers from different epistemic and methodological traditions, and for those conducting theoretical as well as applied research work. The DGRG is a platform for exchanges within and between sub-disciplines, engaging with the diversity of geographies of and through the digital, and thereby nurtures and deepens discussion of geographical digital scholarship and practice.

Our 2024 Annual General Meeting will be held during the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference which will be chaired by Professor Stephen Legg on the theme of Mapping and will take place in London from Tuesday 27 August to Friday 30 August 2024.

Our AGM is the point of the year when the committee reports to the membership and we all reflect on what has been achieved in the last year, plan the next year, and hear new suggestions for how the group is run and what it can do. We also elect committee members for open positions, and farewell previous committee members who are leaving. All ideas and suggestions are very welcome. 

Digital Geographies Research Group Sponsored Sessions at the 2024 RGS Conference

The committee have put a document together to help those interested in digital geographies to identify sessions sponsored by the DGRG. This document also includes details about our AGM.

Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Symposium 2024 Mobilities and the Digital

Date: 21 June 2024, Location: Elm House, University of Birmingham and Online. Supported by the Institute for STEMM in Culture and Society (ISTEMMiCS).

We recently had our DGRG Symposium, which provided a space to explore a wide range of topics and contexts where mobilities and the digital intersect as well as the broader societal, cultural and political contexts in which these changes occur. The conference featured keynotes from Professor David Bissell (University of Melbourne), researcher and author of Transit Life: How commuting is transforming our cities. The keynote panel featured researchers and practitioners developing social science approaches and insights into emerging technologies, perspectives on innovation studies, and insights into responsible research innovation. The book panel discussed Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI (Routledge) edited by Federico Cugurullo and colleagues. We also had over 16 exciting papers and digital shorts shared across the day at the conference. The conference programme can be found here.