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SEGS PhD student wins competition at American geographers' conference

SEGS PhD student wins competition at American geographers' conference

Andrew Maclaren's research was recognised at the recent AAG conference in Boston
"With more than 9,000 delegates from across the world in attendance, the AAG conference is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in geography and related disciplines"
Rural village in Scotland (c) James Hutton Institute

Research by a PhD student jointly funded by the James Hutton Institute and the University of Aberdeen has won the Student Paper Competition at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) conference held in Boston, USA, earlier this month.

Andrew Maclaren’s doctoral research paper on ‘More-than-Representational Knowledges of Rural Ageing’, presented at the conference session ‘New Voices in Rural Geography’, was named winner of the paper competition by the AAG’s Rural Geography Specialty Group.

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute