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Cartograms and cartography with Professor Ben Hennig by Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Schools

Cartograms and cartography with Professor Ben Hennig

Ben Hennig is Professor of Geography at the University of Iceland, an honorary research associate at the University of Oxford and also the founder of Worldmapper. Ben sat down with John to talk about his career to date, his work at the University of Iceland, the origins of the Worldmapper project, Trump tweets and much more.  Series 7 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Britannica.  Take Britannica's LaunchPacks GCSE for a spin with history and geography lessons, built with Shireland Academy educators and mapped to UK curriculum needs. Within each KS3-4 topical pack, find a learning route, learning journey instructions, printable activities, and corresponding Britannica LaunchPacks articles and multimedia resources. 10% off for GeogPod listeners!  Links from the pod Ben's website Views of the World (blog) Worldmapper Project GeoVis Lab Iceland (research group) Re-Enlightening Views of the World (4-minute ‘lightning talk’ about Ben's work) Selected readings mentioned in the podcast Overview of Ben's main academic publications on GoogleScholar Sheffield – A Tale of Two Cities (by the Sheffield Sasi Research Group) COVID-19’s Spread Across the World (access by request)  In Focus: How Joe Biden Won the White House (access by request) In Focus: Trump Tweets: Power and the Global Politics of Social Media (access by request) In Focus: Nationality, Citizenship and Refugees: A Global Perspective (access by request) Spatial and temporal inequalities in mortality in the USA, 1968–2016 (open access) Monitoring fish spawning sites in freshwater ecosystems using low-cost UAV data: A case study of salmonids in lakes in Iceland (pre-print, open access) 

<a href="https://english.hi.is/staff/ben" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ben Hennig</a> is Professor of Geography at the University of Iceland, an honorary research associate at the University of Oxford and also the founder of Worldmapper. Ben sat down with John to talk about his career to date, his work at the University of Iceland, the origins of the Worldmapper project, Trump tweets and much more.  Series 7 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Britannica.  Take <a href="https://forms.gle/ZzR6zPPt3qYFMzTG9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Britannica's LaunchPacks</a> GCSE for a spin with history and geography lessons, built with Shireland Academy educators and mapped to UK curriculum needs. Within each KS3-4 topical pack, find a learning route, learning journey instructions, printable activities, and corresponding Britannica LaunchPacks articles and multimedia resources. 10% off for GeogPod listeners!  Links from the pod <a href="https://geoviews.net/#home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ben's website</a> <a href="http://www.viewsoftheworld.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Views of the World (blog)</a> <a href="https://worldmapper.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Worldmapper Project</a> <a href="https://geovis.hi.is" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GeoVis Lab Iceland (research group)</a> <a href="http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/?p=5767" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Re-Enlightening Views of the World (4-minute ‘lightning talk’ about Ben's work)</a> Selected readings mentioned in the podcast <a href="https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&amp;user=NXD8bMwAAAAJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Overview of Ben's main academic publications on GoogleScholar</a> <a href="http://www.dannydorling.org/wp-content/files/dannydorling_publication_id2016.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sheffield – A Tale of Two Cities (by the Sheffield Sasi Research Group)</a> <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341694771_COVID-19" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">COVID-19’s Spread Across the World (access by request) </a> <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347067228_In_Focus_How_Joe_Biden_Won_the_White_House" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In Focus: How Joe Biden Won the White House (access by request)</a> <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349603702_In_Focus_Trump_Tweets_Power_and_the_Global_Politics_of_Social_Media" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In Focus: Trump Tweets: Power and the Global Politics of Social Media (access by request)</a> <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344529458_In_Focus_Nationality_Citizenship_and_Refugees_A_Global_Perspective" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In Focus: Nationality, Citizenship and Refugees: A Global Perspective (access by request)</a> <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829221000824" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spatial and temporal inequalities in mortality in the USA, 1968–2016 (open access)</a> <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.12.448199v1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Monitoring fish spawning sites in freshwater ecosystems using low-cost UAV data: A case study of salmonids in lakes in Iceland (pre-print, open access)</a>