Meet the WISIONS Team at the 2017 Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG

The WISIONS team will participate in this year’s edition of the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society in London, from Tuesday 29 August to Friday 1 September 2017.

The overarching theme of this years’s conference is Decolonising geographical knowledges: opening geography out to the world.

The WISIONS team will participate in the session entitled Energy Learning and Social Change on 31 August and present a paper entitled Energy Learning in Off-Grid Regions – the Role of Practitioners and Community Organisers. More information on this session is available here.

Further general information, including a full programme and details on the conference’s venue, is available on the Royal Geographical Society’s website.

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