During reading week the first year Geographers took to Catalonia, to cary out human fieldwork in Barcelona and physical fieldwork in Sitges. Johannes Wittig also took the opportunity to take a series of epic photos from his Phantom 3 advanced drone. This aerial shot of the beaches at Sitges with its prominent groyne sea defence won…

Emily Spary reviews ‘Big Bang Data’ at Somerset House, an exhibition which explores the role of data in the Digital Age, and indeed, in our everyday lives.  The explosion of data into our lives has fundamentally shaped all that we do in this Digital Age. Daily, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created, and we have…