Audience sat in the Ondaatje Theatre at the Society.

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Browse our in-person and online events, including our Monday night lectures, regional events and teacher CPD sessions. You can also watch a selection of our past talks.

 

 

 

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Lecture

Silk Roads: ancient and modern

Drawing from his experience of travelling sections of the Silk Road, Eric Woods reflects on this famous network of trade routes and what it will become as the belt and road initiative.

Monday night lecture

Predicting the ocean: a view from the Menai Strait

Britain is surrounded by ocean. But how does it function? Here Professor Tom Rippeth will examine how, over the past 2 millennia, we have pieced together nature's clues to better understand it.

Webinar

From pixels to peat: the England Peat Map

Join this lunchtime webinar exploring the England Peat Map, covering the data and methods used as well as the outputs produced.

Webinar

COP 30: What just happened?

RGS-IBG Climate Change Research Group is hosting an expert panel discussion to address the details, outcomes, expectations as well as critique of COP 30 in Belém, Brazil.

Lecture

Discarded: how will today’s artefacts form part of our future fossil record

How long will the artefacts of human activity last? What might their potential fossil record look like, and how will they form over time?

£0.00 - £5.00
Lecture

How to save the city: a guide for emergency action

Paul Chatterton explores aiming for a car-free and post-carbon city, involving ecological and government change.

Workshop

A Level study day - morning

A Level students will benefit from a series of sessions led by experts that focus on areas of the key stage five curriculum. Please attend only one session (morning or afternoon).

£10.00 - £15.00
Workshop

Good COP, Bad COP: modelling climate negotiations - morning

As COP30 concludes, join us for this practical, high energy and fun session that simulates climate negotiations. Using EN-ROADS - a high-quality model simulation - A Level students will explore solutions for climate change.

Workshop

A Level study day - afternoon

A Level students will benefit from a series of sessions led by experts that focus on areas of the key stage five curriculum. Please attend only one session (morning or afternoon).

£10.00 - £15.00
Workshop

Good COP, Bad COP: Modelling climate negotiations - afternoon

As COP30 concludes, join us for this practical, high energy and fun session that simulates climate negotiations. Using EN-ROADS - a high-quality model simulation - A Level students will explore solutions for climate change.

£10.00 - £15.00
Lecture

Climate change and the global ‘wildfire crisis’

Professor Stefan Doerr will talk about the increase in wildfires and the recent media interactions regarding Donald Trump’s comments on the causes of wildfires in the USA.

£3.00 - £6.00
Monday night lecture

Debt trap nation: family homelessness in a failing state

Across England, one of the wealthiest yet most unequal nations in the world, families are being trapped in debt and homelessness. The lecture by Professor Katherine Brickell and Professor Melanie Nowicki will take audience members inside these issues.