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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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Human dimensions of climate change in the Arctic
Ishfaq Hussain Malik’s research examines the human dimensions of climate change in the Arctic, understanding how communities experience, perceive, and respond to climate change.
Perceiving climate: education
How do educators respond to the challenge of climate change, and help their communities to more clearly perceive and respond to it?
Air pollution and environmental justice? Differential exposure across UK regions and communities
Substantial differences exist in both concentrations of outdoor air pollutants and the distribution of emission sources across the UK. How these differences are experienced by individuals, however, is unclear.
The rise and rise of the French Riviera
Jim Ring traces the story of the Riviera back to the British aristocrats who discovered it in the late eighteenth century. Despite rampant development since World War II, he identifies the qualities that have enabled the Cote d'Azur to stay ahead of the pack.
Plastic snow: a participatory approach to measuring airborne microplastics in the home
Joins us to hear from Dr Ben Williams on how HOMEs Under the Microscope brought scientists, citizens and other stakeholders together to develop a new way to measure microplastics in the home.
It shouldn't happen to a conservationist
Andy Lester will be dicussing the need to change the way we do conservation for a more resilient future.
School Member lecture: Glacial environments in a warming world
School and student members are invited to come along to this lecture to hear from leading academics in the field of glaciation and cold environments. This event is being held exclusively for the Society’s School and Student members only.
Pushing the new frontiers of marine science in Antarctica on the RRS Sir David Attenborough
Join us for this illustrated talk on living and working onboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough as well as updates from the PICCOLO project in Antarctica.
Youth microlectures: Peterborough
Join us to hear students from schools in and around Peterborough talk on the theme of people, prosperity, planet, partnership and peace from the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
Surveying the surveyors: mapping ‘hidden’ geographies of Ireland's Ordnance Survey
Celebrating 200 years since the Ordnance Survey began its work in Ireland, this talk takes us on a journey following the footsteps of the OS surveyors of the 1820-30s, and reveals the 'hidden' geographies of their encounters with people and places as they traversed Ireland's townlands and landscapes.
Platinum print Collections talk
Join the Society’s manager of photography for a glass of wine, talk and private viewing of a new, permanent, display of platinum prints created from the Society’s Everest negative collection. The Society’s entire collection of platinum prints will be on display including those from the Endurance expedition as well as period prints by the photographer’s own hand.
Youth microlectures: Norwich
A fun evening of microlectures from senior pupils from the Norwich Schools Partnership showcasing a broad range of subjects in human, physical and environmental geography.