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What's on

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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Summit Photo 2025 - info and tickets

This September, join us for Summit Photo, your unique chance to hear from renowned photographers. Book tickets for one day, two days, or the entire weekend.

£22.50 - £75.00

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Webinar

Geography in practice: WorldPop - how geospatial data puts people on the map

This webinar will explore how the WorldPop Research Group at the University of Southampton is combining traditional survey data with new geospatial data sources to develop innovative data science methods that can help us to better understand the spatial distribution of people across the globe.

Exhibition

Great Ape - Art, science and sustainability

A 13m Great Ape by artist Lisa Roet, with talks exploring art, science, and sustainability during London's Design Congress.

Non-Society event

Professor Tim Spector – The life-changing power of microbes

The world-leading scientist and bestselling author of 'Food For Life', Tim Spector joins Adam Rutherford to reveal the rapidly-evolving science of fermented foods and their extraordinary effect upon health.

Lecture

A history of polar exploration in 50 objects - Exeter

Writer, biographer and researcher Anne Strathie shares stories of objects from key periods in polar exploration history, from Cook’s circumnavigations in the 1770s to the aviation age of the early 1930s.

£10.00 - £12.00
Webinar

Geography in practice: fixing the foundations - a call for GIS standards in BNG

This webinar explores the FRIDAS® checklist, a practical framework for improving Geographic Information System (GIS) data quality in Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) submissions.

Non-Society event

The Earth convention live: land and soil

5x15 and Greenbank invite you to a special panel on Land and Soil, featuring Isabella Tree and a stellar line-up.

£10.00 - £15.00
Lecture

Public space for all - Pippa Catterall

Have you ever entered a space, a room, a building and felt that you do not belong there, or you do not feel safe? Too much public space marginalises rather than includes, whilst safety features are often designed more to protect property than people.

£3.00 - £6.00
Non-Society event

Blue Finance 2025

This event will bring together ocean sustainability and finance specialists to explore how capital can be directed toward sustainable investment.

£85.00 - £245.00
Webinar

Geospatial transformation and the future of property valuation

Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the Valuation Office Agency’s (VOA) first enterprise-level Geographic Information System: Valuation Mapping System (VMS). This is a joint webinar with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Government Geography Profession (GGP).

Discussion

Fabricating futures: textiles, sustainability, and the cultural fabric of tomorrow

Inspired by Lisa Roet’s dramatic 13m great ape installation on the Society’s building, this series of talks will explore how fabric, one of humanity’s oldest technologies, is being reimagined through art, fashion and design for regenerative futures.

£5.00 - £12.00
Lecture

A history of polar exploration in 50 objects - Falmouth

Writer, biographer and researcher Anne Strathie shares stories of objects from key periods in polar exploration history, from Cook’s circumnavigations in the 1770s to the aviation age of the early 1930s.

£12.00 - £15.00
Exhibition

Earth Photo: Wray Castle

Visit National Trust Wray Castle to see a stunning selection of the selected and winning images from this years competition.