Courses and workshops for fieldwork and expeditions

[In-person and online] As horrifically shown in the recent Türkiye-Syria earthquake disaster, humanity has the knowledge available to avoid catastrophe and sometimes it is not applied.

[Postponed] Sanitation is one of modern urban life’s most neglected issues. This lecture makes the case for sanitation for all, arguing for renewed, equitable investment in a foundation of urban life.

[Online and in-person] Our panel will consider the technological innovations of low-carbon transport and the behaviour changes needed to reduce the carbon emissions from travel.

[Online] Join us for this 45-minute walk-through session with the Society’s resource writer Harri Hegarty. The event is online and free to attend, in partnership with the NFU.

[Postponed] [In-person] A guided visit to the construction site of Seaham Garden Village, the first large scale mine energy district heating scheme in the UK.

[Online] Join us for this online twilight session exploring some new and creative ways of delivering fieldwork in the environment within or close to your school grounds.

[In-person and Online] This lecture will explore food poverty and provisioning among UK migrant communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[In-person] Explore Honeydale Farm on an inspiring and informative guided farm walk, led by founder, Ian Wilkinson or a member of the FarmED team.

[In-person and Online] Our panel, chaired by Gillian Burke, will explore Esmond’s conviction that data are essential to wildlife protection. His generous bequest to the Society creates a major new prize to recognise such work.

[In-person] Stay for supper at the Society after the Informing action: Esmond Bradley Martin’s legacy in tackling the illegal wildlife trade lecture and meet other members and their guests.

[Online] Join Janet Rogan, experienced UK and UN diplomat and the UK’s COP26 Ambassador for the Middle East and Africa, for an insider’s account of the COP climate change process and why it matters.

[In-person and online] Through the Society's Mount Everest collection, this talk recounts the contribution of the porters in the mountaineering expeditions, and explores the possibilities of how a history of their participation can be drawn out through such archival materials.

[Online] Join the Teaching and Scholarship Forum (TeaS), an online collaborative space run by the Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd), in partnership with the Society.

[In-person and online] Bangladeshi photographer and human rights defender Shahidul Alam discusses how art, text, and creative activism, coupled with building robust institutions, can combat the stifling of dissent by repressive regimes.

[In-person] This workshop for secondary school geography teachers, led by Esri UK, will provide an insight into using ArcGIS for fieldwork and the NEA.

[Online] Your CV is the first chance to impress a potential employer. In our May Professional insights webinar professionals will reveal what they look for in CVs and give tips on how to maximise your impact.

[Cancelled] This course is aimed at Key Stage 1 and 2 teachers who are interested in developing spatial awareness skills linked to the primary geography curriculum.

[In-person and online] Hear from Professor Tom Spencer, Professor Barbara Brown and Dr Sarah Hamylton on the world’s first major expedition on a coral reef, which engaged with themes that resonate with today’s geographers: underwater adventure, gender equality, climate change and a scientific legacy that lives on.

[In-person and online] Members of the Chartered Geographer Assessors Committees are invited to attend the forum to discuss best practice, feedback and their perspectives regarding professional accreditation and assessing.

[Online] Join this interactive session to discover what the Overlays features within Digimap for Schools can do.  

[Online] This webinar will introduce placements outside of academia, offering insights on how to set up and make the most of a placement.

[In-person] An opportunity for Key Stage Three students to hear about the importance of choosing geography from trained Geography Ambassadors and Geography Professionals who aim to excite and engage students.

[Online] Our June Professional insights webinar will explore data science and how these techniques are bringing insights to geographical practice.

[In-person] An opportunity for Key Stage 3 students to hear about the importance of choosing geography from trained Geography Ambassadors and Geography Professionals who aim to excite and engage students. 

[In-person] Tom Sykes and Louis Netter’s book, Coast of Teeth, examines seaside towns in an age of austerity and climate change.
 

[In-person] Visit the Society this summer to see a stunning selection of shortlisted still and moving images across all genres, telling powerful stories about our planet, its inhabitants and lands, its beauty and power, and its fragility through the impacts of climate change.

[Online] Join this webinar to learn more about the benefits of becoming Chartered.

[Online] A four-week accelerator for those eligible for Chartered Geographer to focus your efforts in preparing your application portfolio.

[Online] Join our Chartered Geographer coffee morning to meet and network with other Chartered Geographers.

[Online] Join this webinar to learn more about the benefits of becoming Chartered.