Upcoming courses and workshops

Creating disaster: analysing the Türkiye-Syria earthquakes - Professor Ilan Kelman

[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.

Sanitation for all? Cities and the right to citylife - Professor Colin McFarlane

[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.

Is travel worth the carbon emissions?

[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.

Geography, farming and food - resources walk-through

[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.

Seaham Garden Village and the Dawdon Minewater Treatment Scheme - Charlotte Adams

[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.

Go local: great ideas for fieldwork in and around your school grounds

[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.

Migration, food insecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic - Professor Kavita Datta

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

FarmED walk and talk

[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.

Informing action: Esmond Bradley Martin’s legacy in tackling the illegal wildlife trade

[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.

Monday night lecture supper

[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.

The Paris agenda - why COPs matter: global goals, international rulebook, national action

[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.

Labour in the lofty peaks: porters in the Everest expeditions (1921 - 1938) - Nokmedemla Lemtur

[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.

Teaching and Scholarship Forum (TeaS)

[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.

Resisting repressive regimes - Shahidul Alam

[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.

GIS for fieldwork and the NEA

[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.

Professional insights: making impact with your CV

[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.

Map skills and online mapping for primary geography

[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.

The Great Barrier Reef expedition 1928-1929: birth of modern coral reef science

[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.

Chartered Geographer assessor forum

[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.

Digimap for Schools: a quick guide to Overlays

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

Placements during your postgraduate studies: how and why?

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

Going places with geography: summer (KS3)

[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.

Professional insights: data science and geography – a beginner's guide

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

Going places with geography: summer (KS3)

[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. 

Psychogeography, imaginative spaces and English seaside towns - Dr Tom Sykes and Dr Louis Netter

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

Earth Photo exhibition

[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.

Making an application for Chartered Geographer - introductory webinar

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

Chartered Geographer application accelerator

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

Chartered Geographer virtual coffee morning

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

Making an application for Chartered Geographer - introductory webinar

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