Professional Practice Groups
Professional Practice Groups bring together people with an interest in a thematic or sectoral area of professional geographical practice for networking and professional development.
Purpose and activities of Professional Practice Groups
The primary purpose of Professional Practice Groups is to support and promote their area of geography through support for professional practice. Their interests may also overlap into education, policy, research and innovation.
The Groups offer support through activities that might include but are not limited to:
- Organising networking and knowledge exchange events.
- Offering mentoring opportunities.
- Keeping members up to date with the latest developments in their field.
- Sharing best practice resources.
- Distributing news and information about relevant opportunities.
The Groups support and enhance the professional development and lifelong learning of Chartered Geographers, and those working towards the accreditation. They achieve this by building stronger links between geographers within specific sectors or fields of work.
Proposing and operating a Professional Practice Group
The framework for Professional Practice Groups is based upon and complementary to the Society's successful Research and Working Groups, some of which have been in operation for more than forty years (originally established within the Institute of British Geographers).
Professional Practice Groups will be encouraged to foster sector-specific networking and more in-depth and targeted professional development over a specified period of time, initially two years but potentially renewable.
A handbook for proposing and operating Professional Practice Groups will be published soon.
If you are interested in proposing a Group in a specific sector or area of practice, please contact professional@rgs.org to arrange an initial conversation with the Professional and Policy Manager.
