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Find out about Geography and Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Visits to schools
The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies can offer a range of in person and online sessions for GCSE and A-Level Students. The department can offer a wide range of topics to fit your interests, these include:
- The Amazon, environmental monitoring with Indigenous communities
- Space junk and ethics
- Green cities
- Cities and environmental change
- Rurality
- Gen AI
- Climate change in Cameroon
- Social Determinants of Health: Through the lens of the 2014 Ebola outbreak
- Understanding Power: A workshop examining how power operates in societies
- If We Had $100 Billion... thinking about real-world development dilemmas
- Should we be worried about global warming? the science and politics of climate change
- Migration
- Why geographical concepts can change the world
- Why the everyday geographies of children and young people matter
And much more, please just ask!
Virtual Fieldwork
Two ArcGIS StoryMap learning resources aimed at post-16 (but can also be used for pre-16 students). Each StoryMap includes teacher guidance notes on how these can be related to different geography curriculums and awarding bodies.
1. Virtual Field Trip to Strand-Aldwych that uses the recent pedestrianisation project of The Strand, London to explore the social and environmental entanglements of the area using a range of data including quantitative, textual, historical and audio-visual (including both day and night time walkthrough of the area).
2. Who tells Stories? Migrant Business Women in Bloomsbury, 1911. This recent OU research project brings census data of marginalised communities to life with a virtual walking tour and song.
Teacher CPD and resources
Open Learn offers a range of learning materials, including geography, environmental studies and across the OU range of modules. It also includes study and work skills resources such as writing and time management articles, short courses. Some courses also offer digital badges and certificates that can be used to evidence learning.
The Open University offers a range of Geography Modules that can be studied in isolation or as part of a degree. Find out more at Geography and Environmental Studies modules
The OU can offer lectures or talks on a range of topics (see Projects, Staff and Research pages for further details) or studying Geography and Environmental Studies at The Open University and how this might be a good option for your students. These can be online or, where possible, in person.
Online events can be found here: Events | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
If your careers’ team would like copies of the OU undergraduate and/or Geography prospectuses, please email.
Contact
Please contact the OU and they can connect you to relevant members of staff: GeographyandEnvironment@open.ac.uk
