About Cliff
Cliff Fletcher-Jones (MSc MSc MMOAS iPGCE CGeog (Teacher) FRGS QSI) is a teacher at Jerudong International School in Brunei Darussalam. He teaches Geography across Key Stage 3, IGCSE, and the IB Diploma Programme, coordinates the Extended Project Qualification, teaches Theory of Knowledge to IBDP students, and provides geography-based careers guidance. With his department he has undertaken residential fieldwork in the rainforests and rivers of Borneo, on the volcanoes of East Java, and in the urban environment of Singapore. He is a Chartered Geographer (Teacher) and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and he guest lectures in geopolitics, geostrategy, and astropolitics at Loughborough University, the University of Staffordshire, McGill University, and Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Cliff also trained at Central School of Ballet, London, and danced professionally, and that background shapes his distinctive approach to movement, space and meaning.
Before teaching, Cliff served for twenty years in the Royal Air Force, retiring as a Wing Commander. His roles included Assistant Chief of Staff at HQ UK Space Command, Deputy Director of US European and Africa Command Space Forces, and Head of the Space Education Faculty at the Air and Space Warfare School. As a Research Fellow at King's College London, he developed Anthrocosmology and Orbitscapes and at and Loughborough University Institute of Advanced Studies he co-developed Remote Geopolitics. His research appears in the King's College London Freeman Papers and in RUSI publications. He holds an iPGCE, two MScs and a US Master of Military Operational Art and Science (Summa Cum Laude). He is vice-chair of the Brunei National Committee to Committee on Space Research.
Support is offered for the following Key Stages:
Secondary (KS3, KS4, KS5)
What can Cliff offer to schools?
Cliff brings together classroom teaching, university lecturing, and applied geography from defence and policy to offer the following:
Extension and enrichment sessions for students and teachers: Talks and workshops that take geography beyond the syllabus and prepare students for university study. Example topics include:
- Geographies of outer space: orbits as terrain, launch sites as landscapes, and space debris.
- Vertical geographies: from the deep ocean to low Earth orbit.
- Geopolitics and astropolitics: power, territory, and governance on Earth and beyond.
- Remote geopolitics: outer space, the polar regions, and the deep sea.
- Humanity and the cosmos: an anthrocosmology session suited to cultural geography or IBDP Theory of Knowledge.
CPD for teachers: Subject knowledge updates in political geography, geopolitics, and space geography, with practical strategies for teaching abstract and large-scale concepts at GCSE, A Level and IB.
Geography careers mentoring: Guidance for students on where geography leads, drawing on Cliff's experience in defence, space, policy, research, and education.
EPQ supervision and coordination: Support for students with project design, research and reflection, and support for schools with setting up and running the EPQ.
Chartered Geographer (Teacher) mentoring: One-to-one support for teachers working towards Chartered status, including the competency framework, evidence and CPD records.
Fieldwork: jungle, volcanoes, and tropical rivers: Planning and leading residential fieldwork in tropical rainforest, river, and volcanic environments in Southeast Asia, with experience as medical lead.
Format of sessions
Sessions are available online worldwide and can be scheduled for UK and international time zones. Cliff can deliver sessions in person in Brunei and Southeast Asia, and in the UK during the summer holidays or when he is in the country.
Pricing
Student sessions are free when Cliff's schedule allows. Teacher scoping sessions are free but CPD sessions carry a fee, negotiable depending on length. Schools cover travel costs where needed.
Other consultancy services offered by Cliff
Cliff is always happy to collaborate on research and authoring.
How to contact Cliff
To contact Cliff, please email Claire Brown at the RGS-IBG c.brown@rgs.org, and your email will be forwarded to Cliff.
You can also make contact via Cliff's LinkedIn account
