School student events
The Society runs a variety of events for students including careers events, lectures and study days.
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Our full range of events will enrich your knowledge of the world's people, places and environments.
School Member lecture: Inequality - the next crisis and children – Danny Dorling
School and Student Members are invited to come along to this lecture to hear from leading academic, Danny Dorling, on the topic of inequality. This event is being held exclusively for the Society's School and Student Members only.
What do geographers actually do? - Autumn 2025
Curious to find out what geographers really do? This webinar aims to support students, teachers, and parents to understand what careers are available for those that choose to study geography.
Choose geography: careers in natural hazards
In this webinar we’re talking to professionals based in the UK who have careers spanning flood risk management, to humanitarian response. This event is appropriate to secondary school students who study weather hazards and/or tectonic hazards.
Choose geography: careers in coastal landscapes
Coastal landscapes is a core topic at KS3, GCSE and A Level, and there’s a range of careers available to geographers who are interested and passionate about this topic. We’re talking to professionals who have careers working within the coastal environment.
A Level study day - morning
A Level students will benefit from a series of sessions led by experts that focus on areas of the key stage five curriculum. Please attend only one session (morning or afternoon).
A Level study day - afternoon
A Level students will benefit from a series of sessions led by experts that focus on areas of the key stage five curriculum. Please attend only one session (morning or afternoon).
Good COP, Bad COP: modelling climate negotiations - morning
As COP30 concludes, join us for this practical, high energy and fun session that simulates climate negotiations. Using EN-ROADS - a high-quality model simulation - A Level students will explore solutions for climate change.
Good COP, Bad COP: Modelling climate negotiations - afternoon
As COP30 concludes, join us for this practical, high energy and fun session that simulates climate negotiations. Using EN-ROADS - a high-quality model simulation - A Level students will explore solutions for climate change.
The library of lost maps
James Cheshire spent three years uncovering the treasures of a long-forgotten map library for his book The Library of Lost Maps. Sharing the contents of this archive, he will reveal the power of maps and their makers to transform our world.
Environmental justice and climate action: victims of the ‘war on woke’?
Professor Laura Pulido explores how the 'war on woke' promoted by dominant figures in the US Republican Party is harming climate action and environmental justice in the US and far beyond.
Bound by water: linking Amazonian diversity and climate vulnerability
In this lecture, Julia Tavares and Thiago Silva will explore how they are combining cutting-edge methods in plant morphology and functional ecology, environmental monitoring, drone remote sensing and 3D laser scanning (LiDAR) to address a central question: How are different Amazonian forests being affected by climate change?
Predicting the ocean: a view from the Menai Strait
Britain is surrounded by ocean. But how does it function? Here Professor Tom Rippeth will examine how, over the past 2 millennia, we have pieced together nature's clues to better understand it.
Debt trap nation: family homelessness in a failing state
Across England, one of the wealthiest yet most unequal nations in the world, families are being trapped in debt and homelessness. The lecture by Professor Katherine Brickell and Professor Melanie Nowicki will take audience members inside these issues.