Resources for schools

School Member Lecture, 5 February 2020.

The coronavirus is an extreme form of the flu which attacks the respiratory system, making the young and the old particularly vulnerable

The White Island volcano erupted on Monday 9 December 30 miles off the coast of New Zealand when 47 tourists were visiting for ‘volcano tourism’

Resources to support recent geographical stories in the press

In Australia, the 2019/2020 fire season has seen abnormally high temperatures and vast wildfires

We speak to Dr Helen Cleugh from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

We speak to Dr Christine Eriksen, a social geographer at the University of Wollongong

Ideas for further reading from books, higher education publications and the press mixed in with resources from the education team at the RGS-IBG

Where one lives in the world can have a profound influence on the standard of one’s health and life expectancy

Introducing students to some of the wide ranging topical issues related to food and food production

Danielle Smith is a Policy Officer at Oxfam. She talks to us about the ‘Behind the Brands’ campaign

Dr Ann Le Mare is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Durham University