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SUMMARY:Writing and reviewing for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Hosted in collaboration with the Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd)\, this session is designed to encourage and enable new academics/postgraduates who have undertaken pedagogic research to publish and disseminate their work to the rest of the geographic community.After discussing the mission of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (JGHE)\, panellists will explain the submission\, review\, and publication processes of the JGHE.Topics will include the nature of material appropriate for submission\, the types and level of evidence necessary to support findings\, the recommended length of manuscripts\, advice about writing for an international readership\, and JGHE’s citation index.In this practical workshop\, prospective authors will interact with panellists through an interactive paper review session and discuss issues specific to manuscripts they are planning or writing. Practical guidance and advice will be provided to potential authors. The detailed discussion will be responsive to the needs and interests of the participants. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\nDavid Higgitt (University of Lancaster)\, JGHE Editor-in-Chief\n\n\n\nDerek France (University of Chester)\, JGHE Editor\n\n\n\nSonja Rewhorn (The Open University\, UK) GeogEd Treasurer and JGHE Editorial Board Member\n\n\n\nAlan Marvell (University of Gloucestershire)\, GeogEd Chair and JGHE Editorial Board Member\n\n\n\nVicky Johnson (The Open University\, UK)\, GeogEd Committee Member and JGHE Editorial Board Member\n\n\n\n\nAdvance booking required – book here.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/writing-and-reviewing-for-the-journal-of-geography-in-higher-education/
LOCATION:Online – advanced booking required
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250829T165000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250829T183000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T083928Z
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SUMMARY:Crǝativethnographies (2) Exploring new ways to co-produce young people's geographies using arts\, fiction and so-much-more-than-that (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nOrganised by: \n\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Panel Chair: Itta Bauer\, University of Zurich\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nThis session aims at bringing together people – including geographers and social or educational researchers – who share three interests: \n\n\n\n\nFirst\, they collaborate\, learn\, study or work with children or young people.\n\n\n\nSecond\, they have experience and/or interest in ethnographic research designs that involve young people with diverse backgrounds.\n\n\n\nThird\, they are open-minded and eager to explore how we might fill “crǝativethnographies” collaboratively as a methodological approach that combines art-based\, fictional and other creative ways to express individual as well as collective experiences\, views and challenges.\n\n\n\n\nThe intention of this gathering is to respond to previous research with similar foci (e.g. Cole & Knowles\, 2001; de Freitas\, 2003; Gilles & Robinson\, 2012; Kill\, 2022; Leavy\, 2013; Mendus & Connelly-Mendus\, 2024; Rizvi\, 2019\, Stafford\, 2017; Watson\, Morgan & Bull\, 2021). We may take this session as an opportunity to explore if “crǝativethnographies” is a useful term to extend these approaches or move to somewhere else. \n\n\n\nThe interactive short paper format of the session has been deliberately chosen to share ideas on not yet fully cooked up\, ongoing\, but also finished projects that combine interests in arts\, ethnography and young people. Hopefully\, this brings together conceptual\, methodological and empirical work from different social and spatial contexts. \n\n\n\nPresentations may\, for example\, focus on \n\n\n\n\nsuggesting fresh ideas how to create an inclusive network of people interested in “crǝativethnographies” reaching out beyond academia?\n\n\n\nelaborating empirical examples where creative educational spaces in play groups\, schools\, youth clubs or more informal or online gatherings enable new ways to fathom out the chances\, challenges and threats that young people experience during creative acts and performances.\n\n\n\ninterrogating established concepts in terms of ethnographic work or art-based ethnographies with young people and their participation\, collaboration and responsibility in these projects.\n\n\n\nexploring creative ways in which young people engage in activism and/or fight for environmental\, social or other forms of justice.\n\n\n\nimplying an art-based research design in different stages of the research process\n\n\n\nillustrate how young people and researchers (or teachers) use social media and hybrid forms of interaction and communication to publish their arguments and publicise their actions.\n\n\n\nengaging with conceptual ideas and their consequences\, such as “fiction as research practice” (Leavy\, 2013) and fiction (or other art) as research output.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-creativethnographies2/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group,Other RGS Research Groups,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250829T144000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250829T162000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20250717T083847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T084000Z
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SUMMARY:Crǝativethnographies (1) Exploring new ways to co-produce young people's geographies using arts\, fiction and so-much-more-than-that (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nOrganised by: \n\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Panel Chair: Itta Bauer\, University of Zurich\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nThis session aims at bringing together people – including geographers and social or educational researchers – who share three interests: \n\n\n\n\nFirst\, they collaborate\, learn\, study or work with children or young people.\n\n\n\nSecond\, they have experience and/or interest in ethnographic research designs that involve young people with diverse backgrounds.\n\n\n\nThird\, they are open-minded and eager to explore how we might fill “crǝativethnographies” collaboratively as a methodological approach that combines art-based\, fictional and other creative ways to express individual as well as collective experiences\, views and challenges.\n\n\n\n\nThe intention of this gathering is to respond to previous research with similar foci (e.g. Cole & Knowles\, 2001; de Freitas\, 2003; Gilles & Robinson\, 2012; Kill\, 2022; Leavy\, 2013; Mendus & Connelly-Mendus\, 2024; Rizvi\, 2019\, Stafford\, 2017; Watson\, Morgan & Bull\, 2021). We may take this session as an opportunity to explore if “crǝativethnographies” is a useful term to extend these approaches or move to somewhere else. \n\n\n\nThe interactive short paper format of the session has been deliberately chosen to share ideas on not yet fully cooked up\, ongoing\, but also finished projects that combine interests in arts\, ethnography and young people. Hopefully\, this brings together conceptual\, methodological and empirical work from different social and spatial contexts. \n\n\n\nPresentations may\, for example\, focus on \n\n\n\n\nsuggesting fresh ideas how to create an inclusive network of people interested in “crǝativethnographies” reaching out beyond academia?\n\n\n\nelaborating empirical examples where creative educational spaces in play groups\, schools\, youth clubs or more informal or online gatherings enable new ways to fathom out the chances\, challenges and threats that young people experience during creative acts and performances.\n\n\n\ninterrogating established concepts in terms of ethnographic work or art-based ethnographies with young people and their participation\, collaboration and responsibility in these projects.\n\n\n\nexploring creative ways in which young people engage in activism and/or fight for environmental\, social or other forms of justice.\n\n\n\nimplying an art-based research design in different stages of the research process\n\n\n\nillustrate how young people and researchers (or teachers) use social media and hybrid forms of interaction and communication to publish their arguments and publicise their actions.\n\n\n\nengaging with conceptual ideas and their consequences\, such as “fiction as research practice” (Leavy\, 2013) and fiction (or other art) as research output.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-creativethnographies1/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group,Other RGS Research Groups,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250829T111000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250829T125000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20250717T081916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T082302Z
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SUMMARY:Writing successfully for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nPanel: \n\n\n\n\nDerek France\, University of Chester\n\n\n\nSonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\nAlan Marvell\, University of Gloucestershire\n\n\n\nHarry West\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\nDavid Higgitt\, University of Lancaster\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nThis session is designed to encourage and enable new academics/postgraduates that have undertaken pedagogic research to get their work published and disseminated to the rest of the geographic community.  \n\n\n\nAfter discussing the mission of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (JGHE)\, panelists will explain the submission\, review\, and publication processes of the JGHE. Topics will include the nature of material appropriate for submission\, the types and level of evidence necessary to support findings\, the recommended length of manuscripts\, advice about writing for an international readership\, and JGHE’s citation index.  \n\n\n\nIn this practical workshop\, prospective authors will interact with panelists through an interactive paper review session and to discuss issues specific to manuscripts they are planning or writing. Practical guidance and advice will be provided to potential authors. The session will end with a plenary around the demands of getting published.  \n\n\n\nIt should be noted that the proposed running order of the session needs to be flexible to accommodate the needs and level of response from prospective.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-writing-for-j-geog-he/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250829T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250829T104000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20250717T081438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T081439Z
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SUMMARY:2025 Journal of Geography in Higher Education Annual Lecture (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nThe Journal of Geography in Higher Education‘s annual lecture\, given by Dr Jennifer Hill\, University of the West of England.  \n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr Jennifer Hill\, University of the West of England\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Panel Chair: David Higgitt\, University of Lancaster\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Panel Chair: Derek France\, University of Chester\n\n\n\nConvenor: Sonja Rewhorn\, The Open University
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-j-geog-he-annual-lecture/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,Annual lecture,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250828T165000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250828T183000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20250715T151121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T081627Z
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SUMMARY:Creating pathways to leadership in Geography HE - Panel discussion (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nPanel: \n\n\n\n\nConvenor: Sonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\nConvenor: Vicky Johnson\, The Open University\n\n\n\nConvenor: Matt Finn\, University of Exeter\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nThe higher education landscape is changing\, with precarity\, whether this is institutional restructures\, shrinkages within universities\, dissolution of geography departments or the ever-growing workload. As leaders or aspiring leaders\, questions are emerging on how we support ourselves and others as leaders or how to become leaders\, during current precarious times. Furthermore\, leadership covers various elements from managers and performance management\, leading or supporting through change\, leading modules\, programmes\, learning and teaching or wider pedagogic themes such as employability or generative AI. What is more\, there is limited literature on leadership in geography in higher education. This panel discussion will discuss how we can creatively support ourselves and others through our leadership aspirations. Topics will\, but not be restricted to: \n\n\n\n\nControl vs empowerment of both leaders and those they work with\n\n\n\nCreating a pathway to leadership\n\n\n\nCreative empowerment to deal with the short-term crisis whilst still retaining the long-term goals\n\n\n\nUsing creativity to overcome obsessions with output and financial driven performance
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-pathways-to-leadership-geography-he/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250828T144000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250828T162000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20250715T150720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T081647Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging and Innovative Pedagogies in Geography Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nPanel: \n\n\n\n\nConvenor: Harry West\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\nConvenor: Alan Marvell\, University of Gloucestershire\n\n\n\nConvenor: Jennifer Hill\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nThe evolving landscape of geography higher education demands pedagogical innovation that is responsive to the diverse needs of students and the challenges of the 21st century. This session invites paper contributions that explore emerging and transformative approaches to teaching\, learning\, and assessment\, offering a platform to share ideas and discuss emerging and innovative HE pedagogies. \n\n\n\nCentral to the discussion is the integration of inclusive and equitable teaching practices that address the diverse needs of students. By rethinking traditional teaching and learning approaches and exploring alternative assessment models\, educators are fostering accessible and engaging learning experiences. These practices are further enhanced by advances in technology\, including the use of generative AI. Tools such as AI-driven writing aids\, data analysis platforms\, and virtual simulations are being leveraged to personalise learning\, create innovative assessment opportunities\, and prepare students for a digitally-literate world\, while also prompting critical discussions about ethics and academic integrity. \n\n\n\nThe session also explores how pedagogies adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic\, such as digital and hybrid teaching\, have evolved into powerful tools for the post-pandemic era. Innovative uses of digital platforms and immersive technologies\, such as GIS\, augmented reality\, and online collaborative tools\, are changing how students interact with geographical content and their peers and tutors. This transition to flexible and technology-rich learning environments is complemented by a renewed focus on authentic and sustainable fieldwork. By emphasising local contexts\, virtual field experiences\, and ethical community engagement\, educators are balancing pedagogical rigor with social\, environmental and financial responsibility. \n\n\n\nRecognising the holistic nature of education\, this session also considers the affective dimensions of learning. Emotionally supportive pedagogies are emerging as crucial tools in fostering student and staff wellbeing\, resilience\, and motivation. Equally transformative are student-staff partnerships\, where students are empowered as co-creators in curriculum design\, assessment practices\, and research\, ensuring that educational practices remain inclusive\, relevant\, and reflective of diverse perspectives. \n\n\n\nBy integrating these themes\, the session aims to provide a collaborative space for sharing innovative practices that advance the discipline of geography\, preparing students to navigate and address the complex challenges of a changing world.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-innovative-pedagogies/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250828T111000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250828T125000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20250715T150016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T081710Z
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SUMMARY:The Future of Fieldwork (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nPanel: \n\n\n\n\nConvenor: Joanna Southworth\, University of Birmingham\n\n\n\nConvenor: Lesley Batty\, University of Birmingham\n\n\n\nConvenor: Surindar Dhesi\, University of Birmingham\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nFieldwork is an integral part of Geography as a discipline\, whether as human or physical geographer\, a student or researcher. This session will explore the challenges that we face in conducting fieldwork in a rapidly changing financial\, political\, social and technological world. Employability is one important and increasingly more crucial area that fieldwork feeds into. The practical side of ‘being a Geographer’ can enable students to gain transferable skills not accessible in the classroom\, and there is a case to be made for fieldwork in these terms. However\, as sustainability rightly makes it way up the agenda of many Universities\, the need and necessity for overseas fieldwork\, in particular undergraduate trips abroad\, is a question that is worthy of serious consideration. This is coupled with concerns of rising financial pressures for both students and universities\, access to suitable sites\, and safety concerns associated with a number of countries. The advent of technology means that both quantitative and qualitative research could in some part take place remotely (big data\, remote sensing or utilising Zoom or Teams for interviews/focus groups). Similarly\, technology has enabled virtual fieldwork on the physical side to be a viable alternative. Yet in a discipline that stresses the importance of place\, what is lost by not conducting research in situ? There are also questions of a more ethical nature regarding helicopter science and perhaps a way forward might be greater collaboration with local researchers who could perform the data collection. The advent of AI opens up even more possibilities and also threats to how we currently conceive fieldwork\, the student or researchers role in it and the need for it to happen ‘in place’. This session will explore these questions as well as considering creative ways in which we can take fieldwork forward into the future.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-future-of-fieldwork/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250828T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250828T104000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20250715T145616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T081725Z
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SUMMARY:What Can We Creatively Learn Here\, That We Can Learn Nowhere Else? (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nPanel: \n\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Panel Chair: Smriti Safaya\, Stockholm Environment Institute – York\, University of York\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Panel Chair: Suzie Eden\, University of York\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nOur students have taught us that the most impressionable learning experiences in Geography are seen\, heard and felt. With more than 25 years teaching geography in U.K. and Hong Kong schools across a range of national and international curricula\, we\, Dr. Smriti Safaya and Suzie Eden will lead conference attendees on a multi-sensory geography-forward outdoor workshop to stimulate thinking about using the creative arts\, smartphone and AI technologies\, and interdisciplinary place-based approaches for teaching and researching socio-environmental topics. \n\n\n\nThis 3-phase workshop includes: (i) sharing research findings and implications about impactful experiential learning on youth agency and youth participatory action research; (ii) putting pedagogy into practice\, with a series of outdoor activities ranging from soundscaping\, doing biodiversity citizen science and nature journaling; (iii) facilitating a reflective discussion where workshop attendees ideate ways to tailor the workshop ideas and methods to suit their educational and research contexts. This workshop provides an overview of several creative fieldwork methods that can be used to inform geographical enquiry across a range of topics in KS2 to KS5\, and in the International Baccalaureate Middle Years and Diploma Programmes’ humanities\, geography\, biology\, environmental science and societies\, and global politics courses. We provide a bespoke workshop guide for each attendee to write in\, and it would be beneficial for attendees to bring their smartphones and pencils/pens to fully enjoy the range of activities. The University of Birmingham campus’ green areas make for ideal spaces for the outdoor portion of the workshop. Along the workshop phases\, attendees will gain interdisciplinary insights from behaviour psychology\, citizenship education and participatory action research which can be applied to champion equitable youth and teacher voices in geography teaching\, research and action. \n\n\n\nCome rain or shine\, we will be exploring wildly about creative enquiry in Geography. As ‘they’ say\, there is no such thing as bad weather\, just bad gear!
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-creative-learning/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250827T144000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250827T162000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20250715T144549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T081738Z
UID:2507-1756305600-1756311600@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Food Education\, Creative Practice and Youth’s Everyday Geographies of Food (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nPanel: \n\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Panel Chair: Sara Brouwer\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\nConvenor: Irene Marchiani\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\nConvenor: Tine Beneker\, Utrecht university\n\n\n\nConvenor: Ajay Bailey\, Utrecht university\n\n\n\nConvenor: Harrison Awuh\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nFrom various national educational programmes accompanying the EU’s Fruit and Vegetables Scheme to government-supported programmes such as the Healthy Schools Approach (De Gezonde School) in The Netherlands\, the Italian School & Food Programme (Scuola&Cibo)\, and the ‘Food – a fact of life’ programme in the UK\, the food education landscape is a patchwork. \n\n\n\nWhile different in each country\, these formal food pedagogies – educational ideologies and practices focused on growing\, acquiring\, shopping\, cooking\, eating and disposing of food (Flowers & Swan 2015) – share the common goal of educating young people about healthy and sustainable food choices and skills. Studies in European contexts have mainly measured knowledge retention and uptake of healthy eating habits (Battjes-Fries et al. 2017)\, while geographers in Anglo-Saxon settings have highlighted a scalar politics around how social anxieties about food and diet (cooking skills\, childhood obesity) in educational programmes place responsibility on the individual scale of the young body\, overlooking structural processes such as income and spatial inequalities that shape food access (Jackson 2016). Geographers have\, furthermore\, critiqued food education programmes for reducing food to its nutritional components\, emphasising students’ deficits over capabilities\, and for producing normative moral binaries distinguishing good/bad food\, healthy/unhealthy or good/bad parents and children\, often excluding diverse cultural and socio-economic foodways (Maher et al 2020; Rawlins 2009). \n\n\n\nCreative methods and practice have the potential to bridge the gap between food education and young people’s diverse and everyday geographies of food. This session includes contributions that explore: \n\n\n\n\nHow creativity in formal or informal education can reimagine food education;\n\n\n\nHow participatory methods (e.g. photo elicitation\, arts-based methods\, games such as Serious Play but also gardening\, cooking\, recipes) can help integrate youth’s voices and their geographies of food in food education or to understand the role and responsibilities of teachers\, administrators\, parents;\n\n\n\nHow creative practice (art\, photography\, theatre\, poetry) can challenge the predominant material lens in food education\, shift students from passive to active agents in learning about food or facilitate discussions around the relational and affective nature of food and structural political and economic factors influencing how families relate to food.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-food-education-food-geographies/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250827T111000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250827T125000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20250714T152601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T081745Z
UID:2503-1756293000-1756299000@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Making the Case for Geography in Our Classrooms: Lightning Lessons for Transformative Learning (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 \n\n\n\nPanel: \n\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Discussant\, Panel Chair: Kenneth Foote\, University of Connecticut\, \n\n\n\nConvenor\, Discussant: Alan Marvell\, University of Gloucestershire\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Discussant: Sonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\nConvenor\, Discussant: Harry West\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\nDiscussant: Gavin Heath\, University of KwaZulu-Natal\n\n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nThis panel discussion will focus on how geography education can address today’s critical challenges\, including climate change and social inequities. We invite participants to share persuasive pedagogical materials\, practices\, and lessons that demonstrate geography’s value in understanding and responding to local\, regional\, national\, and global issues. We are particularly interested in examples that emphasise geography’s role in supporting progressive\, inclusive civic education that prepares students to be active\, participatory\, and empowered citizens. \n\n\n\nThis session will showcase geography’s transformative potential in the classroom\, equipping students to make empathetic and critical spatial decisions regarding community and global issues. Transformative learning emphasises social and environmental justice\, highlights the lived experiences and well-being of underrepresented groups\, and transforms classrooms into welcoming\, inclusive spaces. \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with the International Network for Learning and Teaching in Geography in Higher Education (INLT)\, this panel discussion aligns with similar initiatives from the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the European Association of Geographers (EUGEO). We aim to share teaching strategies that reflect what Sarah Bednarz describes as “geography’s secret powers to save the world\,” explore “why geography matters\,” as noted by Harm de Blij and Alec Murphy\, and address geography’s “wicked” problems\, as discussed by David Simm\, Alan Marvell\, and Alexia Mellor. \n\n\n\nJoin us for this engaging debate and share your experiences in the classroom. We welcome discussions on classroom ideas\, materials\, or strategies that invigorate geography education and inspire others. This workshop-style panel allows contributors to pitch and discuss ideas at any stage of development.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/aic2025-geog-in-classrooms/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250826T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250829T190000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20250311T140101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T085021Z
UID:2489-1756195200-1756494000@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute for British Geographers) Annual International Conference will be held at the University of Birmingham and online\, from Tuesday 26 August to Friday 29 August 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Geography Education Research Group will be hosting a number of sessions:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 27 August\n\n\n\n11.10-12.50: Making the Case for Geography in Our Classrooms: Lightning Lessons for Transformative Learning \n\n\n\n\nKenneth Foote\, University of Connecticut\, \n\n\n\nAlan Marvell\, University of Gloucestershire\n\n\n\nSonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\nGavin Heath\, University of KwaZulu-Natal\n\n\n\nHarry West\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\n\n14.40-16.20: Food Education\, Creative Practice and Youth’s Everyday Geographies of Food \n\n\n\n\nSara Brouwer\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\nIrene Marchiani\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\nTine Beneker\, Utrecht university\n\n\n\nAjay Bailey\, Utrecht university\n\n\n\nHarrison Awuh\, Utrecht University\n\n\n\n[Co-sponsored with the Food Geographies Research Group]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday 28 August\n\n\n\n9.00-10.40: What Can We Creatively Learn Here\, That We Can Learn Nowhere Else? \n\n\n\n\nSmriti Safaya\, Stockholm Environment Institute – York\, University of York\n\n\n\nSuzie Eden\, University of York\n\n\n\n\n11.10-12.50: The Future of Fieldwork \n\n\n\n\nJoanna Southworth\, University of Birmingham\n\n\n\nLesley Batty\, University of Birmingham\n\n\n\nSurindar Dhesi\, University of Birmingham\n\n\n\n\n14.40-16.20: Emerging and Innovative Pedagogies in Geography Higher Education \n\n\n\n\nHarry West\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\nAlan Marvell\, University of Gloucestershire\n\n\n\nJennifer Hill\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\n\n16.50-18.30: Creating pathways to leadership in Geography HE (Panel discussion) \n\n\n\n\nSonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\nVicky Johnson\, The Open University\n\n\n\nMatt Finn\, University of Exeter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday 29 August\n\n\n\n9.00-10.40: 2025 Journal of Geography in Higher Education Annual Lecture – Jennifer Hill\, UWE\, Bristol \n\n\n\nOrganised by:  \n\n\n\n\nDavid Higgitt\, University of Lancaster\n\n\n\nDerek France\, University of Chester\n\n\n\nSonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\n\n11.10-12.50: Writing successfully for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education \n\n\n\n\nDerek France\, University of Chester\n\n\n\nSonja Rewhorn\, The Open University\n\n\n\nAlan Marvell\, University of Gloucestershire\n\n\n\nHarry West\, UWE\, Bristol\n\n\n\nDavid Higgitt\, University of Lancaster\n\n\n\n\n14.40-16.20: Crǝativethnographies (1) Exploring new ways to co-produce young people`s geographies using arts\, fiction and so-much-more-than-that \n\n\n\n\nItta Bauer\, University of Zurich\n\n\n\n[Co-sponsored with the Geographies of Children\, Youth and Families Research Group]\n\n\n\n\n16.50-18.30: Crǝativethnographies (2) Exploring new ways to co-produce young people`s geographies using arts\, fiction and so-much-more-than-that \n\n\n\n\nItta Bauer\, University of Zurich\n\n\n\n[Co-sponsored with the Geographies of Children\, Youth and Families Research Group]
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/rgs-ibg-annual-international-conference-2025/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2025
ORGANIZER;CN="RBG-IBG":MAILTO:events@rgs.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250819T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250819T110000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20250717T085422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T085604Z
UID:2557-1755597600-1755601200@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting 2025 (AGM 2025)
DESCRIPTION:The Geography & Education Research Group AGM will be held online\, 10-11am Tuesday 19th August 2025.Registration link here
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/agm2025/
CATEGORIES:AGM,All,GeogEd Research Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241129T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241129T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20241126T111205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T143836Z
UID:2447-1732885200-1732888800@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:GeogEd session on Advance HE Fellowship
DESCRIPTION:Guest speakers Dr Annie Hughes and Dr John Canning\, Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre\, Kingston University \n\n\n\nAdvance HE fellowships are increasingly being sought by employers as a condition of appointment or probation. This session supports our fellow geographers to understand the value of gaining a fellowship and provides some practical advice on how you can use the process of completing your fellowship to develop your learning\, teaching\, assessment and student support practice through pedagogic research\, reflection and personal development. \n\n\n\nThe session will comprise of a presentation followed by time for discussion and a chance to ask questions about the Advance HE Fellowship scheme. \n\n\n\nIf you are working towards Advance HE Fellowship (or are interested in doing so) then this session is for you.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/geoged-session-on-advance-he-fellowship/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240320T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240320T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20240124T101156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240124T101806Z
UID:2351-1710939600-1710943200@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Tackling maths anxiety (for physical and social scientists)
DESCRIPTION:Info to come
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/tackling-maths-anxiety-for-physical-and-social-scientists/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,GeogEd TeaS
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://geogedrg.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pexels-cottonbro-studio-4769486-scaled.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240221T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240221T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20240124T100257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T162221Z
UID:2347-1708520400-1708524000@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Climate action and hopefulness in teaching
DESCRIPTION:During this session we will hear from three speakers about their work around climate education\, with a focus on climate action and hopefulness in teaching.  \n\n\n\n\nBee Gan\, Sheffield Hallam University –  ‘The Climate Emergency: a collaborative online international learning project’\n\n\n\nDr Ankit Kumar\, University of Sheffield –  ‘Contingencies of hopelessness and hope in a radical politics of climate justice’   \n\n\n\nProf Larissa Naylor\, University of Glasgow – ‘Creating windows of opportunity to become ‘Sea Level Wise”\n\n\n\n\nThere will be three presentations and then time for Q and A / discussion. \n\n\n\nPlease let us know if you would like to join and we will pass on the Zoom link.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/climate-action-and-hopefulness-in-teaching/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,GeogEd TeaS
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://geogedrg.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pexels-markus-spiske-2990644-scaled.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231115T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20230904T124116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230904T124117Z
UID:2191-1700053200-1700056800@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Work-based learning and employability in geography and related programmes
DESCRIPTION:This session will be co-delivered by Dr Helen King (Northumbria University) and Dr Rebecca Jones (Bangor University) and is focused on helping colleagues develop and deliver work-based learning and employability initiatives for students on geography and related programmes. There will be opportunities for a Q and A following talks from our guest contributors. \n\n\n\nFor more information and to book\, please head to https://www.rgs.org/events/autumn-2023/work-based-learning-and-employability-(1)/
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/work-based-learning-and-employability-in-geography-and-related-programmes/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,GeogEd TeaS
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T163000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192543
CREATED:20230904T123741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230904T130957Z
UID:2187-1698316200-1698337800@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:New to teaching geography at university (TeaS)
DESCRIPTION:Join our one-day workshop for new geography lecturers\, teaching-fellows\, and other early career academics teaching in geography departments post-PhD. \n\n\n\nOrganised in conjunction with the Society’s Geography and Education Research Group\, this will feature interactive sessions led by experienced educators\, covering innovative teaching methods\, classroom management\, and student engagement. Enjoy a networking lunch to connect with peers and build a supportive community. Refine your instructional skills\, gain fresh perspectives\, and leave with practical takeaways. Don’t miss this opportunity to become a more confident geography educator. \n\n\n\nFor more details and to book\, please visit https://www.rgs.org/events/autumn-2023/new-to-teaching-geography-at-university/
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/new-to-teaching-geography-at-university-teas/
LOCATION:Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)\, 1 Kensington Gore\, London\, London\, SW7 2AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,GeogEd TeaS
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T163000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20231012T085359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T085716Z
UID:2220-1697036400-1697041800@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Mentoring for Teaching and Scholarship Career Development
DESCRIPTION:The Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd) will be delivering a session for colleagues who mentor others or who would like to participate in mentoring (as either a mentor or mentee) focussing on teaching and scholarship career development. The session will: \n\n\n\n\nprovide advice and guidance from those with mentoring experience (from mentor and mentee perspectives)\,\n\n\n\ninclude on-the-spot mentoring to help participants reflect on their current needs and develop just one actionable point to kick start their progression\, and\n\n\n\nreview the needs of colleagues to help plan and progress an informal teaching and scholarship mentoring network within the TeaS community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event has already taken place!\n\n\n\nIf you are interested in being part of a GeogEd peer-mentoring network for teaching and scholarship career development (as a mentor / mentee / both) please sign up via this brief form. \n\n\n\nPDF slides of the event can be accessed below:
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/mentoring-for-teaching-and-scholarship-career-development/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,GeogEd TeaS
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230904T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230904T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20230629T111352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T144402Z
UID:2102-1693832400-1693836000@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:GeogEd AGM
DESCRIPTION:We have scheduled our Annual General Meeting (AGM) for Monday 4th September 2023 for all GeogEd members.  \n\n\n\nThe event will take place online (via Zoom). A registration link has been sent out to all members on 29th June 2023. Please contact Harry.West@uwe.ac.uk should you have any issues.
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/geoged-agm/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230901T162000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230901T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20230224T145000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T114934Z
UID:2087-1693585200-1693591200@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Exploring the complexities of student transitions in to and through geography degree programmes
DESCRIPTION:Convenors: Sonja Rewhorn (The Open University; sonja.rewhorn@open.ac.uk) Vicky Johnson (The Open University; vicky.johnson@open.ac.uk) \n\n\n\nWe know student transitions into and through university can be complex\, both academically and socially. It is widely accepted that transition programmes into university support student retention in geography.  It is also documented that summer/between levels bridging programmes supports student retention (Habley et al.\, 2004).  Watson Swail in 2014 highlighted that only having transition into the equivalent of first year undergraduate of higher education was meaningless as students need support moving through university levels.  With Othman Aljohani (2016) noting that students may withdraw going into their final year due to ‘students’ academic abilities and their level of motivation and educational commitment were the most frequently reported reasons for withdrawal’ (p. 44).  Pauline Kneale (2015) reminds us that if we support the students’ academic well-being this goes towards supporting their mental well-being\, which supports retention.  We are also aware that family\, caring\, health and work commitments can impact students moving into final year undergraduate. This session seeks to invite discussion about the transition into and through university for the progression of geography students.  Papers are welcome on any aspect of transition. \n\n\n\nYou can find the full list of speakers\, titles and abstracts for this event at https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule/d899f71a-8325-4c1f-b030-bebad7246398 \n\n\n\nFor the full list of GeogEd RGS Annual International conference listings\, please visit https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule?trackIds=bb7c70fb-f09d-42d8-b13e-4de4ccc7ea3c&date=2023-08-30
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/complexities-of-student-transitions/
LOCATION:RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023\, RGS & Imperial College\, South Kensington\, London\, SW7 2AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2023
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230901T111000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230901T125000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20230629T114717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T122408Z
UID:2128-1693566600-1693572600@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Can we create a flourishing higher education environment? (2)
DESCRIPTION:Convenors: Jennifer Hill (University of Gloucestershire) and Harry West (UWE Bristol) \n\n\n\nIt is widely recognised that higher education environments across the globe are becoming increasingly marketised. This has placed great pressure on students and staff within the sector. A survey carried out by the UK National Union of Students in 2020 revealed that just over half of students (52%) had worse mental health than before the Covid-19 pandemic and they appeared to be more anxious than the general population (NUS 2020). In a Chinese study\, 25% of surveyed students experienced anxiety linked to worries about academic delays\, the economic effects of the pandemic\, and the impact on daily life (Cao et al. 2020). Equally\, recent surveys of higher education staff have highlighted significant wellbeing and mental health challenges. In the UK\, one study found that 53% of academic and academic-related staff reported probable depression (Wray and Kinman 2021) and in another\, conducted during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic\, 47% of academic and professional services staff described their mental health as poor (Dougall et al. 2021). \n\n\n\nIn this session we wish to debate if and how we might create higher education spaces\, systems\, processes\, curricula and pedagogies that can support the flourishing of students and staff within and across higher education institutions (Vailes 2022). \n\n\n\nContributions might explore the themes below\, or consider additional areas of interest. Papers can present results of empirical research or be more reflective in nature. \n\n\n\n\nHow might university strategies\, policies and systems better reflect student and staff wellbeing challenges?\n\n\n\nHow might we recognise and enhance student and staff wellbeing in our curriculum planning\, pedagogic practices and assessment processes?\n\n\n\nHow can we build a sense of belonging for a diversity of students in higher education to support positive wellbeing and flourishing?\n\n\n\nCan further studies into pedagogies of courage\, care\, compassion\, slowness and mattering offer us hope for securing more positive mental wellbeing in higher education?\n\n\n\nCan hybrid ways of working and learning be used to promote positive wellbeing?\n\n\n\nHow might students and staff work collaboratively to promote positive wellbeing?\n\n\n\nHow can educational developers support staff to embed wellbeing in their curriculum delivery and pedagogic practices?\n\n\n\nWhat can we do to generate open discussion and reflection on the wellbeing challenges experienced by staff and students?\n\n\n\nHow can we implement a systemic approach to change within higher education institutions so students can flourish and staff can reduce feelings of pedagogic frailty?\n\n\n\n\nNote: this is the second of a 2-part in-person session. Details for the second part can be found here. \n\n\n\nYou can find the full list of speakers\, titles and abstracts for this event at https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule/718af918-4896-4a1b-af44-5ea79263377f \n\n\n\nFor the full list of GeogEd RGS Annual International conference listings\, please visit https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule?trackIds=bb7c70fb-f09d-42d8-b13e-4de4ccc7ea3c&date=2023-08-30
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/flourishing-higher-education-wellbeing-environment-2/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2023
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230901T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230901T104000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20230202T194056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T122702Z
UID:2066-1693558800-1693564800@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Can we create a flourishing higher education environment? (1)
DESCRIPTION:Convenors: Jennifer Hill (University of Gloucestershire) and Harry West (UWE Bristol) \n\n\n\nIt is widely recognised that higher education environments across the globe are becoming increasingly marketised. This has placed great pressure on students and staff within the sector. A survey carried out by the UK National Union of Students in 2020 revealed that just over half of students (52%) had worse mental health than before the Covid-19 pandemic and they appeared to be more anxious than the general population (NUS 2020). In a Chinese study\, 25% of surveyed students experienced anxiety linked to worries about academic delays\, the economic effects of the pandemic\, and the impact on daily life (Cao et al. 2020). Equally\, recent surveys of higher education staff have highlighted significant wellbeing and mental health challenges. In the UK\, one study found that 53% of academic and academic-related staff reported probable depression (Wray and Kinman 2021) and in another\, conducted during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic\, 47% of academic and professional services staff described their mental health as poor (Dougall et al. 2021). \n\n\n\nIn this session we wish to debate if and how we might create higher education spaces\, systems\, processes\, curricula and pedagogies that can support the flourishing of students and staff within and across higher education institutions (Vailes 2022). \n\n\n\nContributions might explore the themes below\, or consider additional areas of interest. Papers can present results of empirical research or be more reflective in nature. \n\n\n\n\nHow might university strategies\, policies and systems better reflect student and staff wellbeing challenges?\n\n\n\nHow might we recognise and enhance student and staff wellbeing in our curriculum planning\, pedagogic practices and assessment processes?\n\n\n\nHow can we build a sense of belonging for a diversity of students in higher education to support positive wellbeing and flourishing?\n\n\n\nCan further studies into pedagogies of courage\, care\, compassion\, slowness and mattering offer us hope for securing more positive mental wellbeing in higher education?\n\n\n\nCan hybrid ways of working and learning be used to promote positive wellbeing?\n\n\n\nHow might students and staff work collaboratively to promote positive wellbeing?\n\n\n\nHow can educational developers support staff to embed wellbeing in their curriculum delivery and pedagogic practices?\n\n\n\nWhat can we do to generate open discussion and reflection on the wellbeing challenges experienced by staff and students?\n\n\n\nHow can we implement a systemic approach to change within higher education institutions so students can flourish and staff can reduce feelings of pedagogic frailty?\n\n\n\n\nNote: this is the first of a 2-part in-person session. Details for the second part can be found here. \n\n\n\nYou can find the full list of speakers\, titles and abstracts for this event at https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule/fdfaf948-857a-4825-8f05-54af329270d3 \n\n\n\nFor the full list of GeogEd RGS Annual International conference listings\, please visit https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule?trackIds=bb7c70fb-f09d-42d8-b13e-4de4ccc7ea3c&date=2023-08-30
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/flourishing-higher-education-wellbeing-environment/
LOCATION:RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023\, RGS & Imperial College\, South Kensington\, London\, SW7 2AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2023
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T162000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20230629T121245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T123011Z
UID:2160-1693498800-1693504800@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:JGHE lecture: Geomorphology to Pedagogy: in memoriam of Martin J Haigh
DESCRIPTION:Please see https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule/a3dabab1-850a-4089-b37e-f5fcceb74f04 for the full list of speakers\, titles and abstracts for the event. \n \nFor the full list of GeogEd RGS Annual International conference listings\,please visit https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule?trackIds=bb7c70fb-f09d-42d8-b13e-4de4ccc7ea3c&date=2023-08-30
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/jghe-lecture-geomorphology-to-pedagogy-in-memoriam-of-martin-j-haigh/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2023
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T162000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20230629T115801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T122427Z
UID:2142-1693498800-1693504800@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Mapping feminist approaches to climate change education (2)
DESCRIPTION:Please see https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule/99387b5f-711a-460f-803b-1b304532a7b0 for the full list of speakers\, titles and abstracts for the event. \nNote: This is the second of a 2-part session. Details for the first part can be found here. \n \nFor the full list of GeogEd RGS Annual International conference listings\,please visit https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule?trackIds=bb7c70fb-f09d-42d8-b13e-4de4ccc7ea3c&date=2023-08-30
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/mapping-feminist-approaches-to-climate-change-education-2/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2023
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T141000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T155000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20230629T120026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T122438Z
UID:2148-1693491000-1693497000@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Writing successfully for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Please see https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule/5b1c12be-0266-40bb-a2ed-2930dc77a7f1 for the full list of speakers\, titles and abstracts for the event. \n \nFor the full list of GeogEd RGS Annual International conference listings\,please visit https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule?trackIds=bb7c70fb-f09d-42d8-b13e-4de4ccc7ea3c&date=2023-08-30
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/writing-successfully-for-the-journal-of-geography-in-higher-education-2/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2023
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T111000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T125000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20230202T191318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T122843Z
UID:2044-1693480200-1693486200@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Climate changed geographies and education for a better tomorrow?: Possibilities\, politics and perspectives (2)
DESCRIPTION:Convenors: Dr Lauren Hammond\, Lecturer in Teacher education (University of Edinburgh) Nicola Walshe\, Professor of Education and Pro-Director (IOE\, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society) Grace Healy\, Honorary Research Fellow (University of Oxford) and Education Director (Secondary) (David Ross Education Trust)\, Dr Victor Salinas-Silva (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso\, Chile) \n\n\n\nThis session seeks to invite discussion about the role\, responsibilities and realities of education in a climate-changed world. The session aims to facilitate research sharing and knowledge exchange between colleagues interested in actively considering the possibilities and practicalities of education for a better tomorrow in\, and through\, schools\, universities or other education spaces. From the decisions educators make in the classroom or out in the field\, to what policy makers choose to include (or not) in national curricula and guidelines\, education is inherently political and often contested. The multi-scalar and intersecting decisions made shape the spaces that children and (young) people and those who work with\, and for\, them occupy\, and their experiences of education. Decisions can lead to the (re)production of systems of ‘unjust hierarchy and dominator culture’ (hooks\, 2003: p. 86)\, or the active challenging of them through relationships\, curriculum and pedagogy. Young people are currently navigating complex narratives about\, and experiences of\, environmental in/justices and futures in their everyday lives (Rousell and Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles\, 2022; Walshe and Sund\, 2022). The ‘gap’ between school and university geography and the politics that surrounds education\, influences educators’ agency and the construction and representation of geography in curricula and educational resources. Here\, the context of a climate-changed world makes conversations about the possibilities\, politics and perceptions of education and education spaces more urgent. This session offers the opportunity to consider geography both as lens through which to examine educational spaces\, processes and institutions in a climate-changed world\, and a subject and academic discipline (young) people engage with through education to explore the world in all of its complexity. \n\n\n\nNote: this is the second of a 2-part in-person session. Details for the first part can be found here. \n\n\n\nYou can find the full list of speakers\, titles and abstracts for this event at https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule/153d2b5d-100e-48c1-9c15-955b9d53b69c \n\n\n\nFor the full list of GeogEd RGS Annual International conference listings\, please visit https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule?trackIds=bb7c70fb-f09d-42d8-b13e-4de4ccc7ea3c&date=2023-08-30
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/climate-changed-geographies-and-education-2/
LOCATION:RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023\, RGS & Imperial College\, South Kensington\, London\, SW7 2AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2023
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T104000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20230629T113759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T122815Z
UID:2116-1693472400-1693478400@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Climate changed geographies and education for a better tomorrow?: Possibilities\, politics and perspectives (1)
DESCRIPTION:Convenors: Dr Lauren Hammond\, Lecturer in Teacher education (University of Edinburgh) Nicola Walshe\, Professor of Education and Pro-Director (IOE\, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society) Grace Healy\, Honorary Research Fellow (University of Oxford) and Education Director (Secondary) (David Ross Education Trust)\, Dr Victor Salinas-Silva (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso\, Chile) \n\n\n\nThis session seeks to invite discussion about the role\, responsibilities and realities of education in a climate-changed world. The session aims to facilitate research sharing and knowledge exchange between colleagues interested in actively considering the possibilities and practicalities of education for a better tomorrow in\, and through\, schools\, universities or other education spaces. From the decisions educators make in the classroom or out in the field\, to what policy makers choose to include (or not) in national curricula and guidelines\, education is inherently political and often contested. The multi-scalar and intersecting decisions made shape the spaces that children and (young) people and those who work with\, and for\, them occupy\, and their experiences of education. Decisions can lead to the (re)production of systems of ‘unjust hierarchy and dominator culture’ (hooks\, 2003: p. 86)\, or the active challenging of them through relationships\, curriculum and pedagogy. Young people are currently navigating complex narratives about\, and experiences of\, environmental in/justices and futures in their everyday lives (Rousell and Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles\, 2022; Walshe and Sund\, 2022). The ‘gap’ between school and university geography and the politics that surrounds education\, influences educators’ agency and the construction and representation of geography in curricula and educational resources. Here\, the context of a climate-changed world makes conversations about the possibilities\, politics and perceptions of education and education spaces more urgent. This session offers the opportunity to consider geography both as lens through which to examine educational spaces\, processes and institutions in a climate-changed world\, and a subject and academic discipline (young) people engage with through education to explore the world in all of its complexity. \n\n\n\nNote: this is the first of a 2-part in-person session. Details of the second part can be found here. \n\n\n\nYou can find the full list of speakers\, titles and abstracts for this event at https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule/5457e1e7-ac01-4fcc-96a6-2bb19733cb66 \n\n\n\nFor the full list of GeogEd RGS Annual International conference listings\, please visit https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule?trackIds=bb7c70fb-f09d-42d8-b13e-4de4ccc7ea3c&date=2023-08-30
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/climate-changed-geographies-and-education/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2023
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T001000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230831T155000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20230629T115157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T122449Z
UID:2133-1693440600-1693497000@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Mapping feminist approaches to climate change education (1)
DESCRIPTION:Please see https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule/4c5f8922-9da1-4881-9a0f-327da7db9bae for the full list of speakers\, titles and abstracts for the event. \nNote: This is the first of a 2-part session. Details for the second part can be found here. \n \nFor the full list of GeogEd RGS Annual International conference listings\,please visit https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule?trackIds=bb7c70fb-f09d-42d8-b13e-4de4ccc7ea3c&date=2023-08-30
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/mapping-feminist-approaches-to-climate-change-education/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2023
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230830T162000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230830T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T192544
CREATED:20230629T121845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230629T122459Z
UID:2170-1693412400-1693418400@geogedrg.org
SUMMARY:Climate challenged Latin America: Reflections on pedagogies of freedom (2)
DESCRIPTION:Please see https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule/2a07510c-c3cf-4bf5-977e-489f99c87c4a for the full list of speakers\, titles and abstracts for the event. \nNote: This is the second of a 2-part session. Details for the first part can be found here. \n \nFor the full list of GeogEd RGS Annual International conference listings\,please visit https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/schedule?trackIds=bb7c70fb-f09d-42d8-b13e-4de4ccc7ea3c&date=2023-08-30
URL:https://geogedrg.org/event/climate-challenged-latin-america-reflections-on-pedagogies-of-freedom-2/
CATEGORIES:All,GeogEd Research Group,RGS-IBG AIC,RGS-IBG AIC 2023
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