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New to teaching geography at university (TeaS)

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) 1 Kensington Gore, London, London, United Kingdom

Join our one-day workshop for new geography lecturers, teaching-fellows, and other early career academics teaching in geography departments post-PhD. Organised 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...

£25

Work-based learning and employability in geography and related programmes

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. For more...

Free

Climate action and hopefulness in teaching

Online

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.  There will be three presentations and then time for Q and A / discussion. Please let us know if you would like to join and we will pass on the...

Free

GeogEd session on Advance HE Fellowship

Guest speakers Dr Annie Hughes and Dr John Canning, Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre, Kingston University Advance 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...

Free

Making the Case for Geography in Our Classrooms: Lightning Lessons for Transformative Learning (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)

University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom

This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 Panel: Description: This 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,...

Food Education, Creative Practice and Youth’s Everyday Geographies of Food (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)

University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom

This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 Panel: Description: From 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’...

What Can We Creatively Learn Here, That We Can Learn Nowhere Else? (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)

University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom

This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 Panel: Description: Our 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...

The Future of Fieldwork (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)

University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom

This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 Panel: Description: Fieldwork 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....

Emerging and Innovative Pedagogies in Geography Higher Education

University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom

This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 Panel: Description: The 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,...

Creating pathways to leadership in Geography HE – Panel discussion (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025)

University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom

This event is part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 Panel: Description: The 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...