GeogEd/RGS Teaching and Scholarship (TeaS) Meets

A place for meeting, sharing, collating, and supporting teaching and scholarship in HE

The idea behind GeogEd TeaS is to provide an informal but regular meeting place for anyone at any stage of their career. Primarily focused on teaching and scholarship within the geography and related disciplines, this community group aims to provide support, advice, encouragement, and resources for educationalists within higher ed.

With more institutions focusing on teaching and scholarship (or teaching and education) career pathways, we hope to create an inclusive and supportive network of colleagues that speaks to the challenges and opportunities such a career path provides. Over the coming academic year, we invite you to join us in this forum for discussion and TeaS advocacy.

The structure will be monthly, online meetings held on the third Wednesday of each month, between 2 and 3pm, starting in October and running until May each year. We plan meet ups around community needs, as well as hosting guest contributors to discuss or advise upon key aspects of TeaS such as, promotion, building a national profile, pedagogic research, etc.

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  • New to teaching geography at university (TeaS)

    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,…

    October 26 @ 10:30 am – 4:30 pm

  • 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…

    November 15 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

  • Promotion Pathways

    Prof. Jenny Hill shares her experience of achieving promotion on the teaching and scholarship pathway.

    November 17, 2021 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  • Scholarship and me

    Dr Hannah Mather, Dr Matt Finn, and Dr Lynda Yorke share their scholarly activities and thoughts on scholarship.

    December 15, 2021 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  • Professional Recognition

    Prof. Nicola Thomas (PFHEA) and Dr. Naomi Holmes (SFHEA) share their journeys on gaining their Principle and Senior Fellowships respectively.

    January 19, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  •  Building Collaborative Clusters

    Discussing key themes of interest to the community, including Professional Recognition (HEA Fellowships), Mentoring, Promotion on the T&L Pathway, etc.

    February 16, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  • TeaS and Coffee drop-in @ RGS-IBG Annual Conference (1/2)

    Drop-in and chat with us at the RGS Annual International Conference 2022! Details to follow sooner to the conference

    August 30, 2022 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am

  • TeaS and Coffee drop-in @ RGS-IBG Annual Conference (2/2)

    Drop-in and chat with us at the RGS Annual International Conference 2022! Details to follow nearer to the conference.

    September 1, 2022 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • GeogEd TeaS: New Year, New Outlooks

    An informal welcome at the start of the new academic year. A chance to chat with colleagues and discuss plans and ideas you have for the coming year.

    October 19, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  • GeogEd TeaS: End of Year Catch-up

    In the final TeaS forum of 2022 we invite you to take a well-earned short break from marking, grab a hot drink and mince pie (or similar) and come along…

    December 14, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  • A distinctive discipline? Exploring the Geography benchmarks

    Our first TeaS session of the New Year is going to be a participatory discussion, focused on exploring and engaging with the Subject Benchmark Statements for Geography. Whether you already…

    January 18 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Visit our Events page to see all of our GeogEd events

Coordinators

Lynda Yorke: l.yorke@bangor.ac.uk

Naomi Holmes: n.holmes@shu.ac.uk

Hannah Mathers: hannah.mathers@glasgow.ac.uk

Contact Lynda or Ed Armston-Sheret for the Zoom link to join monthly meetings.