Living Geography

DECEMBER 7, 2024

GEO Live: Future Changemakers will take place on Thursday 17 April 2025 at the GA Annual Conference and Exhibition in Oxford. This programme, designed specially for students aged 1418, will enthuse them about geography and its wide-ranging applications, enable them to think beyond school toward university and possible careers in geography.

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Living Geography

MAY 3, 2025

Fiona Sheriff was on a bit of a roll through 2024 and this has continued into 2025. She received awards from the Geographical Association and the Royal Geographical Society. She has also been involved in a number of events as well as continuing her important work with the UK Polar Network.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

Still, the geography offers clues. Nobody Knows — Yet. The fossil defies easy dating. Seawater had long since stripped away its collagen, eliminating possibilities for radiocarbon analysis. During Ice Age glacial periods, sea levels dropped, and Taiwan was connected to mainland Asia. Fagernäs, Z., Patramanis, I., Troché, G.,

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Living Geography

MARCH 25, 2025

Via the Royal Scottish Geographical Society Do you teach Geography in Scotland? The survey takes around 30 minutes to complete, and the closing date is 11th April 2025. Wed love to hear from you! Click here to learn more and complete the survey: [link]

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Living Geography

MARCH 13, 2025

A part-time maternity cover teaching Geography in Kings Ely Senior school is currently available from September. The post is part time to cover maternity leave for the whole of the 2025/26 academic year. A job opportunity for you to work at my school. This would involve Deadline to apply is 19th of March. Details are here.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

He introduced himself to me by showing me the cover of 'Why Study Geography?' It was a pleasure to chat to Petr Knecht: from the University of Ostrava. on his phone and asking me whether that was me who'd written the book. He then showed me articles on Google Scholar where my book was referenced in his work and that of others.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

GA press release says: Despite growing diversity of the geography GCSE cohort, at A level and at university geography is one of the least diverse of all subjects. The subject, and its institutions, are not serving all geography teachers nor all young people who could benefit from studying geography. Change is needed.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 24, 2025

GTE = Geography Teacher Educators. The GTE Conference is an event I have attended periodically since 2009: the first time I attended, which was when I joined the Geographical Association. Until then I'd been unaware of it, and it was rare to see a teacher there.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The international "Night of Geography", promoted by EUGEO and IGU , will be held on April 4th 2025. I enjoyed presenting last year and had some good people turn out to watch my session. Details are here for those who are interested. If you'd like to propose a session the form is here.

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Living Geography

APRIL 29, 2025

Tim Price Walker has produced a nice piece on LinkedIn exploring the use of AI in Geography. Far from undermining traditional geography, it enhances our ability to understand complex, interconnected environments that impact both physical places and human experiences.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The first thing was to book for the Geography Teacher Educators' Conference 2025. The aim is to share best practice ideas and current research being done in geography education including masters level and other initiatives and project work, relevant to training geography teachers. This is taking place at St.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In our response we signal the value of a geographical education for all young people, the strengths of the current provision, and areas in need of attention for the geography curriculum. Geography is a subject that develops young people’s curiosity and helps them to apply that curiosity and learning in real-world contexts.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Our hybrid conference, scheduled for May 2, 2025 , will be held in person at the Graduate Center in Manhattan and online via Zoom. Please submit abstracts in PDF format to cunyclassicsconference@gmail.com no later than January 31, 2025. Notifications to all applicants will be sent by February 28, 2025.

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Living Geography

MAY 3, 2025

On his Facebook page, Zed says: After six years of working on The Anthropocene Illusion, the project (and I) have won the Sony World Photography Award 2025. There are some links from Zed's Facebook page and Instagram to some further images from the project which looks awesome and very tied in with ideas of cultural geography.

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Living Geography

APRIL 5, 2025

His obituary in The Guardian newspaper described him as A teacher who made geography fun Image: Alan Parkinson There was an RGS Obituary too. He came up with the project Geography through the Window along with Ashley Kent, Worldwise Week etc. and he also supported CGeog. and other RGS-IBG work.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

” Measuring Inequality in Clay and Stone To capture economic inequality across time and geography, the research team calculated the Gini coefficient —a statistical tool commonly used today to assess income distribution—for each of more than 1,000 archaeological settlements. .” link] 1 Feinman, G. Lawrence, D.,

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Living Geography

JANUARY 12, 2025

The Financial Times had a range of interesting articles this weekend, but one in particular was relevant for Geography. Henry Mance looks at the AMOC: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder" by @henrymance for @FinancialTimes : [link] Prof Michael E.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2025, for the first time in nearly a decade, science will be the major focus of the OECDs program for international student assessment (Pisa) which runs every three years (give or take Covid interruptions), its focus rotating between reading, maths and science. Climate change impacts every area of society and our lives, she says.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 6, 2024

By the start of September 2025 and the new academic year, a full suite of resources will be available for Primary Geography on the Oak National website. These will all be free to download. There are 6 units for each of years 1-6. 36 units all fully resourced with slide decks, worksheets, quizzes and videos.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As you (hopefully) know, I launched a new weekly Substack newsletter in the first week of 2025. There are also two posts which are relevant to my Geography in/on Film Blog on the representation of London in film. You can subscribe to it here. Will Fry has an excellent Substack called Changing Places. I'll mention them over there.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

2025), continue to refine our understanding of how humans and felines have interacted across time and geography. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg0221 These studies, along with Han et al. 1 Han, Y., Doherty, S., Jamieson, A. Martins, S. Fan, W., … Luo, S.-J.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

My session took place after the morning break on Day 2. I spoke about the work we had done at King's Ely Prep to develop a new unit on Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital'. This was still a work in progress, but has gone down well so far, and there is more to come in the final 2 weeks of this half term.

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Living Geography

APRIL 4, 2025

2025 competition The theme for the Young Geographer of the Year competition 2025 is: Understanding islands Lets take a closer look at the Worlds islands. Islands have a unique geography; their landscapes and coastlines vary massively some are home to volcanoes; others are barely above sea level.

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Does the French Revolution feel like it only happened yesterday? Are you struggling to persuade colleagues, friends, significant others that Boethius is actually quite interesting? All papers should last no more than 20 minutes and will be followed by a Q&A.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

Despite differences in time, geography, and material culture, many human groups developed the same set of knots—again and again. In a new study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1 , researchers from institutions across Europe compiled the most comprehensive cross-cultural knot database to date. 1 Kaaronen, R. Eronen, J.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The latest book by geography teacher Richard Bustin was published by Crown House Publishing in October 2024. It embraces in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards. The capabilities approach helps geography educators everywhere to articulate the importance of children learning how to think geographically.

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Living Geography

MARCH 2, 2025

This June, the GA Branch is running another GeogMeet. This will be the seventh Geog-Meet; held online in June this year. Deadlines for submission proposals are on Friday 28th March. Successful submission proposals will be asked to produce their presentations by the end of May. The evening event will be held in June.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 25, 2025

I arrived nicely on time for GTE after a journey down from Norfolk and the first person I saw was Margaret Roberts. Always a pleasure. I'd been to St. Mary's University of London before, for an ERASMUS project meeting. The first session in the first afternoon of GTE had the theme of Sustainable Futures.

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Living Geography

MARCH 26, 2025

Well, it was over a year ago that we started work on the 4th edition of the Collins textbook to support the teaching of the updated Cambridge iGCSE Geography specification (0460). The book is published by Collins (in 2025 of course) Paperback, 368pp ISBN: 978-0-00-872576-1 Price: 28.99

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Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Deadline The deadline for submitting ALL proposals for the 2025 Annual Meeting is Friday, April 5, 2024 at 11:59 P.M. (ET). There you will find important information pertaining to the requirements for making a submission, plus links to guidelines and other resources from our program committee on submitting a proposal for the Annual Meeting.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 17, 2025

Syed Hossain received his bachelors degree with a major in political science and minor in geography, as well as a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree, from the University of Montana. Please join us in congratulating the 2025-2026 class of fellows.

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Living Geography

APRIL 20, 2025

link] pic.twitter.com/Y1kDvk6xKM TeachGeogs (@TeachGeogs) April 17, 2025 A reminder of Teal Tool. This is my tree Carbon calculator that I shared at my talk. GAConf25 Have a go! Good for in the field crunching. And this session looked really good. Reminds me of Rebecca Solnit's three American atlas projects, which I have copies of.

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Living Geography

MARCH 28, 2024

I've been involved in the creation of the Oak National Primary Geography resources for KS1 and 2. It's now been announced that the GA is the curriculum partner for the KS3 resources, which will be available by September 2025. Again via the GA Newsletter. These are emerging over on the Oak site.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The first session of the 2nd day was rounded off by the ESRI Education team of Katie Hall and David Morgan. I had enjoyed their company on the first day as we tried to create a sustainable community on a desert island. They had been on the road all week in their ongoing efforts to bring GIS to the UK. They brought us up to speed with their work.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 1, 2025

What events are you intending to attend in 2025? David Alcock has posted on the GA Blog about the importance of attending conferences, including the Geographical Association conference of course.

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Living Geography

APRIL 2, 2024

I'm sorry not to be there for Denise Freeman's Presidential lecture, and catching up with the whole geography community, and also a chance to congratulate Steve Brace in person for his recent appointment as Chief Executive of the GA. I'd prepared a session on Jay Owens' book 'Dust' for the Geography Book Club session on Thursday.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 25, 2025

These were identified by the World Economic Forum's 'Global risk Report 2025' as a global risk. Globally, the number of people aged 65 and older is expected to increase by 36%, from 857 million in 2025 to 1.2 Countries are termed super-ageing or superaged when over 20% of their populations are over 65 years old. billion in 2035.

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