Episodes
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Episode #75: AESIG - Progression in geography
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
In this episode our host, John Lyon, chats with John Hopkins, Katherine Baulcomb and Luke Hinchliffe - members of the GA's Assessment and Examinations Special Interest Group (AESIG). They discuss topics such as progression in geography, the progression and assessment guidance, sequencing, enquiry based learning and more.
Resources:
Progression and assessment in geography
GCSE and A level results
Find out more about AESIG
Follow AESIG on X (formerly Twitter)
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Episode #74: James Esson - Viewing the world through a geographical lens
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
In this episode join John Lyon and Professor James Esson from Queen Mary University of London as they discuss viewing the world through a geographical lens. They cover a wide range of topics including conspicuous margins, pedagogy and voice, inequality, social economy, and improving the future.
Professor James Esson will also be our keynote speaker at the GA Conference 2024. Find out more about Conference 2024 here.
Resources
- Coffee and Geography Podcast
- Decolonising Geography Collective
- Race, Culture and Equality Working group of the RGS-IBG
- Salaamgeographia
- Esson, J. (2015). Better off at home? Rethinking responses to trafficked West African footballers in Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(3), 512-530.
- Esson, J. (2020). “The why and the white”: Racism and curriculum reform in British geography. Area, 52(4), 708-715.
- Esson, J., & Last, A. (2020). Anti‐racist learning and teaching in British geography. Area, 52(4), 668-677.
- Esson, J., Amankwaa, E. F., & Mensah, P. (2021). Boys are tired! Youth, urban struggles, and retaliatory patriarchy. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46(1), 193-207.
- Winter, C. (2023). The geography GCSE curriculum in England: a white curriculum of deceit. Whiteness and Education, 8(2), 313-331.
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Friday Jan 05, 2024
Episode #73: Paul Chatterton - How to save the city
Friday Jan 05, 2024
Friday Jan 05, 2024
In this episode of GeogPod John is joined by Paul Chatterton, Professor of Urban Futures at the University of Leeds. A few topics they discuss include Paul’s book How to save the city, the climate crisis, social inequalities and the breakdown of our natural world.
Visit howtosavethecity.org to find out more about the book.
Follow Paul on X (Twitter): @PaulChatterton9
Connect with Paul Chatterton on LinkedIn
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Educake helps teachers do more teaching by saving you time setting homework, marking, and analysing results. It’s easy to get started and it only take a few clicks to set a quiz that is matched to your exam board. You get immediate insights into strengths and weaknesses, and students get instant feedback.
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Friday Nov 24, 2023
Episode #72: The benefits of Educake
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Join John Lyon discussing the topic of Educake with Charley Darbishire, MD and Founder of Educake, and Claire Power, Head of Geography.
John, Charley and Claire discuss retrieval practice, how Educake was founded, what it is, how it can be used and the benefits for both teachers and students.
Get your first month free, try Educake here.
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Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Episode #71: Spotlight session - Navigating EDI through geography
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
In this episode you are invited to listen in on a conversation held earlier this year as part of our Navigating EDI through geography course.
Course presenters Kit Marie Rackley, Akhera Williams, Alice Hoy and Sarah Hayden sat down together to discuss their thoughts on integrating EDI into everyday geography lessons and the challenges teachers might encounter in the curriculum.
More from the presenters:
Kit Marie Rackley's blog and podcast are available online here –
Akhera Williams Voices Project
Alice Hoy's presentation for the GA Annual Conference 2022 – Finding the rainbow in the geography curriculum
Sarah Hayden speaks about the Universal design for learning.
The course was also supported by Iram Sammar, who you can find here:
To book for the next run of this course and get involved in conversations like these you can find out all about it on the GA website.
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Episode #70: The Chalk Stream Challenge
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
In this episode John Lyon discusses the Chalk Stream Challenge with Hazel Metcalfe and Sarah Smith.
Hazel and Sarah created The Chalk Stream Challenge as part of the Watercress and Winterbournes Landscape Partnership Scheme. They discuss how the challenge began, who the challenge is suitable for, some of the activities involved, features of a Chalk Stream and how the activities can be adapted.
Find out more about the Chalk Stream Challenge
Watercress and Winterbournes provide more background information and resources
The Wessex Rivers Trust have many other Chalk Streams in their area
Other Wildlife Trusts may be able to help with river dipping expeditions and rivers in their area
Series 12 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Educake
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Educake helps teachers do more teaching by saving you time setting homework, marking, and analysing results. It’s easy to get started and it only take a few clicks to set a quiz that is matched to your exam board. You get immediate insights into strengths and weaknesses, and students get instant feedback.
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Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Episode #69: Richard Philips – The meaning of place
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
In this episode John Lyon discussed the topic of place with Professor Richard Phillips from the University of Sheffield. Richard was joined in this podcast by Tariq Jazeel and Maddy Starzak in the first ever live recorded episode from our Annual Conference 2023.
Richard Phillips, Professor of Human Geography at the University Sheffield, discusses some of his work on place, writing and fieldwork. His publications in this area include Fieldwork for Human Geography (2012) and Fieldwork for Social Research (forthcoming in 2023), both written with Jennifer Johns and published by Sage, and Creative Writing for Social Research (2021, Policy Press).
Changing Place; Changing Places - An accessible resource for schools and teachers, available on RGS website here.
Georges Perec's Geographies - Free-to-download book which includes readings of Perec and geographical fieldwork inspired and informed by Perec, including a chapter by postal worker and poet Kevin Boniface, featured in the podcast here.
This episode of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by OCR.
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As a not-for-profit organisation, their success is measured through the impact and reach of their activities and contribution to helping students achieve their goals. One area of particular importance is addressing issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in education. At OCR they've already stepped up to this challenge – discover more about what they are doing, and how you can support them on their journey, visit their website.
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Episode #68: Helen Mazalon - Leaving nobody behind
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
In this episode John is joined by Helen Mazalon, a GIS Technician at Alcis.
They discuss many topics surrounding GIS for example: Who Alcis are and what they do, the difficulties students face getting into the entry level job market, the 30 day map challenge, the accuracy of data, and more.
Here are Helen's top 5 suggestions for GIS resources:
- Humanitarian Open Street Map - A really good resource – an overview of what HOTOSM/OSM for data, context, projects to get involved in
- Open Street Map - To edit and contribute to OSM
- ESRI Blog - A good source of case studies
- Humanitarian Data Exchange - Good for open source data
Series 11 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Hodder Education.
Hodder Education work with expert authors to produce the very best Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-level Geography resources for you and your students, and on their website, you’ll discover exam board approved textbooks, revision guides, teaching support and more.
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Episode #67: Alex Densmore - Learning from the landscape
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
In this episode John is joined by Professor Alex Densmore, Deputy Head of Geography at Durham University.
Focusing on his research in Nepal, they talk about how investigating tectonically active landscapes can reveal chains of linked hazards, and why it is important to link international humanitarian efforts with local communities.
Find information on the post-Gorkha landslide here.
View the Government of Nepal's portal for hazard and risk information.
Visit the CEOS website.
Series 11 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Hodder Education.
Hodder Education work with expert authors to produce the very best Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-level Geography resources for you and your students, and on their website, you’ll discover exam board approved textbooks, revision guides, teaching support and more.
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Episode #66: Daanish Mustafa - Critical Geography
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
In the 66th episode, John Speaks to Daanish Mustafa, Professor in Critical Geography at King's College London. The episode centres on what Critical Geography is and how Daanish's thinking was shaped. They also touch on the concepts of structuralism and post-structuralism before discussing the 2022 Pakistan floods and flood management.
Find Gender and Social Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Study of Disaster Prone Areas in Sindh here.
Find Gender and Violence in Urban Pakistan here.
Series 11 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Hodder Education.
Hodder Education work with expert authors to produce the very best Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-level Geography resources for you and your students, and on their website, you’ll discover exam board approved textbooks, revision guides, teaching support and more.