GeogPod

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.

In this episode, John speaks to Chris Winter and Dan Whittall, both Research Engagement Leads at the GA. Their conversation centres on the projects in which they are currently involved and their hopes for the future of research within geography education. They also touch on areas such as Diversity & Inclusion and de-colonising the curriculum.

Find the GA's Developing Classroom Research and Writing retreat here.

Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa.

Margaret Wilkinson’s Planning for Real.

The website of Decolonising Geography.

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.

In this episode, John speaks to Professor Dave Petley, the new Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hull. Their conversation centres of Dave's work on landslides, their relationship to earthquakes, the evolution of slopes and how they can be better taught in the classroom. Dave has a wealth of knowledge, recounting his work in Taiwan as well as discussing events like the Sichuan Earthquake in 2008 and its after-effects.

Follow Prof. Petley on Twitter here.

Sign up for the Inaugural Lecture here.

Watch the lecture Things are going downhill fast: Understanding massive landslides here.

Follow Prof. Petley's blog 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.

In the first episode of Series 11, John speaks with Clarry Simpson, a geography teacher and ECT Induction Lead in Brinsworth.

Their discussion centres on the NQT & ECT programs, the problems affecting new teachers, how the programs have changed and the importance of subject and curriculum knowledge.

Follow Clarry on Twitter.

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.

This week, John speaks to Richard Bustin, Alice Matthews & Charlotte Milner to discuss getting involved with Teaching Geography and how to write your first article for Teaching Geography.

Find out more about writing for the GA at https://www.geography.org.uk/Write-for-GA

Series 10 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by AQA.

Everyone has the potential to achieve, so we make sure that our qualifications give all students the opportunity to show what they can do and progress to the next stage of their lives.

Our UK qualifications are highly valued by employers and universities around the world.

As an independent education charity, our income is reinvested back into AQA’s charitable activities, funds our cutting-edge research and supports our initiatives to help young people facing challenges in life realise their potential. Visit AQA for more info.

This week John speaks with Ilan Kelman, to discuss why disasters aren't natural, and why it is up to us to make the positive changes so that diplomacy can work for everyone.

Links from the pod:

Follow Ilan on Twitter or Instagram

Read Disaster by Choice

Read his papers: Axioms and actions for preventing disasters and Does Nature Play Disaster Games?

See Ilan's talks on: What makes it tick? and The Curious Geographer on YouTube.

Series 10 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by AQA.

Everyone has the potential to achieve, so we make sure that our qualifications give all students the opportunity to show what they can do and progress to the next stage of their lives.

Our UK qualifications are highly valued by employers and universities around the world.

As an independent education charity, our income is reinvested back into AQA’s charitable activities, funds our cutting-edge research and supports our initiatives to help young people facing challenges in life realise their potential. Visit AQA for more info.

In this special, 60th episode of GeogPod, we hand over the guest seat to our stalwart presenter, John Lyon.

Follow John at https://twitter.com/GAGeogger

Series 10 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by AQA.

Everyone has the potential to achieve, so we make sure that our qualifications give all students the opportunity to show what they can do and progress to the next stage of their lives.

Our UK qualifications are highly valued by employers and universities around the world.

As an independent education charity, our income is reinvested back into AQA’s charitable activities, funds our cutting-edge research and supports our initiatives to help young people facing challenges in life realise their potential. Visit AQA for more info.

The guest for this week's podcast is Gemma Sou, Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University in Australia. Gemma and John talk about the human geography of the climate crisis, and how she uses graphic novels to represent her research into human-environment relationships and the gendered impacts of climate change. They look into the value of using different media for representing the personal, and giving students a portal into a different worldview.

Website: https://gemmasou.com/

After Maria with teaching resource https://gemmasou.com/creative-research/

Everyday stories of climate change with teaching resource https://gemmasou.com/everyday-stories-of-climate-change/

Twitter : https://twitter.com/gemmasou

Series 10 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by AQA.

Everyone has the potential to achieve, so we make sure that our qualifications give all students the opportunity to show what they can do and progress to the next stage of their lives.

Our UK qualifications are highly valued by employers and universities around the world.

As an independent education charity, our income is reinvested back into AQA’s charitable activities, funds our cutting-edge research and supports our initiatives to help young people facing challenges in life realise their potential. Visit AQA for more info.

In this episode, John chats with Narinder Mann: lecturer of Geography and Humanities Education at the University of Manchester. Their conversation centres on what makes a good geography teacher and what a good geography curriculum looks like.

Series 10 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by AQA.

Everyone has the potential to achieve, so we make sure that our qualifications give all students the opportunity to show what they can do and progress to the next stage of their lives.

Our UK qualifications are highly valued by employers and universities around the world.

As an independent education charity, our income is reinvested back into AQA’s charitable activities, funds our cutting-edge research and supports our initiatives to help young people facing challenges in life realise their potential. Visit AQA for more info.

In the first episode of Series 10, John catches up with David Lambert, Honorary Professor of Geography Education at the UCL Institute of Education and former GA Chief Executive.

They look back together at the recent history of the GA, and key concepts which helped to build its manifesto for geography: A Different View.

Their discussion looks closely at what it means to "think geographically" and why it is important for teachers to understand and get to know who they are teaching and how they see the world.

Find David Lambert's article Rediscovering the Teaching of Geography with the Focus on Quality here https://bit.ly/3IS5EPV

Find The Geography of It All here https://bit.ly/3yT3B9H

Series 10 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by AQA.

Everyone has the potential to achieve, so we make sure that our qualifications give all students the opportunity to show what they can do and progress to the next stage of their lives.

Our UK qualifications are highly valued by employers and universities around the world.

As an independent education charity, our income is reinvested back into AQA’s charitable activities, funds our cutting-edge research and supports our initiatives to help young people facing challenges in life realise their potential. Visit AQA for more info.