GeogPod

In this episode, Wildlife Protection & Animal Welfare activist and Pearson World Changer ambassador Dominic Dyer talked us through some of his varied and influential work and activism. Dominic also touched on the Dasgupta Review, how young activists can become the decision makers of tomorrow, the badger culling debate, bees, and lots more besides!

Many thanks to Pearson for sponsoring season 4 of GeogPod.

Links from the pod

Pearson World Changer Awards

Badgered to Death: The People and Politics of the Badger Cull

The Dasgupta Review

This week John spoke to primary school teachers Simon Collis & Leanne Chorekdjian-Jojaghaian, about sustainable development goals, the challenges for non-specialists teaching geography at primary, their approach to the primary curriculum and many other things!

Some links from the pod:

Leanne's BSL YouTube channel

GA publications that Simon has authored

SuperSchemes: Investigating Climate and Biomes

SuperSchemes: Investigating Latitude & Longitude

This week John spoke to Alastair Owens, Professor of Historical Geography at Queen Mary University, London about his research on the role of the Church and religion more generally in the inner cities. Alastair also spoke about how the Covid pandemic has changed our relationship with our homes as well as some of his other projects.

Many thanks to Pearson for sponsoring season 4 of GeogPod.

Some links from the pod

Urban Vicarages project

Museum of the Home

Stay Home: Rethinking the Domestic during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alastair's article on the archaeology of poor Victorian households

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This week John spoke to Dr Harriet Ridley, palaeoclimatologist and Production Coordinator at Time for Geography about how we can learn about the future of the climate from its past, her love of rock climbing and much more!

This week John spoke to Kit Rackley about why climate change is a safeguarding issue, eco-anxiety, how to navigate the politics of climate change, and teaching students to think critically about the climate.

Kit Rackley is a former geography teacher turned activist, consultant, author, blogger and most recently higher education champion. Take a look at more of Kit's work via the links below.

Links from the pod

Geogramblings - Kit's blog

'Climate change - a safeguarding issue', GA Magazine, p.20

Why Not Now? - Kit's poem for the Youth Climate Summit 2020

In this episode John spoke to GIS advocate and enthusiast Joseph Kerski. They discussed what GIS is, explored terms such as 'geospatial thinking' and 'the geographic perspective', as well as detailing a host of free GIS tools teachers can use in their lessons today.

Joseph Kerski is a geographer with a focus on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in education. Joseph gave a TED Talk on ‘The Whys of Where’. He holds 3 degrees in geography and has served as geographer in 4 sectors of society, including government (21 years at NOAA, US Census Bureau, USGS), academia (Penn State, Sinte Gleska University, University of Denver, others), private industry (as Education Manager for Esri for 14 years), and non-profit organisations (as President of the National Council for Geographic Education, and others). Find out more about Joseph's work on his website.

Many thanks to Pearson for sponsoring season 4 of GeogPod.

Resources mentioned in the podcast:

Joseph's 'Our Earth' video channel.

Joseph's Twitter

Joseph's 'Thinking Spatially' podcast.

Esri UK schools site.

ArcGIS Online, 2D maps and 3D scene viewer and analytical tools.

Essays on spatial data, data quality, ethics, societal issues.

Wayback imagery app.

Story Maps.

Water Balance app.

Elevation profile app.

Joseph's walkability map, survey, dashboard, and story map.

Kate Stockings is head of geography at a London school as well as being an active blogger and sharer of ideas on Twitter. Kate joined John on the pod to discuss geographical literacy - teaching students how to speak and write like a geographer.

Series 3 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press.

Mark Maslin is a professor of climatology at University College London

Mark and John discussed dealing with climate change deniers, how climate change relates to human evolution and migration, and reasons for optimism in the fight against the climate crisis.

Mark's new book, How To Save Our Planet: The Facts is available to preorder now. Read Mark's article for The Conversation, 'The five corrupt pillars of climate change denial' as well as his interview with his own daughter about why she was striking for the climate.

Series 3 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press.

This week, John had a far-reaching discussion with Dr Patricia Noxolo, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Birmingham University.

John and Patricia covered a lot of ground in the pod, talking about Patricia's work on dance and laughter in post-colonial Caribbean spaces as well as her role on the RGS-IBG's Race, Culture and Equality Working Group. They finished up by tackling the question, 'what is Black British geography?'

Series 3 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press.

In this week's episode, John spoke to Tom Highnett, a geography teacher now Assistant Principal and Director of Post-16 at a South Yorkshire school.

Tom spoke about the challenges of senior leadership, curriculum planning, progression as well as some thornier issues such as future of GCSEs, how to teach divisive topical issues and, of course, Covid-19.

Series 3 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press.

Some links mentioned in the episode:

A link to Tom's (work in progress) 7 year curriculum here.

A link to the Team Geography blog.