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.

In this episode John was joined by Dr Agatha Herman, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University, specialising in the geography of ethics and justice. Agatha talked about her work in South Africa, empowerment, wine, food security and Fairtrade.

Agatha is the author of Practising Empowerment in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Wine, Ethics and Development. 

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

This week, John spoke to Tony Champion, Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at Newcastle University about urbanisation, counter urbanisation, migration trends and demographic change (as well as touching on, inevitably, Brexit and Covid-19).

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

This week, John spoke to Brad Frankel from Flooglebinder about the company's history and his views on sustainable tourism and also to Fearghal O'Nuallain, once dubbed the 'UK's coolest teacher' about his journey to becoming a geography teacher and his new book The Kindness of Strangers. 

Links mentioned in the podcast:

The GA Study Tour for Nicaragua

The Non-Human Interest Story: De-Personalising the Migrant - Anita Howarth

The Nature Fix

Blue Mind

WTTC

BCorp

In this episode John had a very insightful conversation with Hina Robinson, a secondary geography teacher and Tariq Jazeel, Professor of Geography at UCL, about defining and decolonising geography. 

Why not check out Hina's excellent blog post on how she teaches the development gap, or  download the materials from Tariq's eConference session, "The world is sound: geographies of British-Asian dance music"?

Many thanks to our sponsor, Flooglebinder.

This week, John spoke to Simran Jouhal who is head of Geography in a north London school and the founder of the fantastic Geographia blog.

Simran talked about how she ended up becoming a geographer teacher, the challenges of leading a department, and also the issues around diversity within geography. 

Simran will also be one of the presenters at the GA's upcoming CPD event 'Heads of geography eConference: Leading a successful department'. More details here.

Many thanks to our sponsor, Flooglebinder.

This week, John spoke to Dr Fiona Ferbrache, Lecturer in Geography at University of Oxford about her work in citizenship, migration and Brexit.  

Many thanks to our sponsor, Flooglebinder.

This week, John spoke to Dr Bethan Davies, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at Royal Hollaway University of London about her work in glaciation and climate change. 

You can visit Bethan's brilliant Antarctic Glaciers website here. You may also be interested in taking a look at the BritIce Glacial Map which was mentioned in the pod. 

Many thanks to our sponsor, Flooglebinder.

Welcome to Series 2 of GeogPod! This week, John spoke to Stephen Legg, Professor of Historical Geography at Nottingham University. Stephen discussed his work on globalisation, internationalism and colonial India.

Many thanks to our sponsor, Flooglebinder.

Some links to websites mentioned in the podcast.

• Stephen's article for Geography.

This week, John spoke to Chris King, Emeritus Professer of Earth Science Education at Keele University, plate tectonics, geology, and generally his life and career in education. 

Take a look at the Earth Learning Idea website for a huge archive of earth-related teaching ideas and activities.