Mid-June and time for the geography southwest Annual Conference, held, once again, at the University of the West of England (UWE) on the northern outskirts of Bristol, but today in a new venue, the Enterprise Park 1 building. Simon Ross, John Davidson, plus Dr Harry West and colleagues at UWE, had done a sterling job of pulling everything together. My …
GlosGeog’s first virtual speaker session of 2026!
This afternoon, GlosGeog, Gloucestershire’s local Geographical Association (GA) branch, welcomed 17 schools, largely from the south west of England, to hear Dr Billy Clayton (a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Human Geography at the University of the West of England [UWE]) talk about ‘Changing places – Banksy and BLM: Cultural change in Bristol‘. Bristol is a case study referenced …
A very timely virtual speaker session on the back of COP30
This afternoon, teachers and students from more than 25 schools across the UK and beyond convened for GlosGeog‘s second virtual speaker session of this academic year. We were very fortunate to secure Dr Harry West, Senior Lecturer and Programme leader for Geography and Environmental Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship at the University of the West of England, for an hour or so …
And, now one for Key Stage 4 and 5 students!
It was time for our first virtual speaker session of this academic year. Dr Chris Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Management in the School of Architecture and Environment at the University of the West of England, kindly agreed to give up his time to speak to Key Stage 4 and 5 students about the link between water and …
GlosGeog’s first event of the academic year 2025-2026
Our first GlosGeog (Gloucestershire’s local Geographical Association branch) event for the academic year 2025-2026 was kindly hosted by the Teaching School Hub at Balcarras School near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. All places were filled a week or so prior to the event; 20 plus primary and secondary teachers came together from schools within Gloucestershire and neighbouring counties, alongside myself and the two …
Time for geography southwest’s annual secondary conference!
Another year has passed. It was time to head off to the University of the West of England (UWE), just north of Bristol, for geography southwest’s annual secondary conference, organised so efficiently by Simon Ross and John Davidson in conjunction with Dr Harry West and colleagues in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management. This is one of the highlights …
geography southwest’s annual conference comes to UWE!
How has a year passed by? It was time for geography southwest’s annual conference, once again hosted by the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England (UWE) on the outskirts of Bristol (https://www.uwe.ac.uk/courses/find-a-course/courses-by-subject/geography-and-environmental-management). I had offered to support the organisers, Dr Harry West, Simon Ross and John Davidson, with welcoming delegates and registration, …
GlosGeog’s first event of the academic year 2023-2024!
Our first event of this academic year was kindly hosted by Sir Thomas Rich’s School in Gloucester (https://strschool.co.uk/). Dr Harry West, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England (UWE) offered to give up his time to speak to GCSE and A level students and their teachers, both virtually and …
GlosGeog speaker session (Stroud High School, Gloucestershire)
Well, it was, once again, time to head off to Stroud High School (SHS) in Gloucestershire (https://stroudhigh.gloucs.sch.uk/); not to conduct an Online Safety Mark assessment today, but to partake in GlosGeog’s final event of this academic year, which they had very kindly offered to host. Thanks to their technical team, we were also able to coordinate a live stream and …
geography southwest Annual Conference, University of the West of England (UWE)
Well, it was, once again, time to venture down the M5 to Bristol for geography southwest’s Annual Conference. It was a rather early start for me as I was supporting the organisers, Simon Ross, John Davidson and Harry West, with the welcoming and registration of delegates … and there were quite a few! In fact, tickets were sold well in …
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