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This episode of GeogPod was recorded live at the GA’s Annual Conference in April 2024. Our host John Lyon talked to our guest, Donald McClean, from the Sheffield Environmental Movement. In the session they discussed the importance of fieldwork, widening participation in the natural environment, supporting diverse Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic Refugee (BAMER) community groups/organisations around Sheffield.
 
Resources
The Black Barbers Project on the SACMHA website. Sheffield Environmental Movement Development Education Centre South Yorkshire (DECSY)

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 geographyGCSE and A level resultsFind out more about AESIGFollow AESIG on X (formerly Twitter)

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.
Series 12 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Educake
We believe great teaching happens when teachers get the time to think.
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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): @PaulChatterton9Connect with Paul Chatterton on LinkedIn
Series 12 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Educake
We believe great teaching happens when teachers get the time to think.
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.
Your first month is free. Try Educake at www.educake.co.uk/geography

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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@educake
@educakegeog

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 – 
Geogramblings blog
Coffee and geography podcast
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:
Salaam Geographia
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.