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Welcome to the GA’s online programme for the Annual Conference and Exhibition 2025! Take some time to explore the programme and build a personalised schedule using the full list below, or find the best sessions for you using the filter options. Keep an eye on this programme for updates and to interact with other delegates, exhibitors and sponsors. For more information on the Conference, see the GA website.
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Wednesday, April 16
 

9:00am BST

Challenging and addressing geographical misconceptions in the classroom
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am BST
202
Geography students can sometimes struggle to derive the intended level of understanding from new content. Often, this can be due to their own misconceptions about the world. This session seeks to identify some of these misconceptions and provide strategies to address them. Attendees will also be invited to share and discuss their own examples and strategies, allowing educators to help students make stronger knowledge-based connections in their geography lessons.
Speakers
avatar for Sarah Larsen

Sarah Larsen

Teacher of geography/former subject lead mentor for SCITT, Reigate School
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am BST
202 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Secondary

9:00am BST

Geography teaching and Teaching Geography
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am BST
201
As Teaching Geography celebrates its 50th year of publication, this session picks out some highlights from the archive and shares how to get the most out of your journal subscription. Then we want to hear from you: where do we go next? What topics should we be publishing articles on? Aspiring writers welcome; bring your ideas!
Speakers
avatar for Dr Richard Bustin

Dr Richard Bustin

Head of Geography, Lancing College
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am BST
201 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Secondary

9:00am BST

Make sure you're connected: how can we connect GIS with the National Curriculum?
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am BST
Chakrabarti room
Following recent concerns about a lack of GIS in the curriculum (e.g. Ofsted 2023), this session will offer suggestions on connecting GIS and other geospatial learning to its rightful place in the curriculum based on many years of ongoing classroom practice. The session will consider curriculum sequencing, progression and endpoints for school-based GIS.
Speakers
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Brendan Conway

Teacher of Geography, Notre Dame Senior School
I have over thirty years’ experience as geography teacher, head of department and pastoral lead in three maintained schools and one independent school. I led my current department to become a Geographical Association Centre of Excellence. I'm an RGS Chartered Geographer (Teacher).I... Read More →
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am BST
Chakrabarti room Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Subject knowledge

11:30am BST

Put your geoggles on! Learn how to look for geographical connections
Wednesday April 16, 2025 11:30am - 12:20pm BST
204
Learn how to: look for (and find) connectivity, representation, multiple dimensions and synoptic elements within changing places; and how to find clues about the interconnected past, present and future(s). Practice how these skills can be used for high-level responses within 'To what extent' exam questions, and be equipped with a ready-to-use case study (Kochi, India).
Speakers
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Kathryn McDonald

Subject lead for Geography and AQA examiner, Retired - previously Southend High School for Boys.
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Imogen Sahi

Stepwell
avatar for Susan Knight
Wednesday April 16, 2025 11:30am - 12:20pm BST
204 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Early career teacher

11:30am BST

Connecting with trees
Wednesday April 16, 2025 11:30am - 12:20pm BST
Executive suite
Discover how trees can enrich your curriculum, fostering hands-on learning, fieldwork, GIS and environmental stewardship. Gain practical ideas for projects and activities that connect students with nature and challenge them to think about how the trees in your school site/local area connect to larger concepts such as sustainability and climate change.
Speakers
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Martin Sutton

Lecturer in Geography Education and Secondary School Geography Teacher, University of Reading and the Holt School
Wednesday April 16, 2025 11:30am - 12:20pm BST
Executive suite Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Fieldwork

12:30pm BST

Do textbooks support development of climate-change-informed citizens?
Wednesday April 16, 2025 12:30pm - 12:55pm BST
204
The title is now updated to: How Can Textbooks Better Guide Students in Learning Geography?
Summary with AI support: This session explores how world-centred knowledge and question-led learning are embedded in China’s geography textbooks. Drawing on comparative studies and Shanghai’s latest curriculum, it highlights pathways from content to competencies. Through the Amazon Rainforest case study, it shows how textbooks can foster relational thinking, ethical awareness, and future-oriented geographers who learn not just facts, but ways of becoming.
Speakers
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Dr Xin Miao

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, East China Normal University; University of Stirling
geographies; sustainability; textbook;
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Dr Xin Ai

East China Normal University
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Prof Yushan Duan

East China Normal University

GAConf25 How Can Textbooks Better Guide Students in Learning Geography Xin Miao and Yushan Duan 16 April pdf
GA2025 16 April 12.30 pdf
Wednesday April 16, 2025 12:30pm - 12:55pm BST
204 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Early career teacher

1:00pm BST

What did the Teaching Physical Geography blog ever do for me?
Wednesday April 16, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm BST
205
Learn how articles posted on the Teaching Physical Geography blog have helped to shape and improve the teaching of physical geography topics, and how this impacts students' learning. Plus, find out how you can get involved and contribute to the canon of experience.
Speakers
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Alison Dunphy

Senior Teaching Associate Geography Education, GA Physical Geography Special Interest Group (PGSIG)/ University of Cambridge
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Ryan Nock

Head Of Geography, Carr Manor Community School (Parkside School)
Wednesday April 16, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm BST
205 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Secondary

2:00pm BST

Reading like a geographer: improving geographical literacy
Wednesday April 16, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm BST
206
In the words of Dr Seuss, 'reading can take you places you have never been before'. It enables students to connect with geographies and cultures that aren't their own while fostering cross-curricular links. This workshop provides practical ideas to engage students with resources that they may not otherwise use in order to broaden their geographical horizons and encourage aspiration.
Speakers
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Jema Kinsman

Head of Humanities, Rushden Academy
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Fiona Sheriff

Head of Geography, Kingsthorpe College
Wednesday April 16, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm BST
206 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Secondary

2:00pm BST

Down to Earth geography: connecting the eco and the social
Wednesday April 16, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm BST
202
The session opens up discussion about the future of geography teaching in the face of the epochal challenges facing human societies – and indeed life on Earth. This requires fresh thinking about the purposes and potential of education, and the possible contributions of geography. We focus on teachers' 'knowledge work' in the context of the late Bruno Latour’s terrestrial eco-social politics.
Speakers
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Prof David Lambert

Professor of Geographical Education, UCL Institute of Education
Wednesday April 16, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm BST
202 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Subject leader

3:30pm BST

The water cycle: back to basics
Wednesday April 16, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm BST
JHB lecture theatre
We look again at the water cycle, including: how to draw a cloud; how to make a cloud; popular misconceptions we've discovered from our climate literacy survey; the water cycle and climate change; cloud seeding and conspiracy theories; contrails (and chemtrails) and climate change; and changes to the oceans and cryosphere.
Speakers
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Prof Sylvia Knight

Head of Education, Royal Meteorological Society
Sylvia Knight is Head of Education at the Royal Meteorological Society and a visiting Professor in the schools of Education and of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences at the University of Reading. With a background in climate science, her role involves supporting the... Read More →
Wednesday April 16, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm BST
JHB lecture theatre Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
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