GA Conference and Exhibition 2025

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.

9:00am BST

Making connections using a palimpsest approach to learning JHB lecture theatre Taking the learning outside: connecting geography and wellbeing 207 Challenging and addressing geographical misconceptions in the classroom 202 Geography teaching and Teaching Geography 201 Satellite data to support learning 203 Steps and slopes: investigating the effect of terracing on soil erosion and hydrographs Executive suite Where geography and pastoral care meet 206 Make sure you're connected: how can we connect GIS with the National Curriculum? Chakrabarti room

10:00am BST

What constitutes a good geography education in a rapidly changing world? JHB lecture theatre

11:00am BST

Connecting teachers: CIE A level 203 Morning break The Forum First timers' reception The Forum Student and ECT networking The Forum

11:30am BST

Living cities: connecting young people to nature in their home town 201 Put your geoggles on! Learn how to look for geographical connections 204 30 strategies that connect students to top NEA grades 206 Connecting with trees Executive suite Elemental geographical thinking and learning with a dynamic world 207 Fieldwork for connectivity Foyer Maps to ministers: a career journey from Liverpool to legislation JHB lecture theatre Why are Scandinavian countries so happy? Chakrabarti room Future fit qualifications - GIS as a tool in digital assessment 202 Envisioning futures for geography education research: priorities, connections and contributions 203 Powerful resources: cross-curricular climate change strategies, initiatives and resources 205

12:30pm BST

Challenging the Decolonial: Lessons from Collaborative Educational Resource Creation 201 Do textbooks support development of climate-change-informed citizens? 204 Live Video Calls for Connecting Global Voices in the Geography Classroom 202 International Network meeting Executive suite Lunch break The Terrace

1:00pm BST

Hopes and worries: Dutch primary students' feelings regarding the climate crisis 204 What did the Teaching Physical Geography blog ever do for me? 205 Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Agricultural lands using Geographical Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) in Nigeria 201 Teaching an English geography curriculum abroad: who is the Other? 202

2:00pm BST

The AI revolution: incorporating AI into the geography classroom and establishing ethical student use Chakrabarti room Connecting children to 'their' geography 207 Booklets and other strategies to support QFT in geography 204 Innovative Careers Resources: Environment Agency Careers for Geographers 201 Pearson Edexcel Geography: discussing future geography qualifications and reform 205 Reading like a geographer: improving geographical literacy 206 Seamless geography: enhancing primary to secondary transition beyond the prescriptive curriculum Executive suite Connecting with fieldwork enquiry JHB lecture theatre Geography Field Trip or Disaster Tourism? 203 Down to Earth geography: connecting the eco and the social 202

3:00pm BST

Look up: teaching local geography and history through a different lens 204 Connecting geography to everyday life in Singapore's curriculum 203 Curriculum interleaving 201 Afternoon break The Forum

3:30pm BST

The water cycle: back to basics JHB lecture theatre Towards a diverse and inclusive GA: new research insights 203 Should regeneration be national or local? Eden Project Morecambe 202 Building connections with the Migration Museum Executive suite Let's connect: a curriculum jigsaw 207 Building on Barbie: questioning as a method of improving female student engagement in geography 206 Successful synopticity 205 GIS: the key to understanding our interconnected world – seven ideas Chakrabarti room Making geography the heart and soul of the school 201

4:20pm BST

Developing global connections: bringing the outside world in 207 Colombia and its diaspora: connecting case studies at A level 203 Connecting with HE partners using Royal Society grant funding Executive suite Making Connections in Geography: What does this mean in practice? 201 Navigating personal geographies: leveraging educational technology in transforming geographical education 205 Pedagogy of hope and scenario tasks 204 Soccernomics 2.0: Champions League edition 202 Planning for progress in procedural knowledge in connected geographies JHB lecture theatre Practical ways to make departmental CPD more effective 206

5:15pm BST

Celebratory reception The Forum

6:00pm BST

Presidential Lecture: Connected Geographies JHB lecture theatre

7:00pm BST

TeachMeet The Terrace

8:00pm BST

GA Big Quiz The Terrace

9:00am BST

Making connections through co-planning conversations 206 Sustainability Support for Education JHB lecture theatre What if? A philosophical approach to geography Executive suite Spiralling sustainability - Deepening understanding through insights from a Singapore school 205 Developing space and place: helping young children connect to the world around them 207 A relational approach to decolonising geography teaching 203 Geography revision: connecting facts with concepts 204 Planning for progression in your geography curriculum 201 Write like a geographer Chakrabarti room What does progress look like when using GIS? 202

10:00am BST

Nairobi National Park – A case study of connected geographies JHB lecture theatre

11:00am BST

Encouraging Media Literacy in Geography 205 Morning break The Forum 50 years of Teaching Geography GIS for Everyone: Developing GIS across the geography curriculum 206

11:30am BST

Meeting in the middle: walk to collaborative futures for teachers and researchers 201 Connecting the 'what' with the 'why' of fieldwork 205 Empowering tomorrow's geographers: bringing links to life Foyer How can understanding early years benefit geography educators? 207 The future of AQA Geography 203 Connecting to place: insights from the Migration Museum 202 Exploring the new volcanic era in Iceland Chakrabarti room Collaborative planning for climate action in your school with the Climate Ambassadors scheme Executive suite

12:30pm BST

Imagining decolonial futures: The role of ITE in decolonising geography 203 Primary meet and greet Lunch break The Terrace

2:00pm BST

Tails of the unexpected: rich geographical connections 207 Tackling educational disadvantage in the geography classroom Executive suite Making connections in the NEA 205 Using technology to connect with geographical fieldwork 206 Connecting diverse communities to their locality through a decolonised cross-curricular local study 202 How effective is adaptation to extreme weather? 203 You can measure every pebble! Drone flight to virtual fieldwork resources Chakrabarti room Moving beyond the Drosscape: insider perspectives on Detroit 201

3:00pm BST

GIS-T 206 Geography education in Britain's long 20th century: Evolving discourses of empire and development 201 Afternoon break The Forum

3:30pm BST

Curriculum debates 203 Exploring the Holocaust through sites and sources 201 You don't know what you got 'til it's gone' – Joni Mitchell 207 Arriving where we started: do we know our place? 202 GIS for disaster risk awareness: a fieldwork approach Executive suite Critical connections 204 Homelessness policy and practice: the geographical connection JHB lecture theatre Integrating climate education into GCSE Geography 205 Telling geography's stories to non-specialist audiences Chakrabarti room

4:20pm BST

Connecting cartography Executive suite Learning through enquiry: possibilities and plans 204 What kind of geographical connections do students need to make? JHB lecture theatre Connecting farming with geography teaching 203 Planning for progression in fieldwork 11–19 202 Meaning Making in the Primary Geography Curriculum 207 How to teach Africa better 205 Maths for A level geography: reflections, ideas and discussion 206 Nature in cities: connecting communities 201 Why is African migration a problem in and out of Africa? Chakrabarti room