Queen Mary University of London

A conference will be held on the 3rd of June at Queen Mary University of London. Delegate fee is just £30 per person.

The event will take place at the University and the programme is included below. As you can see, I have a small part to play in the event.

09.45     Registration/coffee

10.15     Welcome

10.30     Professor Miles Ogborn (QMUL) Globalisation and information

11.15     Dr Simon Carr (QMUL) Global climate change: information and disinformation

12.00     Richard Pole (Digital Worlds International) GIS software for Geography in Schools

12.30     Lunch (plus hands-on GIS)

13.15     Richard Pole hands on GIS

14.15     Dr Steve Cummins (QMUL) Visualising and mapping inequalities in health

15.00     Tea

15.15     Question and Answer Panel Current Issues in the curriculum and the teaching of Geography in schools

               Alan Parkinson (GA and 2008 winner of Ordnance Survey Award for Excellence in Geography teaching in Secondary Education)

               Steve Brace/Kate Amis (RGS-IBG)

               Dr Simon Oakes (principal examiner EdExcel and chief examiner IB Geography)

               chair Dr Beth Greenough (QMUL)

16.45     Feedback and close of conference

17.15     optional: wine nibbles etc, tours of department and campus

1830      optional: Professor Jon May inaugural lecture Geographies of homelessness, hopelessness ... and hope