Geography Matters is a free newsletter produced by the GA’s Post-16 and HE Phase Committee. It features articles on a range of issues affecting post-16 geography education and articles on topics covered at post-16.

Geography Matters – Spring 2023

Contents

• Chair’s notes
• Bookworms’ recommendations for geographers
• Geography matters – whatever you do!
• More top tips for the NEA
• Reflections on a CPD event to explore decolonisation in the geography curriculum
• Challenging slum stereotypes
• Why do we live in hazardous places?
• Place matters! Rediscovering the role of geography in the energy transition

Geography Matters – Spring 2022

Contents

• Chair’s notes
• What I’m reading and who I’m speaking to
• Student voices celebrate geography
• A personal reflection of COP26
• Top Spec Geography – the latest publications
• GA National Fieldwork Week
• NEA tips and hacks
• Reflections on Critical Thinking CPD
• Explore the benefits of virtual field courses
• Energy transitions

Geography Matters – Spring 2021

Contents

• Notes from the Chair
• Students reflect on their geography during lockdown
• Teaching during the pandemic – Reflections
• Your NEA: The Last Lap
• What is compassionate geography?
• Decolonise, decolonisation, decoloniality?
• Arctic Climate Change and the accelerating impacts of permafrost degradation
• COP 26: some food for thought

Geography Matters – Spring 2020

Contents

• Chair’s notes
• Geography really matters
• Where’s the geography?
• An electric revolution?
• Having a clear-out? An idea for Changing Places
• Soulless housing developments
• Access to pre-hospital health care
• Waste management In Masaka region, Uganda
• Book reviews

Geography Matters – Spring 2019

Contents

• Chair’s notes
• Celebrating geography at university
• The Non-Examination Assessment (NEA): 10 tips for success
• Graffiti, Changing Places and the NEA
• Experiencing emotional geographies and place through fieldwork
• Using examination mark schemes to support A level geography teaching
• Brexit, Trump and why geography really, really matters
• A forgotten European disaster: the Great Cephalonian Earthquake 1953
• Harrats of the Arabian Peninsula

Geography Matters – Spring 2018

Contents

• Chair’s notes
• Young Change Makers for the Sustainable Development Goals
• Bridging the classroom and the real world: the real geographies of emergency planning
• A Journey towards emergency planning
• Transport Geography – the path to somewhere
• Geography opens doors: working in sustainability, community and environment
• From studying the world to travelling the world: Is geography useful for a career as cabin crew?
• Revival of the Garden City
• Port Talbot, India and China: A case study of place connections and global systems
• Cultural landscapes in Peninsular Malaysia
• Cultural Festivals and political geography – a personal reflection for geographical education
• Using GIS in A level geography to support geographical enquiry and develop students’ geographical knowledge
• Using Story Map for NEA and EPQ

Geography Matters – Spring 2017

Contents

• Chair’s notes
• Remaking place: King’s Cross Central
• Culture, Events and Placemaking
• The Sediment Budget in Deserts: More than Just Sand
• Applying Geography: Land Referencing to Support Infrastructure Development
• Sustainable Development and Social Inclusion
• Going to University: the Student View
• The Hunger Games: Food Inequality in the 21st century
• Why are Black and Ethnic Minority groups under-represented in Geography Education?

Contents

• Chair’s notes
• Urban places in the making
• UK festival industry and climate change
• Black portraits – making geographical connections through political communication
• Big beyond
• BTEC National in Environmental Sustainability
• Planning for the linear A level course
• Cast you eye on this! Planet Earth
• Managing the Independent Investigation in A level geography
• 21 Lessons learned from the new A levels in 2015
• Synopticity: How can we develop students’ capacity to make synoptic links?
• Plantation politics
• IRIS and geographical research

Contents

• Climate change and development in the Tonlé Sap region
• Starting to teach the carbon cycle
• The magic of magnotes
• The economic impact of meetings and business events in Britain
• Impact of the Secondary Geography Mark
• Making an impact in geography education
• Making an impact in the construction industry
• Point of view: our meat consumption and its global impact

Contents

• Chair’s notes
• Geography: crossing boundaries is no problem for the incredible subject
• Iceland – innovations in green energy production
• Eco-Schools
• A level Geography: the verdict
• Teaching extreme weather
• Inequalities in health care provision

Contents

• Chair’s notes
• Egypt and the Arab Spring Helen Hore 3
• New technology can enhance teaching in geography
• British school
• Setting up a GA local branch for sixth formers
• PGCE to NQT
• Analysis of change in A level grades requirements
• My favourite case study
• The growth of business tourism in Barcelona
• Who are the Post-16 and HE Phase Committee?

Contents

• Chairs notes
• Student voices: promoting A level geography
• Studying geography at university: is it for me?
• En route for Oxbridge
• Using GIS to investigate coastal management – for real or virtual fieldwork
• Statistical enquiry into water and wealth
• Piracy, supply shocks and energy security
• Globalisation of health: is the world feeling better?
• Who are the Post-16 and HE Phase Committee?

Contents

• The view from the Chair, Viv Pointon
• Sustainable living in the Middle East
• Foreign direct investment in tourism
• Cuba and superpowers
• Pre-U: a genuine alternative?
• Every picture tells a story! The Guardian Eyewitness series
• Managing hazards – dealing with risk

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