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Lauren Hammond
@drlaurenhammond.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Researching in, and across, geography education, children’s geographies, children’s citizenship and geographies of education.
Call for chapters: Geography and Education: Concepts for re-imagining research, policy and practice! Full details here www.gereco.org/2025/11/17/c... and abstracts due 30/01/2026
Call for chapters: Geography and Education: Concepts for re-imagining research, policy and practice – GEReCo UK IGU-CGE
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November 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Please feel very welcome to join this Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group event, before the RGS (with IBG) annual conference on Tuesday 26th August 2025!
August 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Great to see that this special edition of the Journal of Curriculum Studies, edited by CPA's Professor Zongyi Deng and @arthurjchapman.bsky.social in collaboration with @kossnetwork.bsky.social colleagues is now 'live', open access, and online. www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcus20/5... 1/3
July 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Winners announced! Congratulations to the 2025 GEReCo Masters Dissertation Award winner & highly commended 🥳🙌 www.gereco.org/2025/06/09/w...
Winners announced! 2025 GEReCo Masters Dissertation Award – GEReCo UK IGU-CGE
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June 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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I'm hosting a free online workshop series on Anti-Racism and Reparations in Education.

Please join us!
10am UK time: June 11, June 18 and July 2.

Details and registration: baice.ac.uk/baice-presid...

Please help spread the word to academic/education folx! 🙌🏾
BAICE Presidential Workshop Series
Anti-Racism and Reparations: perspectives from Comparative and International Education
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May 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Hurrah! so many great contributions from brilliant languages colleagues, brought together by @all4languages.bsky.social We hope it's a useful resource for anyone mentoring ML teachers and would love to see interested colleagues on the 19th! bit.ly/Ment-Lang-Teachers25 #MFLBluesky
May 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Super pleased to have had this article published in Children's Geographies! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP

Deadline: 9 June

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May 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Interested in geography education in schools / HE / alternative education? Please be encouraged to put in a paper or come along to this ScotGEESE event in Edinburgh in June! 🌍🌳🏞️🌃
We are excited to invite you to the #ScotGEESE Annual Meeting on 27 June 2025 hosted at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. The Theme is 'GEES, Identities, and Education'. For more information and to sign up, please see our website
ScotGEESE Annual Meeting 2025: ‘GEES, Identities, and Education’
Photo by Duyet Le on Unsplash This is your invitation to join us at Dynamic Earth – the Edinburgh Science Centre and Planetarium on June 27, 2025 to share and learn about geography, earth, an…
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May 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Join us next week (Friday, May 9, 1-230pm) for an online #ScotGEESE seminar about the Scottish geography curriculum review, presented by
@lynnesrob.bsky.social Joining information here: scotgeese.wordpress.com/events/
April 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Congratulations 2 CPA's @gracehealy.bsky.social & @drlaurenhammond.bsky.social & Profs Gabriel Bladh & Sirpa Tani on this open access @kossnetwork.bsky.social paper on the powers, possibilities & constraints of geography curricula in England, Finland & Sweden! 2/2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Delighted 2C this @ioe.bsky.social & @kossnetwork.bsky.social open access special edition of the Journal of Curriculum Studies taking shape. So far we've papers looking @ religious education, history & geography in comparative perspective in England, Sweden & Finland. Congratulations, colleagues! 1
With thanks to @hurlumhei.bsky.social for reminding us, here's a note announcing a new series of curriculum papers from CPA colleagues and our partners in the @kossnetwork.bsky.social from Helsinki and Karlstad that will be collated soon in a special edition of the Journal of Curriculum studies. 1/4
April 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The Reparative Futures of Education (Repair-Ed) team have launched a new online interactive archive: A People’s History of Schooling in Bristol 🏫

Explore how people have faced, and challenged, racial and classed injustices in education in Bristol ➡️ www.repair-ed.uk/stories/
March 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Do come along to the #AAG2025 geography education symposium today to reflect on geography in schools, universities and beyond! www.aag.org/events/2025-...
March 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Excited to be at #AAG2025 in Detroit. Do come along to the panels on the future of geography education and geography education research on Friday and join the conversation!
March 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Join us for this Geography Education Research Collective open seminar - next week, Wednesday 19/03/2025 🌍
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What’s up with the weather? Attribution science for teachers of geography – GEReCo UK IGU-CGE
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March 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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What a lovely moment to see "Storytelling towards solidarity: Creative, hopeful and inclusive climate change education" published as a special section in the first issue of Geographical Research for 2025 💚 🌍 ✊ 🌏 ⚖️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17455871...
February 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Lovely to be back at Charney Manor with the conference just about to begin #CharneyConf25
February 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Geography for Everyone?

Despite growing diversity at GCSE, at A level & uni #geography is one of the least diverse subjects.

The subject, & its institutions, are not serving all teachers nor all young people. Change is needed.

Read the full report ⤵️

geography.org.uk/geography-fo...
Geography for everyone? - Geographical Association
The GA has published the Geography for everyone? research report, which explores diversity and inclusion from a range of perspectives...
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February 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Please share details of this Masters dissertation award from the Geography Education Research Collective (GEReCo) with students! www.gereco.org/about/gereco...
GEReCo Masters Dissertation Award – GEReCo UK IGU-CGE
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February 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Free webinar for geographers! 💻🌍

Explore how we can prepare young people to take on future climate challenges in this webinar on 12 February at 4.15pm, organised by the Oxford Education Deanery.

Register now ➡️ bit.ly/GeogSust25
January 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Super interesting to collaborate, research and write with the wonderful @denisefreeman.bsky.social! In this paper, we focus on the relationships between geography education and citizenship by considering children's rights in, and to, the city in London www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
February 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social
Resources for change: raising awareness of the challenges of fixed term contracts in geography departments
By the States of Precarity Team:, Johanne Bruun, Rachel Colls, James Esson, Peter Forman, Anna Jackman,  Rachael Squire (corresponding author) “Because geography is about attention to difference an…
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January 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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🌍 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌍

'Geographical #education III: Changing #climate, changing geographies, changing geographical education?' by Steve Puttick

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January 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM