The most recent GA session (11th November 2015) ‘Congo’s Curse: Unearthing the link between Natural Resources and Violent Conflict‘ was both informative and thought-provoking, leaving the audience enlightened about the motivations of armed groups, the causes of the resource conflict…
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Calum James, St. Mary Redcliffe, on first session in GA Autumn programme
Calum James (St. Mary Redcliffe and Temple School) reports. The most recent GA session was enlightening, not only because of the lecture by Alan Terry on ‘Improving the quality of water resources in Uganda’, but also because of the information…
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Guy Toye, Dean Close School, reports on Spring Conference ‘Eco- and community-based tourism’
Two lectures were presented at the Bristol GA ‘Spring Conference’ that provided useful facts with sources related to tourism to use as our case studies in our summer AS exams. Dr. Jenny Hill from the University of West of England…
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Maya Willis-Fry (Weston College) reflects on ‘Cascading Risks’ talk
Maya Willis-Fry (Weston College) reports: Dr Katsu Goda gave an insightful lecture at the University of Bristol on Tuesday 11th November. Members of the audience were typically A-Level geography students from schools all around Bristol and North Somerset. The content…
Report from St. Mary Redcliffe and Temple School on ‘Population issues in China’
by Nathan Griffin, Year 12 St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, reporting on lecture by Dr. Simon Arlidge, UWE. The lecture on the 18th of September 2014 was located at the Peel lecture theatre at the University of Bristol. The…
Students from Bristol, Trowbridge Wotton-under-Edge and Weston prepare for exams with Mark Jones (UWE)
Hepple Lecture Theatre in Geographical Sciences, Univ. of Bristol, buzzing on the 26th March 2014 with >80 students engaged in geography exam preparation, led by Mark Jones and team of PGCE facilitators from UWE. See Resources for copy of talk,…
Review of Spring Conference 2014 by Rebecca Williams, Red Maid’s School
‘Modelling Urban Transport’ by George Lunt, AECOM (Associate Director, Bristol Office) ‘Collective Mobility’ by Prof Graham Parkhurst (UWE, Centre for Transport Studies) ‘Student Start-ups and Sustainable Transport’ by Sam Harris (Basecamp, University of Bristol and pedalpowertransport) ‘Urban transport and Sustrans’…
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Robert Mosley, student at Monmouth School, reviews GA talk on ethnic migration
On the 12th of November the sixth form geographers at Monmouth attended a talk given by Dr Richard Harris in Bristol University. This was a greatly anticipated talk and it was aimed at people studying A-level geography along with those…
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Sophie Crane and Olivia Colbeck, Redland High School, review Oct 9th GA talk
Last week, we had the privilege of listening to a lecture called ‘Rich people, poor people and environmental concern’ by Dr Malcolm Fairbrother. The talk was extremely thought provoking and absorbing, and I’m sure I can speak on behalf of…
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Report: “Why do rivers flood?” Dr. Chris Parker UWE 19th Sep 2013
Not shy of presenting a few equations to give a feel for lectures at University level, Dr. Chris Parker (UWE) delivered a clear and well-illustrated talk on the factors associated with flooding in river catchments. Chris encouraged the audience of…
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