The gauntlet had been thrown late in 2023, and after the successful GlosGeog WWQ event in late February 2024 we knew which teams from would compete for the Worldwise Bristol v Gloucester Challenge. GlosGeog winners from Denmark Road High School…
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Harry West offers advice on use of ArcGIS Survey123 in the class/field
On Feb 8th 2024, Dr Harry West, Bristol GA committee member, and senior lecturer at UWE, provided insightful advice on how to engage students at both school and higher education settings with geolocated data. This was a twilight CPD event…
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“Who am I?” Workshop with Iram Sammer in support of anti-racism and decolonisation in the classroom
Monday 22nd January – evening workshop on Exploring Pedagogy, Antiracism and Decolonial Geography It was a great pleasure to host Iram Sammer at the University of Bristol’s School of Geographical Sciences for a networking and CPD event for local teachers.…
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Fairfield High School: First time(?) win in WWQ
Wow! What fun! Fairfield worthy Worldwise winners. “I was very excited to attend the WorldWise Quiz for the first time and to leave with the trophy was a bonus! We hope Fairfield will defend the title in the future. We…
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Summer ’23: Catching up on overdue reports
It has been a while since Bristol GA has posted reports. We saw a variety of events from Dec ’22 to March ’23: A lecture, teacher training, competition for sixth-formers, and exam preparation session – all extremely well received. See…
QEH host WWQ and take top two places
Many thanks to QEH School for hosting the GA and local teams for our first WorldWise Quiz since 2019. Teams from Cotham , St Mary Redcliffe and Temple and QEH were quizzed on their geographical knowledge by Dr. Tony Hoare,…
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Dr. Rachel James on Climate Adaptation in Africa
“Adapting to Climate Change in Africa” GA evening lecture, 18th October 2022 The second lecture in the Autumn Series of the 22-23 Bristol GA programme was given by Dr. Rachel James, who is a Senior Lecturer and Future Leader Fellow…
Overdue report on Covid lecture during 2021 lockdown.
GA lecture: Geographies of Covid: 7pm March 9th, 2021 On March 9th, we continued with live online delivery of material with an excellent talk by Prof. Rich Harris (School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol). The talk used elegant, interactive…
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GA lecture: Bloomin’ algae and ice sheets
GA lecture: Bloomin’ algae and ice sheets: 7pm March 2nd, 2021 It was a pleasure to host Dr. Chris Williamson from the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol at the first of two online lectures in 20-21; a talk…
Bristol GA 2020 AGM cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic
The Bristol Branch, affiliated to the Geographical Association, is a registered charity and expected to hold an AGM, where possible. This is traditionally held in October each year, but this was deemed to be not possible in 2020 because of…
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