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@drlaurenhammond

Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Researching in, and across, geography education, children’s geographies, children’s citizenship and geographies of education.

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Call for chapters: Geography and Education: Concepts for re-imagining research, policy and practice – GEReCo UK IGU-CGE

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

21.11.2025 10:25 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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!

18.08.2025 11:08 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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

23.07.2025 07:50 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Winners announced! 2025 GEReCo Masters Dissertation Award – GEReCo UK IGU-CGE

Winners announced! Congratulations to the 2025 GEReCo Masters Dissertation Award winner & highly commended 🥳🙌 www.gereco.org/2025/06/09/w...

09.06.2025 10:07 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Challenges for climate change and sustainability education in England: Reflections on teachers’ practices and priorities for policymakers Climate Change and Sustainability Education (CCSE), including school-based education, is widely understood as a vital response to the triple environmental crises of climate change, biodiversity...

Pleased to share some insights from recent research with @geowalshe.bsky.social @ucl-cccse.bsky.social exploring #curriculum #making and #climate #change and #sustainability #education with school #teachers in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 www.bera.ac.uk/blog/challen... @stir.ac.uk @scrcm.bsky.social

04.06.2025 07:03 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
BAICE Presidential Workshop Series Anti-Racism and Reparations: perspectives from Comparative and International Education

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! 🙌🏾

27.05.2025 21:43 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

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

19.05.2025 10:10 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Super pleased to have had this article published in Children's Geographies! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

16.05.2025 09:28 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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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

Please repost- thanks!

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

16.05.2025 09:03 👍 25 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 2

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! 🌍🌳🏞️🌃

09.05.2025 17:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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/

28.04.2025 15:25 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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....

15.04.2025 18:22 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

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

15.04.2025 18:37 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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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/

28.03.2025 10:48 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Do come along to the #AAG2025 geography education symposium today to reflect on geography in schools, universities and beyond! www.aag.org/events/2025-...

28.03.2025 11:19 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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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!

25.03.2025 15:20 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
What’s up with the weather? Attribution science for teachers of geography – GEReCo UK IGU-CGE

Join us for this Geography Education Research Collective open seminar - next week, Wednesday 19/03/2025 🌍
www.gereco.org/2025/02/18/w...

14.03.2025 20:13 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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...

24.02.2025 12:23 👍 29 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 3
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Lovely to be back at Charney Manor with the conference just about to begin #CharneyConf25

21.02.2025 15:21 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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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...

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...

06.02.2025 15:45 👍 7 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
New Progress Reports on Geographical Education – GEReCo UK IGU-CGE

Along with recent blogs from Prof. John Morganhttps://www.gereco.org/2025/01/30/we-are-all-gravesian/ and @steveputtick.bsky.social www.gereco.org/2025/01/29/n...

03.02.2025 12:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Live Global Voices in the Geography Classroom – GEReCo UK IGU-CGE

You can read about last year's award from last year's fantastic winner, Florence Smart, and runner-up, Martin Sutton, on GEReCo's blog:

www.gereco.org/2024/08/22/l...

www.gereco.org/2024/06/17/t...

03.02.2025 12:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
GEReCo Masters Dissertation Award – GEReCo UK IGU-CGE

Please share details of this Masters dissertation award from the Geography Education Research Collective (GEReCo) with students! www.gereco.org/about/gereco...

03.02.2025 12:57 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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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

31.01.2025 10:16 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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....

02.02.2025 15:06 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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…

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

13.01.2025 20:21 👍 63 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 9
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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

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social

12.01.2025 11:00 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Leading professional learning for sustainability in geography education through curriculum design | Emerald Insight 1

For my first 🦋 post, I thought I would share a recently published paper written with the wonderful Diane Swift: Leading professional learning for sustainability in geography education through curriculum, JPCC doi.org/10.1108/JPCC... @openuniversity.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

08.01.2025 09:39 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
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Numbers of geographers in Scottish education There has been long-lasting concern that geography in Scottish education was in poor health, but it is actually now experiencing a Scottish rejuvenation. To gain a comprehensive picture of geograph...

"There has been long-lasting concern that geography in Scottish education was in poor health, but it is actually now experiencing a Scottish rejuvenation."

Read more on the Scottish experience in paper below
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www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QHPY6...

07.01.2025 09:59 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Geographies of Children

Excited to have contributed to The Encyclopedia of Human Geography on the Geographies of Children with Sukanya Krishnamurthy link.springer.com/referencewor...

06.01.2025 17:25 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0