Geography 2026: Capturing the Zeitgeist

Join us for The PTI Geography Symposium in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society and Geographical Association.

Our first-ever Geography Symposium is designed to empower and inspire teachers to be advocates for their subject inside and outside of the classroom for a curriculum that is challenging, innovative and enriching. The Symposium will encourage teachers to introduce all learners, regardless of their socio-economic background or academic ability, to challenging and enriching ideas, materials and activities, through curricular, extra-curricular and supra-curricular provision in their schools and colleges.

Through academic talks, workshops and sharing of best practice, the Symposium will celebrate Geography, enrich and develop your knowledge and love of the subject, and motivate teachers to consider how to inspire their leaners through engagement, enjoyment and empowerment. In celebrating Geography's interdisciplinarity, this event captures how Geography's cross-curricular core can ignite learners’ enthusiasm across a diverse cross-section of subjects at schools and colleges. This Symposium will capture, cultivate and celebrate the zeitgeist.

Themes

• Everyday Geographies
  Building students' capacity to appreciate how Geography feeds into their lived experiences inside and outside of the classroom informing their actions thinking globally and acting locally.
  
  
• Supra-curricular concept capture
  Geography needs to develop the confidence to assimilate concepts and case studies from adjacent disciplines where provenance hasn’t yet been established: 2025 is a dynamic period in global culture – what do we want to be considered ‘Geography’ in the 21st century?
  
  
• Fieldwork
  Making fieldwork accessible for all, across all Key Stages with the development of a ‘centralised safety net’.

Confirmed Speakers

• Dr Olivia Taylor, Assistant Professor at the University of Sussex, specializing in climate change and development policy.
• Professor Iain Stewart MBE, Professor of Geoscience Communication at the University of Plymouth, UNESCO Chair in ‘Geoscience and Society’ in 2018.
• Dr Jonathan Higham, Senior Lecturer of Geography and Planning at the University of Liverpool.
  More TBA

Prices

If you are a member of more than one of The PTI/RGS/GA your total discount will be £100 + VAT. If you are a GA member please use the discount code:

GA120

What's included?

• Refreshments throughout the day, lunch and a formal dinner on 9 July
• Bed and Breakfast accommodation on the night of the 9 July in South Kensington, London
• Lunch and refreshments on 10 July

Please note that by completing your booking for this event you are consenting for The PTI to share your name and email address with The Royal Geographical Society and The Geographical Association for the purposes of running this symposium.

*All prices are subject to VAT at 20%.