Detailed Description
Geography in an uncertain world: addressing the key challenges for geographical teaching and research
In this lecture Professor Smith will examine how the discipline of geography is positioned to address the key challenges of our time, from geopolitical reconfiguration, to technological transformation, to climate change.
Bio
Professor Joe Smith is Director of the RGS.
Prior to this he was Professor of Environment and Society and head of geography at the Open University. His academic work has focused on environmental communication, history, policy and politics. Joe has put together numerous seminars for environment specialists and senior media decision-makers, mostly from the BBC, since the mid-1990s.
Joe was co-founder of the Mediating Change group which supports and reflects upon new cultural work on climate change, and has included the commissioning of a body of artist’s residencies.
Joe holds a BA in Social and Political Sciences and a PhD in Geography from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is also a Director of Smith of Derby Ltd., a 160-year-old public clock making company that continues to design and make new commissions all over the world, and looks after 4500 sites across the UK.
School teachers are encouraged to bring A level students.
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