North Staffs GA

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Why not join the North Staffs GA Branch
and meet fellow colleagues?

The local branch based in Stoke-on-Trent is run tirelessly by colleagues from schools; it is one of the 40 GA branches around the country (see the GA website for details of other branches). A strong local organisation has many advantages.

The lecture programme makes accessible academics, planners and other people from geographical related disciplines. Keeping up to date in your subject knowledge is as vital as keeping up to date in teaching and learning. Bring along your students, and remind yourself why geography became your subject.

Branch Programme for 2009 - 2010.

Full programme for the year (includes film, lectures, quiz and fieldwork visit) Download here

Next lectures:

25 years of HIV / AIDS: current situation and responses in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK.

Professor Hazel Barratt, Coventry University.

10th February 2010 7.30pm, Staffordshire University, Leek Road site.
Full details and flyer here.

Sustainable Youlgreave

How a Peak District village is encouraging sustainability in a local way.This talk will be an ideal case study for what is becoming an important issue on how people can live more sustainably in a globalised world. John Youatt, chairperson Sustainable Youlgrave www.sustainableyoulgrave.org/ 10th March 2010, 7.30 (following brief AGM at 7.15) Full details and flyer here

World Wise Quiz for Students 18th November 2009
Nine teams from seven schools from Staffordshire and Stoke took part in this quiz. Congratulations to the worthy winners Newcastle School; second St Peter's High School and 3rd Wolstanton High School.

All meetings are at 7.30pm on Wednesday evenings at Staffordshire University, Leek Road site in Stoke, in room LT4 Ashley Building. Where possible the lecture notes will be made available here BUT it is not as good as the real thing! Suggestions for future lectures to Bob Jones please.

Picture gallery from the 2008 fieldtrip to Hamps and Manifold here.

Apply to join the North Staffs branch - application form here!

For further details about the branch please contact the secretary, Bob Jones, 01785 815521

Previous lectures

Charles Spring, Senior Lecturer in Sports Management, University of Derby. The Geography of Sport: the Social Impacts of Stadia Moves.

Professor Irene Hardhill from Nottingham Trent University Economic and Social Change in large MEDC urban areas (with reference to Nottingham). Irene's presentation is here Reinventing the city: from Industrial to post Industrial

Contrasting African geographies. Climbing Kilmanjaro - Rev. Michael Metcalf, St. Paul's Church, Stafford and Ugandan Perspectives on Citizenship and Development, Bob Jones, Alleynes High School

Squatter Settlements in Peru: Slums of Hope or Despair?
(John Old Memorial lecture) Professor Bill Chambers, Liverpool Hope University, GA President

Mapping with GIS - when seeing should not always mean believing

by Oliver Tomlinson, Senior Lecturer in Geographical Sciences, Derby University.

PowerPoint presentation part 1 and part 2

Climatic Change and Renewable Energy given by Garth Ratcliffe, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Garth has kindly made the PowerPoint presentation on renewable energy available

DISTRIBUTION & IMPACT OF UK AGEING POPULATION
Dr Linda Stanier - Derby University Download the ppt presentation here. It is a very large file 33 Mb but worth it. NOT A GOOD IDEA OVER A PHONE LINE

SLN Geography extends our warm congratulations to Sister Mary Henry

Sister (President of the N Staffs Branch of the GA) with her Certificate of Outstanding Service presented by President Jeremy Krause. Allan Dodd (Chair of the N Staffs Branch far left), Bob Jones (Sec of N Staffs Branch) . Well deserved.

This page last updated 10 February 2010