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🌍 A new Fieldwork Manifesto calls for rethinking how we teach in the field - centering ethics, inclusivity & collaboration. It challenges colonial legacies, responds to climate crises, and reimagines fieldwork in a digital age.
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🌍 New JGHE paper proposes “radical pragmatism” in climate education. Drawing on student experiences, it shows how teaching can balance climate anxiety, critical pedagogy & career pressures—linking climate solutions to everyday struggles without losing hope
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Interested in writing for JGHE? Check out this online session on the 25th March!
In collaboration with the Geography and Education Research Group, this session is designed to encourage new academics/postgraduates who have undertaken pedagogic research to publish.
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🎒 A new paper reflects on nearly 30 years of the Field Course Abroad. Student feedback highlights the value of place-based learning, teamwork & peer exchange—showing how international field courses enrich geographical understanding and socio-emotional learning
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Published this week in JGHE: "Future-facing assessment and feedback in geography: navigating an evolving landscape".
This is the paper from the 2025 JGHE Annual Lecture delivered by Professor Jennifer Hill at the RGS-IBG in Birmingham.
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📚 New study explores Challenge-Based Learning with students in Mexico. Findings show shifts from static views of geography to seeing it as interdisciplinary, socially relevant & action-oriented—fostering civic agency and interest in geographic careers
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💻New study develops vignette-based tools to assess pre-service geography teachers’ digital literacy & pedagogical skills. Tested with students across German universities, results highlight the need for critical, reflective engagement with digital geographies.
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🍽️🌍 New study explores how pre-service geography teachers in South Korea perceive food systems in the 2022 curriculum. Using Q methodology, perception types were identified, offering a framework and strategies for teaching food citizenship & sustainability.
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📚 New paper explores how Women of Colour in academia create counterspaces to navigate exclusion & microaggressions. Through storytelling & reflection, it shows how care and solidarity become acts of resistance and models for more equitable universities.
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Interested in writing for JGHE? Check out this online session on the 25th March!
In collaboration with the Geography and Education Research Group, this session is designed to encourage new academics/postgraduates who have undertaken pedagogic research to publish.
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🏙️ New paper reviews the first undergraduate financial geography course in mainland China. Blending theory with fieldwork in Beijing’s CBD & Financial Street, it highlights opportunities—and challenges—in localizing a globally shaped subfield.
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💸🌍 New paper rethinks teaching financial geography through reflective writing & lived experience. By centering emotion and everyday financial realities, students move from observers to participants..
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🌱🔥 New paper shows how researchers & an Indigenous conservation group co-developed approaches to address contamination—from urban gardens to Superfund sites & wildfire impacts—advancing Critical Physical Geography and community-centered environmental justice.
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🤖📚 New study examines how geography students use ChatGPT and what it means for assessment. With 80% using AI mainly for brainstorming, students favour project-based work, fieldwork & internships to support authenticity, creativity & integrity in learning.
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💼🌍 New study explores employers views on barriers to Work-Based Learning. While aware of financial and network gaps, many overlook cultural and equity issues highlighting the need for university employer partnerships and placements.
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🎒🌍 New paper reflects on making fieldwork in Human Geography & Spatial Planning more inclusive. Drawing on the All Aboard project, it shows that real change requires tackling deep-seated beliefs, emotional labour & systemic barriers.
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Interested in writing for JGHE? Check out this online session on the 25th March!
In collaboration with the Geography and Education Research Group, this session is designed to encourage new academics/postgraduates who have undertaken pedagogic research to publish.
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
🗺️📘 A new open-source initiative, The Guide to the Geographic Approach, updates the GIScience core curriculum. Phase 1 introduces modern GIS competencies, workflow-based modules & instructor resources.
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🌏🎒 New paper reflects on fieldwork using peer learning & experiential pedagogy to foster student scholarship. Findings show how place-based immersion builds understanding, solidarity & learning communities offering a framework and recommendations for fieldwork.
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JGHE reaches a watershed with the first issue of the 50th volume!
A special collection to mark the 50th anniversary is under review. There will also be a number of events to celebrate with a focus on the challenges and opportunities of the next 50 years.
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🤝🌍 New study assesses the long-term impacts of active learning in a Geography capstone. Surveying graduates over 15 years, it shows how community-based research builds workplace skills, civic engagement & real-world impact
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💭🌍 New review examines the role of emotions in geography higher education. Analyzing JGHE articles (2000–2025), it shows how teaching with and through emotions—in class, fieldwork & assessment—shapes learning, while also recognizing the emotional labour of geographers in the neoliberal academy.
🌏🎒 New paper reflects on a international field school between the US & SEAsia. Findings show how co-managed programs foster peer learning, capacity-building & more equitable partnerships—offering a model for addressing power imbalances in global field education.
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It was great to see so many of our JGHE Editorial Board Members online last week as part of our frequent meetings - lots of exciting plans for the journal and updates coming!