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What's on

Browse our in-person and online events, including our Monday night lectures, regional events and teacher CPD sessions. You can also watch a selection of our past talks.

 

 

 

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Exhibition

Skin maps: semi-permeable cartography

A new exhibition of collages and reworkings of historic maps from the RGS and other archives by Steph Morris.

Exhibition

Earth Photo: Waddesdon

Visit National Trust Waddesdon to see a stunning selection of shortlisted images from this year's Earth Photo competition.

£27.00
Non-Society event

The breakthrough experience

Join best-selling author and internationally acclaimed inner child expert Karen Ruimy for a powerful one-time-only live workshop.

Webinar

Exploring literacy through geography

In this one-hour session, Fiona Sheriff will discuss a range of literacy strategies which can be used to demystify geographical vocabulary alongside a range of texts which can be used to open worlds in the classroom.

Exhibition

Earth Photo exhibition

The Society is pleased to showcase the winners and best in class from our international competition dedicated to engaging with still and moving image makers sharing the prescient issues affecting the climate and life on our planet.

Webinar

Bringing the El Niño phenomenon to the classroom

Hear more about the ‘El Niño: A Phenomenon of Opportunities’ teaching resource, looking at how communities manage flooding associated with a major El Niño event.

Discussion

The Endurance Photographs – book launch

Join the Society for the launch of its new book ‘The Endurance Photographs’, with a presentation by book contributor and polar photography expert, Jean de Pomereu.

Webinar

How do natural hazards become disasters?

Join this webinar with the Disaster Risk Management Professional Practice Group to explore how and why natural hazards become disasters, and how hazard scenarios can help support disaster risk reduction.

Webinar

Digimap for Schools: a quick guide to fieldwork for KS3

Find out more about how the online GIS Digimap for Schools can be used to support fieldwork.

Webinar

Understanding and communicating risk through geospatial applications

Hear from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) geospatial team on the range of tools developed to support risk assessment and decision-making across the organisation.

Discussion

Forecasting surface water flooding in climate cange

This online panel, hosted by the RGS-IBG Climate Change Research Group, will hear from experts dicussing surface water flooding in a changing climate.

Lecture

Earth Photo 2026 award ceremony

Join us for a special evening at the Society celebrating the power of photography to tell the story of our planet at the Earth Photo awards ceremony 2026.