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The Society runs a variety of events for students including careers events, lectures and study days.

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Our full range of events will enrich your knowledge of the world's people, places and environments.

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Choosing the right university and geography course - March

This session aims to support students in making the right choices for them when choosing both a university and a geography course.

Lecture theatre with students sitting in staggered rows of seats. The rows are faced towards a stage with someone giving a presentation in front of a screen.

Choosing the right university and geography course - May

This session aims to support students in making the right choices for them when choosing both a university and a geography course.

Physical geography atlas of the invisable.

School Member Lecture: the power of maps

School and Student Members are invited to come along to this lecture to hear from a leading academic on a topic that is curriculum relevant. This event is being held exclusively for the Society's School and Student Members only.

Yellow and green train on tracks.

Decarbonising transport: considering people and place

Sarah will outline the work that is taking place to accelerate the decarbonisation of transport and consider how considerations of people and place intersect with delivery of greener transport.

Portrait photograph of Tom Heap in a forest against foreground of flowers and wild grass.

Land smart

How can we fit people, food, nature, houses, carbon, trees, solar panels, roads, flood-waters and warehouses on one small island? Land smart for the latest on the race for space on earth.

Black and white photograph of melting sea ice as seen from above.

Warmth from below: where ice and ocean meet

As Arctic sea ice melts away, the ocean below is absorbing six times more solar radiation. This lecture will highlight the changing ocean processes melting ice and implications for our weather and climate.

African rainforest with sea and mountains in background.

The changing rainforests

A journey through the Congo Basin, reflecting on the future of its iconic wildlife and trees and showing how the African forests are a key part of the climate change puzzle.

White fluffy clouds in a dark blue almost black sky.

Our changing climate: why does 1°C matter?

Those who downplay the risks of climate change sometimes suggest that global warming is ‘just’ an increase of 1°C so the consequences cannot be large. This talk will highlight why 1°C matters.