Coffee & Geography

Special #ClimateAmbassdors mini-series! Learn more about the scheme and get to know each of the England regional teams. Joining Kit Marie from the London hub is Annie Risner. Being connected to the sea, keeping fit using aerial hoops, working with Early Years settings and more! Annie was born in London and grew up in Kent, where she spent most of her childhood in the sea, the woods or her garden....

Special #ClimateAmbassdors mini-series! Learn more about the scheme and get to know each of the England regional teams. Joining Kit Marie from the East Midlands hub is Matilda Crane. Drinking some Dragonfly Tea, they chat about faith and the environment, Jane Austin, and more! Matilda is the Climate Ambassadors East Midlands Regional Hub Manager. She is a tree-hugging, bird-loving, slightly bonker...

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Special #ClimateAmbassdors mini-series! Learn more about the scheme and get to know each of the England regional teams. Joining Kit Marie from the Northwest hub is Cormac Lawler. They sip a Yorkshire Tea and chat about how Irish life changed during the ‘Celtic Tiger’, staring into ponds, amongst other things! Cormac is the Climate Ambassadors Northwest Regional Hub Manager. He has had a pretty div...

Kit Marie and Will Duffy sit down and discuss science & religion, free-diving, snorkeling, veggie-free diets, amongst other things! Will is a pastor in a small town in Colorado* and the creator of 'The Final Experiment', a venture to bring together prominent #FlatEarth touters and their detractors to #Antarctica. You can find out more by visiting https://www.the-final-experiment.com/ and https...

Kit Marie and Aidah Nakku enjoy a hot chocolate, and chat about climate justice for women and girls in the Global South, logistical language barriers, dancing ears and more! Aidah Nakku is a climate and gender Justice activist from Kampala Uganda. She is the founder of Hold Her Hand Initiative, an Initiative that focuses on empowering women and girls in areas affected by climate change disasters....

Kit Marie and Dr Adam Brett with some Yorkshire Tea chat about hetero- and cis-normativity in education spaces, spatial representation, cat puns, and more! Adam is a former secondary school teacher and leader, and now researcher and lecturer at the University of Derby. He is the co-founder of Pride & Progress which works to support schools to be LGBT+ inclusive. Most of Adam's research is focu...

Kit Marie and Andy Funnell sip some fresh orange dilutin’ juice, and chat about learning from who you meet to cover blind spots, working in partnership with young people, Bluey and more! Andy is a Geography Teacher and head of department in Northern Island. A ‘GIS convert’ and an unexpected blend of Cheshire, Yorkshire, Nottingham, Qatar, Slovakia and Northern Ireland.  Some links to things m...

Kit Marie and Katie Hall enjoy some Yorkshire Tea and chat about accents, using GIS to enhance access to nature, archaeology, table-top role play games, and more! Katie rambled their way into a career with GIS via archaeology and geography teaching! Katie stills look at their feet when they are out field walking as grubbing in the dirt turns out to be a hard habit to break. But mostly these days K...

Kit Marie is joined by previous guest Hermione Miao, for a special mash-up between the 'Coffee & Geography' and 'Mapping Inspirational Women' podcasts! You can *watch* this discussion between Hermione and Kit Marie over on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm9xVNjsHd4 'Mapping Inspirational Women' is a project to discover inspirational women and their collate their stories or work in bl...

Kit Marie and Miriam Lancewood grab some thyme to brew from outside and chat about being ‘place-centred’ rather than ‘time-centred’, travelling and living in the wild with husband Peter, busking, and more! Miriam Lancewood lived for 7 years with her husband Peter in the wilderness of New Zealand. They roamed around like nomads, cooked on a fire, slept in a tent, and Miriam learned to hunt with bow...

Kit Marie and Regan Mudhar chat about the power of music to evoke emotion, diversity and inclusion initiatives at the Royal Meteorological Society, PhD research into how Arctic warming is changing weather patterns and more! After doing an MSci in physics with astrophysics in Bristol, Regan worked in finance for a couple of years. But they returned to academia in 2021, looking at the so-called “str...

It's the 100th episode (well, technically, the 100th upload!) of the Coffee & Geography podcast! We've been on an incredible journey, with Kit Marie speaking to over 100 people from over 22 countries.  The weekend of the 100th release coincided with the weekend after the Geographical Association Annual Conference 2024, so Kit Marie took the opportunity to grab as many previous podcast gue...

Kit Marie and Ayesha Tandon brew up a hot drink and chat about the social factors that impact migration, culture and identity through food, early careers and diverse voices in science, climate journalism, being sporty in a sporty family, and more! Science journalist at Carbon Brief. Ayesha is the 3rd generation of woman to study physics in her family. But the first person in 3 generations not to g...

Kit Marie and Dave Wynn have a late night brew and chat about climate advocacy, admiration for 2000AD comics, learning the harp, stereophotography, and more! A/S/L Dave? Old, neutered, lost. An old joke, but getting more accurate by the year. Otherwise, climate advocate, stereo-photographer, and harpist, and hopes he is small part of the solution to the Climate Emergency. CW: We explore themes of...

Kit Marie is joined by Sam and Simon Fox to chat about science communication, school trips, Essex origins, the amazing Youth STEMM Award, and more! Dr Samantha Fox is a scientist and social entrepreneur. She spent many years hanging out with plants at The John Innes Centre, an independent, international centre of excellence in plant science, genetics and microbiology. These days she spends most of...

‘Espresso’ & Geography is a podcast short where Kit Marie and special guests talk current geographical affairs for a maximum of 15 minutes.  This shot of geography-laden caffeine welcomes Nona, Louise and Hope in reflecting on the first 'Gathering' of the Decolonising Geography collective that took place in March 2024 at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham, London. Links: - Decoloni...

Kit Marie and Catherine Walker time their Ozzie coffee with a chat about flight shame, UK high-school subject options, a gap-year in Chile, researching climate change from the perspective young people from migrant families, and more! Known as Catherine by some, Cate to others but to everyone, a deep thinker with a passion for exploring, analysing, reading and writing about how young people relate...

Kit Marie and Andrew Caine enjoy a chat over enthusing young people and non-scientists about marine biology, being a self-published author, being a northerner from the south, rummaging through Victorian rubbish dumps, and more! Andrew is a teacher, a self-professed idiot and likes a laugh! He is an author of three books to help people without a scientific background understand the amazing life ben...

Kit Marie and Shabnam Anam sip a coffee and chat about lived experiences between rural and urbam communities, anti-racist education, Sunderland, the hesitation of getting tattoos, and more! Shabnam is an Antiracist Educator; passionate about authenticity, equality and empowerment. She has been in Primary Education for over 20 years, serving diverse communities as a class teacher, SENDCo, head teac...

‘Espresso’ & Geography is a podcast short where Kit Marie and special guests talk current geographical affairs for a maximum of 15 minutes.  This shot of geography-laden caffeine is a break-time chat at the Geography Teachers Educators Conference, that took place at the end of January 2024 in York. Discussed are the importance of such conferences; what they actually do for students in the...

Kit Marie records their chat while undergoing electrolysis treatment from Abigail Best! All the while they chat about electrolysis treatment, the geography in voice and language, access to treatment on the NHS, and more! Abigail is a fully licenced electrolysist with over 30 years’ experience and offers permanent hair removal to everyone including transgender clients, pre-GRS electrolysis, polycys...

Kit Marie and Ilan Kelman take a deep dive into the human element of progress (or not) in tackling and contributing towards disasters, the challenges of catering for diverse values and voice, photography, and more! Ilan is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking dis...

Kit Marie and James Riding sip a Pink Lane Coffee Americano and chat about exploring perceptions through art in a post-conflict context; examples of 'counter-maps'; imaginary towns;, amongst other things! James is Newcastle University Academic Track Fellow - a cultural geographer who uses creative methods. He works mainly in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and has been making a new atlas of the country...

Kit Marie and a mystery guest kick off Season 4 of Coffee & Geography, talking about Artificial Intelligence, how it is impacting education, and its potential for teaching and learning in Geography. Some links to things mentioned in the chat: -Pi AI (https://pi.ai/talk)  -ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/) -Grammarly (https://app.grammarly.com/) -Kate Stocking's blog on ChatGPT in Geograp...