Head of Geography: King's Ely Prep

Vice President Education - Royal Geographical Society

President of the Geographical Association 2021-22

Over 34 years teaching Geography (plus ICT to ‘A’ level) Geographical Association Secondary Curriculum Leader 2008-11. Involved in around 500 CPD sessions in the UK & Europe. LivingGeography blog has had over 9.5 million page views, alongside other blogs & websites.

Since 2011, I've worked as a freelance author & geography consultant, completing work for Google, RGS-IBG, BBC Bitesize, Collins, EDINA, Ordnance Survey, ESRI UK, IB, British Red Cross, Costa, TUI, South Georgia Heritage Trust, Prince's Teaching Institute, Environment Agency & many others. I've written books for Badger, CUP, OUP, Hachette, Collins & GA, & children's books for Collins. Ran the Open University's VITAL service for 18 months. Involved in numerous ERASMUS+ projects including GeoCapabilities and current EMO-GI (2025-2028) Writer/subject reviewer for Oak National Primary and KS3 Geography.

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Chartered Geographer (Teacher) & consultant to the GA. Tivy Education Medallist & Hon. Fellowship from the RSGS.

Co-founder of the Geography Collective, creators of Mission:Explore - worked with National Geographic Education, RSPB, John Muir Trust, Thames Water etc. Mission:Explore was Hay Festival / National Trust Outdoors Book of the Year 2011, runner-up in Educational Writers' Award, & shortlisted for Innovation award in LotC 2012 & 2014.

RGS-IBG OS Award for 'excellence in secondary geography teaching' 2008.

4 writing projects won GA Silver awards. 'Fieldwork through Enquiry', co-written with John Widdowson won SAGT Book Award in 2013. 'Pole of Cold', written for a Felicity Aston expedition won SAGT non-book award. I've received 4 Innovative Geography Teaching awards from the RGS-IBG.

Textbooks written for OCR GCSE (Hodder), and series edited iGCSE (Collins) and AQA 'A' level (CUP) as well as Discover Geography international series (2026)

'Why Study Geography?' published in 2020.

Co-head of Education Outreach UK Polar Network 2022-23

OS #GetOutside Champion 2018-20

UCL/IOE Fawcett Fellow for 2022-23

Always up for further consultancy / writing - please get in touch.

Substack: LivingGeography - please subscribe.