Invited Talk at Prince's Teaching Institute Summer School

I was an invited speaker at The Prince's Teaching Institute Geography Summer School, and went to Cambridge to give my talk this week. I was asked to speak for an hour to a group of about 50 teachers, and my talk was called: "Complexity, Uncertainty and Wonder: Physical Geography for Grown-ups of All Ages". You can see the slides from the talk here.

The Summer School was a very high-profile event; I was the only speaker on the programme whose name I didn't know! A reporter from The Telegraph came to my talk, and Michael Palin gave the after-dinner speech. There's more about the event on the PTI website:
http://www.princes-ti.org.uk/SummerSchool/2008/

My talk generated some interesting discussion with teachers about discrepancies between the A-level syllabus and our current scientific understanding of phenomena in Physical Geography. I am hoping to pursue some of the ideas further in collaboration with some of the teachers.