DCU lecturer appointed as President of Geographical Association

Dr Susan Pike, an Assistant Professor in Geography Education at the DCU Institute of Education, has become President of the Geographical Association. Susan was invited to take on this role as recognition for her work in DCU and across Ireland and the UK for Geography Education. Her work will include leading the organisation of the Association’s annual conference in 2021, which is one of the largest education conferences in the UK.

The Geographical Association is vibrant and diverse subject association inspiring high-quality geographical teaching and learning. The GA has over a century of innovation behind it and an unrivalled understanding of geography teaching across 60 countries. The GA supports geography education by providing a specialist community of practice for teachers to share ideas with one another; through journals, publications, training courses, Annual Conference, Quality Marks, teaching resources, social media activity and a variety of network activities. The GA also represents the views of geography teachers and demonstrates the value of geographical education more widely, for example through the Manifesto for geography. They also advocate for geography teachers with government and others.

Susan is a member of the GA's Early Years and Primary Phase Committee and also of the Geography Education Research Collective (GEReCo); she presents annually at the GA Conference, Geography Teacher Educators’ Conference and the Charney Manor Primary Geography Conference. She sits on the editorial board of the journal of International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (IRGEE). As a GA Geography Primary Champion, she has maintained a network of more than 100 teachers and students and uses this to actively promote the DCU and the GA. Susan has contributed to the GA’s Leading Primary Geography and is the author of Learning Primary Geography: Ideas and Inspirations from Practice. In 2016 she also received the Geographical Association Award for Excellence.

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