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Use Geography: Webinars and Resources
Thinking about career options after university?
Want to find out what it’s like to put your geographical skills into practice?
In our Use geography webinar series, we spoke to geographers across a range of sectors, helping you to learn more about the many possibilities studying geography opens up for your career.
If you are an undergraduate...
RGS are running their popular career series for undergraduates on careers again.
Past events and resources can be found here: Use geography: webinars and resources - RGS.
The first of this year’s events will be on career opportunities linked to fieldwork and expeditions; the next one teaching; and then the civil service.
More to follow on sustainability, environmental consultancy, third sector, starting your own business, international development ….. Please sign up: Upcoming events - RGS.
New LinkedIn Hub!
Join the Geography Undergraduate Career Hub & Opportunities Group to help students and recent graduates advance their geography careers!
Members will receive weekly posts with practical advice on LinkedIn, career pathways, internships, and interview preparation, along with interactive discussions to build community. Guest blogs from graduates and experts will provide valuable insights!
Richard Riggs
Principal Planning Officer - Calderdale Council -
MSc Urban and Regional Planning (2019-2020)
Graduate Michelle Howson
Planning Project Manager, Lightrock Power
Michelle gives advice for students who are deciding what to do after their degree.
Aamir Khan
Project Officer at Science Based Targets Initiative
Geography BSc
Aamir discusses how his degree and voluntary work at Sheffield led to his current role setting sustainability targets for the construction industry.
Samantha Skinner
Freelance Landscape Ecologist
Placement at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust
BSc Environmental Science
Samantha's placement at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has helped her develop her environmental science skills, both geographical and biological.
Tom Humphries
Placement at Eden Rivers Trust
BSc Geography with Employment Experience
I gained confidence in speaking to a variety of stakeholders, from contractors to investors
Tom Humphries' placement with Eden Rivers Trust has given him a wide range of experience in the third sector.
If you want to combine your interest in the environment with business and leadership, sustainability consulting could be for you
As a sustainability consultant, you'll help companies and businesses become more socially and environmentally responsible in how they operate. You'll need to create sustainable solutions for the often-conflicting needs of people, the environment, development and successful business.
Work will involve evaluating the impact a company is having on the environment (for example, their carbon footprint) and then minimising that impact or planning the use of limited resources. You may be involved in all or some stages of a project from planning and building, through to remediation, restoration and reuse of land and property, for example.
Who is this for?
For Developers & Architects
For Communities
For Planning Officials
What is it?
The updated 2018 National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) retains a presumption in favour of sustainable development’. However, there is no clear-cut, NPPF-based assessment criteria to consider a site or project’s sustainable development credentials, making current assessment processes both tricky and subjective.
Chaired by former planning minister, Nick Raynsford, the Sustainable Development Commission was set up to address this recognised issue with our planning system. Made up of a balanced cross-section of industry professionals, the Commission has debated the issues and found solutions, culminating in the creation of the Sustainable Development Scorecard.
You can watch a video with more detail on the Commission and background to the Scorecard here: https://vimeo.com/244731848