Our Team
The Global Geography Academy was founded and is led by Dr Phil Porter and Dan Clark. Between them, Dan and Phil have over 50 years experience in the school and university sectors and, having both worked and lived in numerous locations around the world, they bring an extensive and rich experience to the classroom to truly bring geography teaching alive!
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Dr Phil Porter
Physical Geography Lead & Co-Founder.
Phil has worked in Higher Education since 1996, teaching geography and undertaking research into glaciers and climate, work that has taken him from the High Arctic to the High Himalaya to undertake fieldwork. Being a geographer through and through, Phil has a passion for the natural world and so it is no surprise that, like Dan, he is widely travelled, having visited over 40 countries and worked in the UK, Europe and Asia. His spare time pursuits link to his passion for the great outdoors and include mountain walking, long distance running, scuba diving and underwater photography and videography.
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Phil specialises in tuition for U.K. A Level, Cambridge International A Level and International Baccalaureate geography. With his extensive experience of the Higher Education and University sectors, he is ideally placed to run our 'next steps' sessions, designed to help you choose the right course at the right University, produce the best possible application statements and prepare you academically and mentally for success in your all-important first year of study and beyond.
Dan Clark
Human Geography Lead & Co-Founder
Dan has taught geography to all age groups for 20 years in a mix of private and state schools across the World. A seasoned globetrotter, Dan has lived in North America, Asia, Europe and Australasia and travelled extensively across 6 continents, visiting over 60 countries along the way.
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Dan leads on human geography, with a specialism in international development and demographics. He also leads our Key Stage 3 and GCSE programs of study.
Away from teaching, Dan spends his time with his partner and 2 boys. They spend a lot of time adventuring around the UK and abroad, and camping in a wide variety of locations and environments.
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Dan loves to offer interactive and engaging lessons and always has props to hand to help students engage fully, be it volcanic rocks or using honey to demonstrate the properties of lava! Dan believes in life long learning and has inspired many students to become intrepid geographers, with a global outlook and a passion for our natural and social world.
FAQs
Sustainability
At the Global geography Academy, we are passionate about environmental sustainability. As Geographers, we know only too well how dependent we are on healthy, functioning natural environmental systems, how rapidly our environment is changing and therefore how important it is to minimise our environmental impact.
Helping you study sustainably
This is why we have teamed up with Ecologi to offset carbon emissions associated with studying online with the Global Geography Academy. For every student registered with the Global Geography Academy, we will offset 200% of the carbon emissions associated with the manufacture and lifetime use of your tablet or laptop, plus emissions associated with internet and computer use during all tutoring sessions.
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Ecologi are the UK's leading all-in-one climate platform for businesses wishing to reduce their environmental impact and to date have funded the planting of over 70 million trees and prevented almost 3 million tonnes of CO2 from being released to the atmosphere.
Supporting Geography Educators
Bespoke Fieldwork Support
We understand that there are many pressures on schools and teachers when it comes to providing a rich diversity of fieldwork experience for students. This is why the Global Geography Academy can offer to work with you in the production of fieldwork resources.
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With our wealth of fieldwork teaching experience, we are ideally placed to provide support for teachers through resources such as live teaching sessions from the field to your classroom, bespoke fieldwork videos, and instructional workshops covering fieldwork teaching techniques.
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To discuss your needs and how we can support you and your students with fieldwork, please contact us.
Referral scheme & CPD for teachers
With decades of experience in the school and university sectors, at the Global Geography Academy, we know what works to maximise the effective delivery of geography teaching, to keep students engaged in the classroom and maximise retention of knowledge and skills.
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We are able to offer bespoke workshops for teachers where we can provide practical advice and guidance on proven classroom teaching methods in geography to truly bring the subject to life! We are also able to update teachers with the latest research findings in the subject area to bring currency to your teaching. Workshops would normally be delivered online, but can also be delivered in person at UK schools, depending on location.
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We are also delighted to launch our teacher referral scheme; we will provide a £20 voucher for each student referred by you who signs up for one of our programmes, as a gesture of thanks for helping us to promote high quality geography education
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To claim on our referral scheme and to discuss your individual workshop needs and our pricing options, please contact us.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Our mission at the Global Geography Academy is aligned with the values and CSR policies of many businesses and organisations across the globe. We are passionate about developing values around positive societal contribution and environmental stewardship among our students and are always looking for commercial partners to work with us in developing these attributes in students.
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If you would like to partner with the Global Geography Academy as part of your Corporate Social Responsibility plans we would love to hear from you and discuss how we can work with you to help empower young people to become passionate and positive about environmental and societal responsibility.
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To discuss how we might be able to work with you, do please contact us; we would be delighted to hear from you and arrange to meet!
