Category: Teaching

Scotland Model Arctic Council 2

I’ve just returned from Glasgow, where I ran the second Scotland Model Arctic Council (SCOTMAC) at the Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU).  A tremendous experience—easily one of the most intense and rewarding of the two-dozen-plus MACs that I’ve run, with some of the most engaged, energetic and committed student …

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Norwich Model Arctic Council for Schools 7

This weekend, I ran my seventh Norwich Model Arctic Council (NORMAC) for schools, still so far as I know the world’s only stand-alone Model Arctic Council programme for secondary-school pupils.  NORMAC 7 involved 20 pupils from two schools and, like at WYCOMAC 3 and MAC Bilbao 5 this year, delegates grappled with the issue of …

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Presentation at 25th Arctic Science Summit Week

This past Tuesday, I took part in a session on ‘Educational innovation and pedagogy for the Anthropocene Arctic’ at the 25th Arctic Science Summit Week in Vienna, Austria, organised by the International Arctic Science Committee, the Austrian Polar Research Institute and the University of Vienna.  Together with my colleague Dr Sennan Mattar from the Mary Robinson …

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Model Arctic Council Bilbao 5

I always look forward to returning each January to the wonderful city of Bilbao, Spain, to run Model Arctic Council Bilbao (MAC Bilbao) at Colegio Ayalde—now in its fifth year.  Always my most ‘international’ conference, MAC Bilbao 5 took place last weekend, and it involved 28 secondary-school pupils from ten schools in France, Hungary, the …

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Wycombe Model Arctic Council 3

It was a delight to return to Wycombe Abbey last week to run the third Wycombe Model Arctic Council (WYCOMAC) alongside the school’s annual Model United Nations (MUN) conference.  WYCOMAC 3 was a small but intense simulation involving 17 pupils from four secondary schools tackling one of the thorniest diplomatic questions that I have yet …

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