Matt Finn
@MFGeog
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My @ExeterGeography course/teaching tweets. See @MattMattFinn for all my other tweets.
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Joined September 2014
Welcome! Here you'll find tweets related to the @ExeterGeography courses I'm involved in @UniofExeter. Feel free to tweet questions & links.
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My op-ed “Should India lower its voting age?” https://t.co/2uBDfh8x8m My thoughts on lowering of voting age published in the @IndianExpress
indianexpress.com
Globally, several countries, including Germany, Austria, Malta, Estonia, Argentina, Nicaragua, have lowered their voting age from 18 to 16 years. Since many children are employed at 16 years in...
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'The UK in 2024 demonstrates to the world what living with high inequality means in a once affluent country.' From declining heights to more children going hungry, Prof @dannydorling explains how kids are becoming poorer in the UK – more so than in other countries ➡️
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Report available here:
unicef.org
Innocenti Report Card 18: In a time of general prosperity, more than 69 million children live in poverty in some of the world’s richest countries
Am I the only one surprised by how little debate there has been in the election campaign about our worsening child poverty crisis?! Unicef stats on the UK's rising levels of poverty - the most extreme among 39 countries - are incredibly shocking.
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"The rise of global education" with @ExeterGeography @UoExeterCGES @thecuriousgeog, @mattmattfinn received the Geographical Association’s Highly Commended Publishers Award. https://t.co/2Ws2PnIlxA
timeforgeography.co.uk
Education equips individuals with the knowledge to understand the diverse landscapes, cultures and challenges of our planet. Empowering us to transform our lives, uplift communities, and shape the...
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Devastating @UNICEF league table on changes in child poverty over 7+ years up to 2021: UK in the bottom spot Report: https://t.co/cbMIKYpSZ4
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The number of children reported to have been killed in Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019 😥 #PleaseStop #PeaceForAll
https://t.co/vR340I08Tk
savethechildren.org.uk
Children killed in Gaza in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019.
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Huge thanks to all of our contributors - Viewpoints piece out today w/@MFGeog
https://t.co/2xKIbNXdZn
tandfonline.com
Published in Children's Geographies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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I really enjoyed my conversation with Matt. You can read it in full here:
tandfonline.com
Published in Geography (Vol. 108, No. 1, 2023)
Check out this interview with @DipoFaloyin, author of Africa Is Not A Country in @The_GA's journal Geography. FREE to access until April (thx @WeAreTandF) - so do share and download. Hopefully a useful resource for #geographyteacher community! https://t.co/CsHB8tpzRn
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Check out this interview with @DipoFaloyin, author of Africa Is Not A Country in @The_GA's journal Geography. FREE to access until April (thx @WeAreTandF) - so do share and download. Hopefully a useful resource for #geographyteacher community! https://t.co/CsHB8tpzRn
tandfonline.com
Published in Geography (Vol. 108, No. 1, 2023)
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A couple of #GEO1106 related stories... COP27: Without Greta, activists make waves at climate summit https://t.co/TCGeU4qKBE As the 8 billionth child is born, who were 5th, 6th and 7th? https://t.co/txXX6mC149
bbc.co.uk
The world is still growing, but not as fast as when the six- and seven-billionth babies were born.
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Are we really prisoners of geography? An alternative view to Tim Marshall’s book. #geographyteacher
theguardian.com
The long read: A wave of bestselling authors claim that global affairs are still ultimately governed by the immutable facts of geography – mountains, oceans, rivers, resources. But the world has...
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Hi #geographyteacher #geogchat folk! 👋 What questions would you like to ask Dipo Faloyin about his book - 'Africa is not a country'? 🌍📖 I'm going to be doing an email interview soon for @The_GA journal Geography. Add your questions below 👇 https://t.co/jI6j03VsV9
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Lots of discussion about waste, the waste and resources industry - reduce/reuse/recycling, the relationship between infrastructures and behaviour and more and lots to keep thinking about. One student even called the visit 'a once in a lifetime opportunity'!
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Huge thanks to Jade, Jane, Max at MVV and Lucy and Bobby from DCC Waste Education team. Amazing to see the 🔥 today.
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Second visit to #mvv Devonport Energy from Waste Combined Heat and Power Facility in Plymouth with @ExeterGeography students for #GEO2135 thinking about the in/visible spaces of modern life and the people and infrastructures that make them work.
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