On Tuesday 10^th May the 6^th Form Geographers and Economists of HMSG and Monmouth School were fortunate to receive a presentation from Dr Keith Halfacree, Senior Lecturer at Swansea University.  Globalisation and our international connections through a range of flows feature heavily not just in the AS and A2 texts but in our daily lives and media coverage, future education and employment.

Dr Halfacree delivered a thought-provoking 90 minute tour de force across a range of scales from Phoenician trading in 800 BC to Dickens, glasnost, world systems theories, the growth of China, brand bullies, the anti-capitalist movement and local food networks.  The lecture provided a range of content far beyond the textbook or core syllabus which contextualised Globalisation and provided an insight into what it is like to read for a degree in that it asked as many questions as it answered.

“The talk by Dr Halfacree was not only extremely relevant to our academic course, but also for us to learn about how the modern world functions and its forever changing state.  I personally found “the end of history” debate especially interesting, and whether this also meant the end of Geography as we know it.”  Ellie Y13 Geographer and Economist

Dr Halfacree is a widely published academic and the staff and students were all very grateful to him for sparing the time from his busy research and lecturing timetable to travel to Monmouth and share an alternative perspective on a critical cross-curricular topic.