Details of research specific public engagements can be found on their respective pages on this website.

Jo was founder and director (2015 – 2024) of Geography Workshop productions ltd, a small-scale independent scholarly informed, creatively inspired production company. Between 2015 and 2024, Geography Workshop produced radio programmes, multi-media educational resources, on-line and in-person retreats,  public lectures and keynote addresses. It worked in collaboration with organisations and institutions (such as the BBC, Resonance FM), hosted bespoke workshops/field trips (Beeston and District Civic Society), partnered and collaborated with university departments (Universities of Exeter, Kings College), learned societies (the Royal Geographical Society’s Historical Geography Research Group), independent creatives (for example the Alternative School of Economics, Rabbit Road Institute, Walking Women Artists Network,  The Beestonian) and supported community organisations (London Urban Tree Festival, Black Curriculum, Arts Emergency, The Beestonian, Beeston and District Civic Society) to facilitate the sharing of stories and conversations with diverse public audiences to uplift and amplify the voices and geographical worlds of peoples and communities in the UK to create more capacious, sustainable ways of being that holds social, racial and environmental justice at its core.

In recognition of this work, in June 2022, Dr Joanne Norcup was awarded a life Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society for “outstanding work for Geography and the society with particular attention to themes of diversity and inclusion and uplifting historical geography”.

 

Detailed examples of these can be found on the Geography Workshop website which remains active as an online archive of work achieved.