Dr Lauren Hammond is Departmental Lecturer in Geography Education at the University of Oxford and Honorary Lecturer at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. Lauren’s research is interdisciplinary and examines the relationships between children, geography and education. She is particularly interested in children’s geographies and children’s citizenship, and in considering how education can empower young people in their lives and futures. Lauren is also interested in geographies of education and education spaces and examining how in/justices are (re)produced in, and through, education, and the relationships between education, space and place. Lauren’s scholarship mainly lies in the field of Geography Education, and she is interested in how geography is constructed, taught, experienced and imagined from the early years through to postgraduate level, and in a range of spaces. Prior to working at the University of Oxford, Lauren was a secondary school geography teacher and head of department, before holding Lectureships at IOE and at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh.