May 2000 – March 2005
Worldaware
Assistant Director (Education) and Director from 1 December 2002
Worldaware has a track record of highly successful publications from the national curriculum era of the early-nineties. These include learning resources on Castries, St Lucia and Tocuaro, a Mexican village which are available from the Geographical Association at www.geographyshop.org.uk [opens in new window]
Catalogues
Worldaware operated a resource centre selling these, and many other items, through a regular catalogue sent to schools and online.
A series of sixth-from conferences called Constructive dialogue in globalisation issues included a wide range of companies, organisations and government ministers.
A key feature of this work was supporting professional development with sessions on global issues for teachers and on university courses.
Global Eye
The flagship was the Global Eye magazine, funded by DFID, and the website was widely regarded and won a Gold Award from The Geographical Association.
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The Global Eye website continued for a while edited by Simon Scoones with financial support from the Royal Geographical Society. It remains online at www.globaleye.org.uk [opens in new window]
Two projects produced secondary school publications written by Simon Scoones.
Whose right to water? was a collaboration with Thames Water
and Global Health Matters with Pfizer.
Worldaware no longer exists as a separate charity. It ceased trading and all of its obligations were met at liquidation in March 2005.
In addition to the education work, Worldaware ran a Business Awards scheme in recognition of the ways in which business and other organisations contribute in a responsible way to the development of poorer countries. Read more on the Worldaware Business Awards >
