News Lower Sixth Geography trip to Battersea Power Station 08.05.2025

On Wednesday, Lower Sixth geographers travelled to Battersea Power Station for a day of fieldwork, collecting data for their A Level and IB coursework. The power station is a wonderful example of ‘heritage rebranding’, and the girls were given the whole day to investigate the success of the redevelopment. A range of projects were carried out: one student investigated the role of globalisation in shaping the place; another sought to understand how age and gender might affect perceptions of the area; while a third measured the success of the redevelopment against the stated objectives of the project itself. The IB group examined whether the redevelopment had addressed social and spatial inequality in the area.

Methods included a large number of questionnaires (requiring a degree of resilience), emotional mapping, re-photography (comparing historic photos with the present day), and one girl even conducted a bird survey, a first for a Geography trip as far as we’re aware!