“…This situation is particularly acute when teachers with no previous background or experience in geography are required to teach the subject. Issues around specialist teaching in geography education are not new and have been widely reported in previous editions of IRGEE (for example, see Barrett-Hacking, 1996;Blankman, van der Schee, Volman, & Boogaard, 2014;Brooks, 2006;Çokadar, 2013;Corney, 1998;Lee, 2003;Martin, 2005Martin, , 2008Morley, 2012;Özden, 2008;Preston, 2014;Tan, Sharan, & Lee, 2005;Taylor, Nathan, & Coll, 2003;Walshe, 2007;Lane, 2014). This special edition attempts to change the conversation by focussing on two specific areas: the research methodologies used to understand geography teachers' identities and on what sustains geography teachers through their career.…”