All Outputs (10)

Improving the student experience through feedforward dialogic assessment (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Assessment exercises a major influence on student learning and achievement (Boud 2007). Yet QAA subject reviews identify assessment practices as one of the weakest features of Higher Education (Rust et al. 2005). In terms of the student learning expe... Read More about Improving the student experience through feedforward dialogic assessment.

Re-framing the geography dissertation: A consideration of alternative, innovative and creative approaches (2016)
Book Chapter

This paper reviews the opportunities and challenges for re-framing the purpose, process, product and assessment of final year geography dissertations. It argues that the academic centralities of critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, effective comm... Read More about Re-framing the geography dissertation: A consideration of alternative, innovative and creative approaches.

Evaluating undergraduate research conferences as vehicles for novice researchers and transferable skills development (2016)
Journal Article

Purpose - This paper focuses on the undergraduate research conference as its sphere of study and investigates the significance of participation and socialisation in such activities on student attitudes and professional development. Using situated lea... Read More about Evaluating undergraduate research conferences as vehicles for novice researchers and transferable skills development.

Borderland spaces for learning partnership: opportunities, benefits and challenges (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper uses case studies and secondary literature to critically examine how learning spaces inhabited by geographers might be used productively as borderland spaces for learning part... Read More about Borderland spaces for learning partnership: opportunities, benefits and challenges.

Welcome to the pedagogic borderlands (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will invite you to let go of the familiar and to consider how learning spaces in higher education might be used creatively for pedagogic practice as ‘borderlands’. The borderland concept allows a re-conceptualisation of pedagogic spaces, i... Read More about Welcome to the pedagogic borderlands.

A rock-surface microweathering index from Schmidt hammer R-values and its preliminary application to some common rock types in southern Norway (2016)
Journal Article

An index of the degree of rock-surface microweathering based on Schmidt hammer R-values is developed for use in the field without laboratory testing. A series of indices - I2 to In, where n is the number of successive blows with the hammer - is first... Read More about A rock-surface microweathering index from Schmidt hammer R-values and its preliminary application to some common rock types in southern Norway.

Graduate attributes: implications for higher education practice and policy: Introduction (2016)
Journal Article

The higher education landscape is shifting under neo-liberal forces that are increasingly aligning the goals of business, government and education. This shift is engendering debate around the world about the role of higher education institutions in p... Read More about Graduate attributes: implications for higher education practice and policy: Introduction.

Developing graduate attributes through participation in undergraduate research conferences (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. Abstract: Graduate attributes are a framework of skills, attitudes, values and knowledge that graduates should develop by the end of their degree programmes. Adopting a largely qualitative approach and using semi-structured... Read More about Developing graduate attributes through participation in undergraduate research conferences.

Effective research communication (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter begins by outlining the nature of research, identifying the key steps that both comprise the research process and help you to plan the presentation of your research. It highlights the advantages that can be gained as a geography student... Read More about Effective research communication.

Undergraduate research: Supporting teaching & learning & developing graduate attributes (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper academic staff and undergraduate students will encourage you to consider the relevance of undergraduate research within and beyond the curriculum.We will showcase UWE participation in the British Conference of Undergraduate Research and... Read More about Undergraduate research: Supporting teaching & learning & developing graduate attributes.