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Ready & able graduates: GIS as a tool for dispositional development (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Horswell, M., & West, H. (2018, July). Ready & able graduates: GIS as a tool for dispositional development. Paper presented at Esri Education Summit, San Diego, California, USA

As university tutors in an age of easy access to information and instruction, our role shifts from information transmitter to something altogether more challenging. Fee paying students with high expectations demand more than knowledge and technical c... Read More about Ready & able graduates: GIS as a tool for dispositional development.

Developing an undergraduate GIS curriculum for the 21st century (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Horswell, M., Quinn, N., & West, H. (2018, July). Developing an undergraduate GIS curriculum for the 21st century. Paper presented at Esri Education Summit, San Diego, California, USA

The greatest challenge in teaching a technology related subject, is the rate at which technology changes and progresses. Designing curricula in such contexts, requires a shift out of a ‘training’ mind set, to be both anticipatory and market responsiv... Read More about Developing an undergraduate GIS curriculum for the 21st century.

Story mapping & ArcGIS online: Building bridges between students & researchers (2018)
Presentation / Conference
West, H., Horswell, M., & Quinn, N. (2018, July). Story mapping & ArcGIS online: Building bridges between students & researchers. Paper presented at Esri Education Summit, San Diego, California, USA

Researchers at UWE Bristol (UK) needed ways of communicating drought and were struggling to find an in-road as drought seems ‘low risk’ in the UK. Using Story Maps to develop conversation pieces was recognised as way forward. Students were given the... Read More about Story mapping & ArcGIS online: Building bridges between students & researchers.

Assessing vegetation response to soil moisture fluctuation under extreme drought using sentinel-2 (2018)
Journal Article
West, H., Quinn, N., Horswell, M., & White, P. (2018). Assessing vegetation response to soil moisture fluctuation under extreme drought using sentinel-2. Water, 10(7), Article 838. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10070838

© 2018 by the authors. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which Sentinel-2 Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) reflects soil moisture conditions, and whether this product offers an improvement over Landsat-8. Based on drou... Read More about Assessing vegetation response to soil moisture fluctuation under extreme drought using sentinel-2.

Performance of Sentinel-2 NDVI for assessing the relationship between vegetation and soil moisture under extreme drought conditions (2018)
Presentation / Conference
West, H., Quinn, N., Horswell, M., & White, P. (2018, April). Performance of Sentinel-2 NDVI for assessing the relationship between vegetation and soil moisture under extreme drought conditions. Poster presented at European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

Initial indications are that the enhanced spatial and spectral resolution of Sentinel-2 would allow for better assess- ment of vegetation condition, and consequently improved application in conditions of moisture deficit/drought. Although NDVI and ot... Read More about Performance of Sentinel-2 NDVI for assessing the relationship between vegetation and soil moisture under extreme drought conditions.

Regionalising the influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on seasonal hydrological extremes in Great Britain (2018)
Presentation / Conference
West, H., Quinn, N., & Horswell, M. (2018, April). Regionalising the influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on seasonal hydrological extremes in Great Britain. Poster presented at European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

Although some studies have shown the influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on rainfall in the United Kingdom (UK), these have focussed on rainfall extremes (rather than the flood- drought continuum) and have either been based on analysis... Read More about Regionalising the influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on seasonal hydrological extremes in Great Britain.

Exploring the sensitivity of coastal inundation modelling to DEM vertical error (2018)
Journal Article
West, H., Horswell, M., & Quinn, N. (2018). Exploring the sensitivity of coastal inundation modelling to DEM vertical error. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(6), 1172-1193. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1444165

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. As sea level is projected to rise throughout the twenty-first century due to climate change, there is a need to ensure that sea level rise (SLR) models accurately and defensibly represen... Read More about Exploring the sensitivity of coastal inundation modelling to DEM vertical error.

GIS has changed! Exploring the potential of ArcGIS online (2018)
Journal Article
West, H., & Horswell, M. (2018). GIS has changed! Exploring the potential of ArcGIS online. Teaching Geography, 43(1), 22-24

In this article, we aim to briefly introduce you to Eris’s ArcGIS Online platform. Online GIS platforms are typically far removed from the highly specialist desktop software that many teachers today trained on. ArcGIS Online is an effective and effic... Read More about GIS has changed! Exploring the potential of ArcGIS online.

Weight gain in mid-childhood and its relationship with the fast food environment (2017)
Journal Article
Pearce, M., Bray, I., & Horswell, M. (2018). Weight gain in mid-childhood and its relationship with the fast food environment. Journal of Public Health, 40(2), 237-244. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdx108

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. All rights reserved. Background Childhood obesity is a serious public health issue. Understanding environmental factors and their contribution to weight ga... Read More about Weight gain in mid-childhood and its relationship with the fast food environment.

Research, industry & the academy: Forging links & professionalizing graduates through conference assessment events (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Horswell, M., & West, H. (2017, February). Research, industry & the academy: Forging links & professionalizing graduates through conference assessment events. Paper presented at National Student Satisfaction (NSS) Survey: Best Practice Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol

Ready and able graduates are much more than subject knowledgeable, or equipped with transferable skills. Conference assessment events, using live briefs from researchers and external stakeholders, and that include industry representatives and academi... Read More about Research, industry & the academy: Forging links & professionalizing graduates through conference assessment events.

Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (3): Evidence from remote sensing (2016)
Journal Article
Davies, T., Horswell, M., & Everard, M. (2016). Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (3): Evidence from remote sensing. Ecosystem Services, 21(A), 20-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.07.007

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Community-based measures recharging groundwater in semi-arid India has historically underpinned rural socio-ecological resilience, though are declining through technological, policy and other changes. Nevertheless, exemplars of c... Read More about Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (3): Evidence from remote sensing.

Win! Win! Win! Win! A case study of student / tutor / researcher / technician collaboration in teaching & research integration (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Horswell, M., Quinn, N., West, H., & Satchell, P. (2016, June). Win! Win! Win! Win! A case study of student / tutor / researcher / technician collaboration in teaching & research integration. Paper presented at UWE Teaching & Learning Conference, UWE, Bristol

Researchers at the Centre for Floods, Communities and Resilience and academics in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management have involved undergraduate students in the activities of the research centre. Researchers needed ways of encou... Read More about Win! Win! Win! Win! A case study of student / tutor / researcher / technician collaboration in teaching & research integration.

Professionalizing assessment using ArcGIS online (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Horswell, M., & West, H. (2016, May). Professionalizing assessment using ArcGIS online. Paper presented at ESRI UK Annual Conference, London, England

Professionalizing Assessment using ArcGIS Online

Neighbourhood accessibility and active travel (2012)
Journal Article
Barton, H., Horswell, M., & Millar, P. (2012). Neighbourhood accessibility and active travel. Planning Practice and Research, 27(2), 177-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2012.661636

Neighbourhoods are advocated in UK planning policy in order to foster social capital, combat obesity and reduce transport greenhouse emissions. The new agenda of localism reinforces this move. Yet travel behaviour trends, and the continuing decline o... Read More about Neighbourhood accessibility and active travel.

Reshaping suburbs (2011)
Report
Barton, H., Grant, M., Rice, L., & Horswell, M. (2011). Reshaping suburbs

A report produced as part of the EPSRC solutions project - the sustainability of land use and transport in outer neighberhoods.