Dr Harry West's Outputs (9)

The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice (2024)
Journal Article

Many interventions have been developed by staff to support students in understanding assessment task requirements and summative and formative feedback. However, to various extents, these approaches assume a shared understanding of the, often indeterm... Read More about The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice.

The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice (2024)
Journal Article

Many interventions have been developed by staff to support students in understanding assessment task requirements and summative and formative feedback. However, to various extents these approaches assume a shared understanding of the, often indetermi... Read More about The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice.

Feeling our way forward: Embracing emotions in geography higher education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Whilst emotions are increasingly recognised in geographical research, their role in impacting teaching, learning, assessment and broader performance outcomes in geography higher education has been explored to a lesser extent. In this paper, we will u... Read More about Feeling our way forward: Embracing emotions in geography higher education.

The relationship between GBGI and quality of life, health and wellbeing in Bristol, UK (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mental health, particularly for urban populations, is a growing public health concern. Understanding how people relate to and feel a sense of belonging in the urban environment is therefore an important research agenda. There is growing evidence abou... Read More about The relationship between GBGI and quality of life, health and wellbeing in Bristol, UK.

Evaluating the utility of Sentinel-2 imagery in estimating water quality in an ecologically significant, shallow, and optically complex estuarine lake system (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Lake St Lucia is Africa’s largest estuarine lake system and is a Ramsar and World Heritage Site. Shallow coastal lakes are especially dynamic environments that shift between wet and dry periods where desiccation can result in hypersalinity and other... Read More about Evaluating the utility of Sentinel-2 imagery in estimating water quality in an ecologically significant, shallow, and optically complex estuarine lake system.

The role of GBGI in levelling up in Bristol (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We examined the association between provision and experience of a range of green-blue-grey infrastructure and neighbourhood satisfaction, life satisfaction, wellbeing and general health. We found that satisfaction with greenspace was the most consist... Read More about The role of GBGI in levelling up in Bristol.

Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic (2023)
Journal Article

This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key re... Read More about Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic.

The role of GBGI in levelling up in Bristol (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation was given at the RECLAIM Network conference in September 2023. In this project we investigate the relationship between GBGI and self-reported life satisfaction and wellbeing over a long time period at high-resolution in Bristol. Mul... Read More about The role of GBGI in levelling up in Bristol.

Exploring relationships between GBGI exposure and health and social outcomes in Bristol, UK (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mental health, particularly for urban populations, is a growing public health concern. Understanding how people relate to and feel a sense of belonging in the urban environment is therefore an important research agenda. There is growing evidence abou... Read More about Exploring relationships between GBGI exposure and health and social outcomes in Bristol, UK.