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Geography, Geology and the Environment

Double HEA grant success

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Posted on 07 January 2011

Colleagues in Geography, Geology and the Environment have been awarded two grants from the Higher Education Academy, Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences subject centre. Drs Deirdre McKay, Lisa Lau and Peter Knight with Dr Emma Dawson, from the LDU, have been awarded £ 10,300 for a two-year project, 'Reading the World: Innovative strategies for building textual skills in the undergraduate Geography curriculum'. The project, engaging both Human and Physical Geography, will identify and resolve problems of incorporating of literary techniques in Geography undergraduate training and provide a template for curriculum redesign. It builds on existing projects and broadens the range of introductory-level assessments to better prepare students for upper-year modules, and will provide key employability skills for graduates.

Dr Jamie Pringle has been awarded £4,250 for a project entitled, 'Developing a Geoscience e-trainer Open Educational Resource to provide a stimulating and effective learning environment'. This project will tap into current student interests in virtual gaming technologies to provide a complementary learning tool to more traditional course materials and learning styles. Developed with Luke Bracegirdle (Pharmacy) and Dr Stephen Bostock (LDU) overseeing student evaluation, users will work through geoscientific investigations of a forensic search for a clandestine burial of a murder victim that Jamie has recently worked on. The key learning outcomes include engagement with applied real-world investigative problems and solutions, and the project will provide many employability skills, including showcasing virtual placement experience for job interviews.

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