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Making the Most of Fieldwork

Thursday 24th June, 2004

Liverpool John Moores University

Over 30 delegates traveled to Liverpool to attend the event which focused on Fieldwork. During the day the benefits, educational and otherwise, of providing fieldwork within degree modules and programmes were highlighted. Examples of developments in fieldwork teaching and ways of maximising the outcomes from fieldwork were also presented and discussed.

 

Programme
10.00 Registration; Tea and Coffee
10.15 Welcome
Simon Dowell, the Director of the School of Biological and Earth Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University
10.20 Introduction
Allan Jones, University of Dundee and Co-ordinator of the Practical Work in the Biosciences Special Interest Group
10.40 Keynote: Biology fieldwork: victim or sinner?
Steve Tilling, Field Studies Council
11.15 Fieldwork is good? - the student experience
Clare Milsom, Liverpool John Moores University
11.45 Discussion
12.05 Developing inclusive and accessible fieldwork: where to start?
Jenny Jones, Liverpool John Moores University
12:25 Ecological Projects Compendium
Debbie Smith, British Ecological Society
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Group Activity: Assessment issues with fieldwork
Julian Park, University of Reading and Subject Specialist, LTSN Bioscience
14.15 Refreshments
14.30 Using field time effectively
Mark Langan, Manchester Metropolitan University
14.55 Online access to a large-scale field experiment
Alan Fielding, Manchester Metropolitan University
Handout: Tireragan a real and virtual field experiment (pdf)
15:20 From fieldwork to conference: enhancing and motivating the student experience through professional activity
Annie Worsley, Edge Hill College of Higher Education
15.45 Plenary
Chaired by Allan Jones, University of Dundee and Co-ordinator of the Practical Work in the Biosciences Special Interest Group
 

 

Summary of the day

A selected bibliography of Practical Work education, with a number of fieldwork related references.

TIRERAGAN a real and virtual field experiment.

Jenny Jones' recommended reading on Fieldwork and Accessibility (as pdf)