Colleagues with an interest in overseas placements/practice learning in
social work or social policy may be interested in attending this event.
If interested please register on-line with GEES as indicated below.

Hilary Burgess
Learning and Teaching Advisor
LTSN Social Policy and Social Work - SWAP


***Overseas Fieldwork in HE***

A collaborative event between LTSN Geography, Earth and Environmental
Sciences (GEES) and LTSN Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
(in association with the Royal Geographical Society with the IBG)

A National Conference
Wednesday April 2nd, Geological Society, Picadilly, London

One of the most appealing characteristics of a degree for
undergraduates in many disciplines, is undertaking overseas fieldwork.
Travelling to far-away places, undertaking valuable research and
meeting new people can all provide a very rich and exciting student
learning experience.  However, planning such fieldwork requires a
considerable amount of time and effort.   What will you do?  Where will
you go? How will you assess student work?  How will you deal with
student health & safety and accessibility issues? And how will you get
institutional support?

These are some of the important questions that need to be considered by
academics running overseas fieldwork in all subjects.  This conference
provides a unique opportunity for a wide-range of practitioners from a
variety of different disciplines to network and collaborate on issues
relating to the running of overseas field programmes.  So, if you've
ever wondered how other disciplines deliver overseas fieldwork and what
they do, this is your chance to find out and learn from their
experience!

Specifically, this event aims to:

1.      Bring together academics involved in HE overseas fieldwork from
a variety of disciplines in order to share expertise, exchange ideas
and good practice;

2.      Raise awareness of the inter-disciplinary learning needs of
students on degree programmes with overseas fieldwork components;

3.      Provide opportunities to discuss the academic and the
practical/logistical issues when designing and delivering overseas
fieldwork;

4.      Identify the needs of colleagues with respect to overseas
fieldwork support and guidance;

5.      Assist in the building of an area studies network to discuss
inter-disciplinary issues such as overseas fieldwork and other generic
issues.

We hope as a consequence of this event that delegates will also be able
to benefit from a range of materials (case studies, teaching materials,
articles etc.) that represent good practice in learning, teaching and
assessment of overseas fieldwork programmes.

The event is free of charge, and you can register online now at:

www.gees.ac.uk/osfw.htm

Come and join in our discussions with over 50 colleagues from the GEES
and other disciplines.

Rgds,
Steve Gaskin

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Hilary Burgess
Learning and Teaching Advisor
LTSN Social Policy and Social Work - SWAP
School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol,
8 Priory Road, BRISTOL BS8 1TZ
Tel: +44 (0)117 954 6767
Fax: +44 (0)117 954 6756
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