... to help finance attendance at the RGS-IBG conference. Please see below.
Dear all,
Further to a previous message, I am pleased to confirm that the RGS-IBG annual conference session,
Do geographers count? Potentials, pitfalls and peer support for teaching quantitative methods in geography
will take place on the morning of Wednesday July 4th in Edinburgh. The session is being sponsored by the ESRC/HEFCE/British Academy and by the Quantitative Methods Research and Geographical Information Science Research Groups
To register for it, please go to https://atrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3mxaQTv8lgqM6Lq
This session is an opportunity to come along and meet others involved in the development, application and teaching of quantitative methods (QM), to share ideas, and to participate in a round table conversation about how geography might respond to what the ESRC has described as a “fragile teaching base [that] reproduces the weakness of training for future cohorts, pushing quantitative methods to the margins of UK social science”.
To help motivate the discussions there will be three short presentations:
Why Geographers Count. Professor Chris Brunsdon, University of Liverpool
Looking in two directions at the same time: data analysis across space and time. Dr. Nicola Shelton, Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
‘Do we have to know these formulas?’ Professor Robin Flowerdew, University of St. Andrews.
Questions we might then consider include:
Is there a minimum standard of quantitative training that all geography students should receive?
Are the requirements for QM training well served by the existing benchmark statements for the discipline, and by the prior teaching of students at A-level?
Is there agreement on what would constitute a foundational QM curriculum within geography?
Are there ways to better support the teachers of these methods and to encourage students to see them as important and relevant to their discussion?
Whilst we encourage all participants to register for the conference at www.rgs.org/AC2012, the session will be free to for those who are unable to attend (and therefore register for) the rest of the conference. A small number of limited travel bursaries are also available.
We especially invite PhD students and 'early years' lecturers/teaching associates to apply.
For administrative purposes, it would be helpful if you could register for the session at https://atrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3mxaQTv8lgqM6Lq. The opportunity to apply for a free pass and/or a travel bursary can also be made there.
We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh!
Richard Harris
Scott Orford
Alex Singleton
Chris Brunsdon
Nicholas Tate
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