I'm currently based in the Institute for Education, Teaching, and Leadership at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh.
Undergraduate teaching
I teach on the Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary) where I coordinate the Outdoor Learning course
Postgraduate teaching
I teach on the MSc Education, MSc Learning for Sustainability, MSc Outdoor Education, and the MSc Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education where I contribute to the following courses:
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The Sources of Knowledge (Research Methods I)
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Conceptualising research: Foundations, assumptions and praxis (Research Methods II)
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Philosophy of Education
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Experiential Education
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Social Theory and Outdoor Education
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Outdoor Environmental Education in Practice
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Personal and Social Development in Outdoor Education: Critical Perspectives
I also contribute to the Postgraduate Dissertation Support Strand.
Areas of interest for supervision
I view educational research-practice as situated in and necessarily responding to the Anthropocene era. I am hopeful to work with candidates in the following areas:
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Creative approaches to education research
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Practitioner inquiry and participatory action research
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Narrative, autobiographical, and autoethnographic inquiry
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Philosophical inquiry, with a particular focus on feminist new materialisms and posthumanism
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Research into the methods and methodologies of environmental education research
Past MSc titles supervised to completion:
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Exploring (Outdoor Environmental) Education Enrichment through the Integration of Emotions, Affect and Ontological Multiplicity:
(Post)Personal Experiences from my Master’s Study -
Returning to Cader Idris; an Autoethnographic Exploration on the Influence of Memories on Present Experience.
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Interdisciplinary and Environmental Education from a Process Perspective
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Can cultural travelling experiences help promote travellers’ future environmental activism? A critical conceptual discussion exploring the possibility that cultural travelling relates with learning for sustainability and promotes an environmentally sustainable lifestyle
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Critical Discourse Analysis of the Advertising of Environmental Educators Training Workshops on Social Media: A Case Study of China Nature Education Forum
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What are the factors influencing volunteers’ engagement in environmental action?: Research into environmental volunteers participating in conservation projects in the National Trust for Scotland organisation.
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A Phenomenological Study of Scottish Teachers’ Lived Experiences in Utilising Outdoor Education to Deliver the History Curriculum
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The theoretical frameworks in China and Britain on education for the gifted and talented