Employability in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
The enhancement of graduate employability has become a key issue in higher education due to the rapid expansion of the sector, the widening participation agenda, the rise of knowledge-based economies, increasingly competitive labour markets, and the transformed and diversified nature of graduates' work.
These web pages provide links to resources and activities on the main aspects of employability as they relate to the GEES subjects including key skills, work-based learning, career development, personal development planning (PDP), entrepreneurship / enterprise, corporate & social responsibility and ethics.
Publications / Resources
- Past event: Employability, Employer Engagement and Enterprise in the GEES Disciplines - GEES Subject Centre Summer Residential Conference 2008
- Web site: Your Degree in Geography or Environmental Science - Making it Work. Personal Development Planning (PDP) materials for Geography or Environmental Science degree students.
- "Bailey Record" performance management materials - developed by The University of Plymouth in collaboration with PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- Publication: Employability within Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (pdf 1.5mb) - Sharon Gedye and Brian Chalkley - GEES Subject Centre, University of Plymouth
- Web site: GEES Employability, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Wiki
- Dataset: GEES Graduate Employability Survey (2003)
- Publication: Values and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (140Kb Word Doc) - A combined project for Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS) and Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) Subject Centres
- Toolkit: Employability Profiles
- Toolkit: Entrepreneurship Resource Pack
- Publication: Embedding Careers Education in the Curricula of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (2001)
- Past event: Enterprise, Skills & Entrepreneurship: Enhancing the GEES Curriculum Event (2005)
- Web site: The Higher Education Academy Employability web pages
- Publication: Enhancing Graduate Employability: Summary of the Survey of Staff Opinion
Current Projects / Events
- Event: Employability, Employer Engagement and Enterprise in the GEES Disciplines
- Project: Understanding the use of PDP in the ‘real world’ - Pauline E. Kneale, School of Geography, University of Leeds
- Project: Enhancing Environmental Entrepreneurship Education - Fiona Tilley, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- Project: Development of a virtual workplace to bring the ‘real world’ to undergraduates - Jenny Jones, School of Biological & Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University
- Project: Extended international work-related placements: the challenges of supporting remote learning and assessment - Simon K. Haslett, Department of Geography, Bath Spa University College
- Project: PDP in Geography – the transition from schools to HE to the work place - Paul McDermott, University of Northampton
- Project: Ethics Project - details to be announced
We hope you find this employability resource useful. If you didn’t find what you were looking for why not search our Resource Database. Please give us your feedback. If you have any questions or queries, please contact Sharon Gedye, GEES Subject Centre Employability Officer (Sharon.gedye@plymouth.ac.uk).