GEES Subject Centre Key Themes

• Active Learning: critical thinking; enquiry-based learning; case studies
• Enhancing learning and teaching through the use of technology (e-learning) in GEES: supporting fieldwork, web 2.0 technologies, visualisation resources and tools
• Employability: careers education, enterprise & entrepreneurship, employer engagement, key skills, personal development planning (PDP), work-based learning
• Global and Local Citizenship: Education for sustainable development; Corporate / social responsibility
• Inclusive Curriculum: Supporting students with disabilities; faith literacy
• Learning, Teaching and Assessment: learning and teaching; assessment and feedback; foundation degrees and sector skills councils; quality assurance; quantitative skills; taught postgraduate level
• Open Educational Resources (OER): legal, technical and pedagogic aspects of open release
• Recruitment, Transition and Retention: outreach to schools and the public - student perceptions; involving students in curriculum development
• Scholarship and Professional Development: initial and continuing professional development; new and aspiring lecturers, linking teaching and research; research on learning (pedagogic research)
• STEM: Science, technology, engineering and mathematics