Publications

The GEES Subject Centre produces a variety of publications, including its biannual publication 'Planet' and a selection of GEES guides. This page provides a list of our major publications all of which are freely available to download. If you wish to have a printed version, please contact our Dissemination Co-ordinator, Susie Stillwell (tel: 01752 584529 email: susie.stillwell@plymouth.ac.uk) for your free copy.

Other relevant publications by the Subject Centre and other organisations, including project reports and resource listings, may be found listed within the Projects / Themes page (under the appropriate theme) or by searching our Resource Database.

New: Pedagogy of Climate Change publication

Planet (Biannual Publication) Thematic Issues:

• Employability, Employer Engagement and Enterprise in the GEES Disciplines (pdf file: Jan 2009)
• Recruitment and Retention in the GEES Disciplines (pdf file: Jan 2008)
• Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge in GEES (pdf file: Dec 2006)
• Postgraduate Taught Courses in GEES (pdf file: June 2005)
• Linking Teaching and Research and undertaking Pedagogic Research in GEES(pdf file: Dec 2003)
• Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): Ideas for learning and teaching in GEES (pdf file: Dec 2002)
• Special Educational Needs and Disabilities - learning and teaching guidance for GEES (pdf file: April 2002)
• Case Studies in Problem based Learning from GEES (PBL) (pdf file: Nov 2001)
• Embedding Careers Education in the Curricula of GEES (pdf file: June 2001)

Also available for download are the regular (non-themed editions) of Planet.

GEES Guides

• Designing Effective Fieldwork for the Environmental and Natural Sciences (2009)
• Teaching Geoscience through Fieldwork (2008)
• Employability within Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences (2006)
• Practical & Laboratory work in Earth & Environmental Sciences: guide to good practice and helpful resources (2006)
• Assessment in the Earth Sciences & Environmental Sciences and Environmental Studies (2005)

GEES Briefings

• Giving Feedback (2010)
• Modes of Feedback (2010)

GEES Resource Packs

• One Step Ahead: Enhancement through the GEES Disciplines, a Scottish Perspective (2009)
• New and Aspiring Lecturer’s Resource Pack (2009)

Other relevant publications

• Pedagogy of Climate Change
• GEES Start Here
• GEES bibliographies
• Bringing about Change in Learning and Teaching at a Departmental Level - Report on the GEES Subject Centre Departmental Change Initiative (project report: 2009)
• 'Mapping the Environmental Landscape: An investigation into the state of the environmental science subject in higher education' - a report from The Committee of Heads of Environmental Sciences (CHES)
• Fieldwork Safety - A Briefing on BS8848 (briefing: February 2008)
• Them & Us: a publication for Geography, Earth and Environmental Science Staff and Students (project web page: 2007)
• School Student Perceptions of Geography, Geology and Environmental Sciences (project web page: 2007)
• Enterprise, Skills & Entrepreneurship Resource Pack (project web page: 2005)
• Employability Profiles Resource Pack (project web page: 2005)
• Aspiring and Current External Examiners in the GEES disciplines (project report: 2004)
• Values and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (project report: 2005)
• Acting Sustainably: encouraging and crediting student engagement in sustainable development (project report: 2006)
• Integrating sustainable development principles into professional practice: Initial training requirements for environmental scientists (project report: 2006)
• Education for Sustainable Development for GEES students in UK higher education (briefing: 2005)
• Mathematics, Statistics & Quantitative Skills (briefing: December 2003, Links updated April 2008)