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Quick introduction to the GEES Subject Centre

The subject centre is an organisation developed to help improve the ‘student learning experience’ by supporting and informing the staff within higher education.  We do this by running workshops, funding pedagogy research (research into teaching methods), hosting conferences, collecting case studies of good practice and sharing them throughout the community and providing teaching resources, amongst many other activities.  We are specific to Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences as there are 23 other Subject Centres to deal with the whole spectrum of subjects on offer by universities.  We all work under the umbrella organisation The Higher Education Academy which was set up by the government in 2004; however the Subject Centres have been around since 2000.  If you would like more information on our background please click on the ‘about us’ link at the top of the page.