Teaching

I am strongly committed to teaching and facilitating student learning. The principal reason universities exist is to educate. In my student interactions I seek to:

1. Enthuse them about the subject matter under discussion
2. Help them to develop an inquiry-based approach to learning, such that they enhance skills that will enable them to undertake learning throughout life and to act as problem-solvers
3. Give them full experience of a wide range of transferable skills that will be of value in future careers
4. Enthuse them in the study of the diverse, exciting and challenging social and cultural environment that is the home for most of my students – Europe.

Because of my role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor I am currently undertaking relatively little teaching. However I am still convenor for GEO323 Social Geography of Europe:

GEO323 Social Geography of Europe

This module uses an Inquiry-Based Learning Approach, in which most of the learning takes place via student individual and group activities. Students are introduced to a range of structural issues relating to diversity across Europe. These include:

Demographic variability
Variations in social values
Variations in welfare structures and ideologies
Social exclusion
Regional movements
Ethnicity and ghettoization

The module is taught with the assistance of Dr Dimitris Ballas.