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EBL From The Very First Day: Developing New Senses of Place

To develop a new EBL project for all first year geography students to be implemented during the induction weekend residential fieldtrip to Keswick. The exercise will engage students directly with the environment through role play and collaborative mapping, and will be team-based, with students responsible for the design and execution of the fieldwork research. This will be the students first university experience of geography and will immerse them in an EBL project that will stretch them, encourage collaborative, creative and artistic appreciation of place, and also be fun. It will open their eyes to the different ways cultural geography makes places and their own roles in this process.
Project Team: Martin Dodge, Mark Jayne, Sara MacKian, Chris Perkins  Faculty: Humanities
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: geography, fieldtrip, keswick, first year, place, environment, mapping, research, collaboration
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Green City Projects: facilitating cross-faculty communities of practice in environment and sustainable development research for Manchester City Council

This project seeks to foster cross-university collaboration between dissertation and team research project components of taught masters and other level 4 programmes. Students will use EBL as research-based learning to develop solutions independently or in discipline teams on real projects for the City. Disciplines will share experiences in online action learning sets and compare results in a plenary.
Project Team: Professor Colin Hughes, Julia McMorrow, Peter Smyntek, Jonathan Sadler, Mark Baker  Faculty: TEAM, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Humanities
Funding year: 2008
Keywords: TEAM, green city, Manchester, sustainable development, environment, research, projects, groupwork, interdisciplinary