I first met Ian Cook in November 2006.
He was one of the expert academic geographers who Diane Swift had assembled as part of the Young People's Geographies project. A funded project which formed part of the Action Plan for Geography. I travelled with my colleague Christine Clarke and 4 students from my school at the time in King's Lynn. We were teaching the OCR Pilot GCSE Geography at the time.
Other academics included Tracey Valentine and John Morgan.
Nick Hopwood from the University of Oxford was the evaluator at the time, and later added his thoughts into a book, which I have a copy of on the shelf.
Ian was working at the University of Exeter and ran a module called 'Geographies of Material Culture'.
One of his PhD students there: Helen Griffiths was also involved in the project.
She writes about the project in her PhD thesis which she later completed, which included some contributions from me eventually. I'd mentioned some of Helen's work on my GeographyPages blog.
Also there, amongst the other teachers were some great colleagues from Inner London schools, plus Dan Raven Ellison and his students, Dee Saran and hers and others.
I have some DVDs of some of the meetings that followed, particularly the final presentation event at the City Hall in Leicester.
I later worked for Ian to produce some educational resources for his 'Follow the Things' website and later worked with he and Eeva Kempainen to put together a guide on 'subvertisement'.
The Ideas Zone at the GA Conference saw Follow the Things and Mission:Explore sharing an area of the conference.
Time for Geography have now made Ian the subject of their latest video as he explains how to have an interesting research idea.
This is of interest not just for undergraduates but also those doing the NEA.
From the website:
As geographers, we have the power to shape our world, by asking the right questions and carrying out research to answer those questions, leading to new and world changing discoveries!
But where do we even begin? How do we come up with a research idea? How do we go about producing and analysing evidence? And how do we share our discoveries with others?
In this first of 6 videos, we team with human geographer Prof. Ian Cook, to ask How do you come up with a new and interesting research idea?
For further reading about research into political Lego, see Inviting construction: Primark, Rana Plaza and political LEGO.
He was one of the expert academic geographers who Diane Swift had assembled as part of the Young People's Geographies project. A funded project which formed part of the Action Plan for Geography. I travelled with my colleague Christine Clarke and 4 students from my school at the time in King's Lynn. We were teaching the OCR Pilot GCSE Geography at the time.
Other academics included Tracey Valentine and John Morgan.
Nick Hopwood from the University of Oxford was the evaluator at the time, and later added his thoughts into a book, which I have a copy of on the shelf.
Ian was working at the University of Exeter and ran a module called 'Geographies of Material Culture'.
One of his PhD students there: Helen Griffiths was also involved in the project.
She writes about the project in her PhD thesis which she later completed, which included some contributions from me eventually. I'd mentioned some of Helen's work on my GeographyPages blog.
Also there, amongst the other teachers were some great colleagues from Inner London schools, plus Dan Raven Ellison and his students, Dee Saran and hers and others.
I have some DVDs of some of the meetings that followed, particularly the final presentation event at the City Hall in Leicester.
I later worked for Ian to produce some educational resources for his 'Follow the Things' website and later worked with he and Eeva Kempainen to put together a guide on 'subvertisement'.
The Ideas Zone at the GA Conference saw Follow the Things and Mission:Explore sharing an area of the conference.
Time for Geography have now made Ian the subject of their latest video as he explains how to have an interesting research idea.
This is of interest not just for undergraduates but also those doing the NEA.
From the website:
As geographers, we have the power to shape our world, by asking the right questions and carrying out research to answer those questions, leading to new and world changing discoveries!
But where do we even begin? How do we come up with a research idea? How do we go about producing and analysing evidence? And how do we share our discoveries with others?
In this first of 6 videos, we team with human geographer Prof. Ian Cook, to ask How do you come up with a new and interesting research idea?
For further reading about research into political Lego, see Inviting construction: Primark, Rana Plaza and political LEGO.
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