Peter Jones
Principal Lecturer in Cultural Geography
Tel: 020 8331 9559
Email: p.c.jones@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 231
Office hours
Friday 2-4pm
Qualifications:
BA Hons Sociology and Geography, University of Sheffield
PhD, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
Critical thinking and academic writing:
I directed the Teaching and Learning at the Environment-Science-Society Interface [TALESSI] project (supported by HEFCE's Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning, 1997-2001)
My recent publications in this area include:
'Beyond 'Study Skills': bibliographic citation, knowledge claims and writing development' (with Clare Palmer). Chapter 15 of Writing Development in Higher Education: Changing Contexts for Teaching and Learning, ed Maria Graal. University of Leicester, 2002
'Redefining Higher Education: a case study in widening participation' (with Patrick Ainley et al). Chapter 5 of Access, Participation and Higher Education, eds Annette Hayton and Anna Pazuska. Kogan Page, 2002
'Plagiarism and the Academic Essay: a story of mystery, treachery and betrayal?(with Clare Palmer). Paper presented to the 2 nd Annual Skills Conference, University of Hertfordshire , July 2001
'The TALESSI Project: promoting interdisciplinary, critical thinking and values awareness in environmental higher education' (with J Quentin Merritt). Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 23 (3), November 1999.
'Critical Thinking and Interdisciplinary in Environmental Higher Education: the case for epistemological and values awareness' (with J Quentin Merritt and Clare Palmer). Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 23 (3), November 1999.
Social perspectives on environmental and public health risk
My recent publications in this area include:
'Raising the Gold Standard' and 'Learning and Teaching for Evidence-Based Nursing' (with Lesley Graham and Rosemary Pope). Chapters 6 and 10 of Shaping the Facts: Evidence-Based Nursing, eds Rosemary Pope, Pam Smith and Elizabeth Meerabeau. Churchill Livingstone, 2004
'Science and Environmental Decision Making: the social context' (with J Quentin Merritt). Chapter 3 of Science and Environmental Decision Making, eds Mark Huxham and David Sumner. Pearson, 2000