Role
- Tutor on the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP)
- PGCAP Negotiated Study Module (NSM) leader for Personal Tutoring
- Tutor of the General Teaching Associate (GTA) programme
- Provide support on specific teaching and learning themes through workshops and the production of resources
- Conducting pedagogic research - currently examining the role and experiences of personal tutors
- Educational Development representative to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Qualifications & background
B.Sc. (Hons.) Geography (First Class), University of Liverpool, 1993.
Ph.D. Geography. Title: ‘Mass Balance in Recent Peat’. N.E.R.C. Case Studentship, University of Liverpool, 1998.
Previous Employment
2003 to 2010
Project Coordinator (PT) / Employability Researcher for the HE Academy Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES), based at the University of Plymouth.
1996 to 2003
Lecturer in Physical Geography, Edge Hill University. Responsible for teaching across all undergraduate levels, research and administration. Year 2 programme tutor.
Additionally:
2006 to 2007
Associate Lecturer (PT) at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth providing sabbatical cover on six modules within the Geography subject area.
2004
Personal Development Planning (PDP) Support Officer (PT) for the University of Plymouth. Working as part of the Educational Development team I helped to support staff in developing and delivering PDP through staff workshops, course team meetings and resource development.
1993
Research Assistant to Professor F. Oldfield, University of Liverpool. Employed to undertake palaeomagnetic analysis of varved lake sediments as part of the ‘Geochronology of the Last Millennium‘, NERC special topic project.
Professional membership
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Teaching interests
My teaching Interests and specialisms are:
- Employability
- Personal Tutoring
- Personal Development Planning
- Skills development
- Assessment and Feedback.
Previous Teaching and Learning Experience
As a Geography Lecturer:
- Lecturing, practical/field teaching, e-learning, team-teaching, , small group teaching, supervision (undergraduate to PhD). In addition to my subject teaching I specialised in personal and skills development (study skills, key skills, personal development planning (PDP)).
- As module leader covering 60 credits worth of level 1 provision, my role required careful induction, teaching and assessment practices to combat cross-institutional retention issues.
- I worked in partnership with the Teaching and Learning Development Unit at Edge Hill University to develop, customise and embed PDP into the level one curriculum of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science programmes (2001).
- I was an early adopter (2001) of e-learning in my teaching practice. I was one of the first-wave of lecturers at my institution (and nationally) to employ blended on-line learning.
As a Teaching and Learning Professional:
- I have experience of staff development in relation to teaching and learning. I have facilitated numerous employability and PDP workshops both at the UoP and nationally.
- I was a membership of the HEA Employer Engagement Facilitation Group and the HEA Education for Sustainable Development Planning Group.
- Experience of liaising with employers and employer representative bodies in relation to my work on employability and employer engagement.
- Brokering relationships between individuals and organisations (e.g. CETLs), and connecting them with useful resources and helping to disseminate their findings.
- HEA funded Employer Engagement Project – scoping the understandings and practices of GEES academics with respect to employer engagement.
- Student Participation in Quality Scotland (SPARQS) - Student Networks Project. Working directly with student reps to help them develop their role.
- Co-written a guide on employability in the GEES disciplines - Gedye, S. & Chalkley, B (2006). Employability within Geography, Earth and Environmental Science. GEES Learning and Teaching Guide. HEA GEES Subject Centre, University of Plymouth.
- Co-written the GEES student employability profiles. These highly successful profiles were developed by Subject Centres and the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE). They now feature on the UCAS and Prospects websites.
- Conducted a literature review on the theme of formative feedback for an educational project at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth (2007).
- Co-edited the GEES Subject Centre publication ‘Planet’ and the GEES Subject Centre ‘Briefings’.
- Co-edited the forthcoming publication ‘The Pedagogy of Climate Change’ with Professor Simon Haslett (Director of the Centre of Excellence in Learning and Teaching, University of Wales, Newport) and Professor Derek France (Geography, University of Chester).
Research interests
Currently investigating the role of the Personal Tutor
Publications
Gedye, S. (2009). GEES and The Credit Crunch. Planet 22, pp2-5.
Gedye, S. (2009). Employer Engagement in the Earth and Environmental Sciences, Planet Special Edition 21, pp3-8.
Tinner W., Bigler C., Gedye S., Gregory-Eeaves I., Jones R.T., Kaltenrieder P., Krähenbühl U., Hu F.S. (2008). A 700-year paleoecological record of boreal ecosystem responses to climatic variatiuon from Alaska. Ecology, 89: pp729–743
Gedye, S. & Chalkley, B (2006). Employability within Geography, Earth and Environmental Science. GEES Learning and Teaching Guide. HEA GEES Subject Centre, University of Plymouth.
Rooney, P., Kneale, P., Gambini, B., Keiffer, A., Vandrasek, B. and Gedye, S. (2006). Variations in International Understandings of Employability for Geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 30, 1, pp133-145.
Croot, D. and Gedye, S. (2006). Getting the Most out of Progress Files and Personal Development Planning. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 30, 1, pp. 173-179.
Gedye, S.J., Fender, E. and Chalkley, B. (2004). Geography and Jobs: Undergraduate expectations and graduate experience. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 28 (3), pp381-396.
Gedye, S.J.; Jones, R.; Tinner, W.; Ammann, B. and Oldfield, F. (2000). The use of mineral magnetism in the reconstruction of fire history: a case study from Lago di Origlio, Swiss Alps. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 164, pp101-110.
Tinner, W.; Conedera, M.; Ammann, B.; Gaggeler, H.W.; Gedye, S.J.; Jones, R. and Sagesser, B. (1998). Pollen and charcoal in lake sediments compared with historically documented forest fires in southern Switzerland since AD 1920. The Holocene, 8(1), pp31-42.
Gedye, S.J. and Oldfield, F. (1998). Peat mass balance: a chronological approach. The 1st IGBP PAGES open science meeting. Past global changes and their significance for the future. University of London, UK April 20th-23rd. Abstract. p.67.
Oldfield, F.; Thompson, R.; Crooks, P.R.J.; Gedye, S.J.; Hall, V. A.; Harkness, D.D.; Housley, R.A.; McCormac, F.G.; Newton, A.J.; Pilcher, J.R.; Renberg, I. and Richardson, N. (1997). Radiocarbon dating of a recent high-latitude peat profile: Stor Amyran, northern Sweden. The Holocene. 7(3), pp281-288.
Oldfield, F.; Crooks, P.R.J.; Gedye, S.J.; Jones, R.; Nijampurkar, V.D.; Plater, A.J.; Richardson, N. and Thompson, R. (1995). The geochronology of the last millenium. NERC Special Publication.
Gedye, S.J.; Crooks, P.R.J.; Oldfield, F. and Renberg, I. (1994). Comparison of palaeomagnetic secular variation in recent lake sediments with the historical record. Annales Geophysicae, 12, Supplement 1, pp170.
Conference Papers
Gedye, S. (2009). Employability – The National Picture. Embedding Employability in the Curriculum: Everyone’s Business. University of Ulster, Fac. of Life and Health Sciences T & L Away Day, 16th January, 2009.
Gedye, S. (2009). Engaging Employers and Engaging Students: WRL in the GEES Community. Enhancing L & T through Employer Engagement – Swap Shop. University of Chichester, 13th January, 2009.
Gedye, S. (2008). CPD, Workforce Development and GEES: how do we respond? Employability, Employer Engagement and Enterprise in the GEES disciplines. GEES SC Conference. 2 - 3 July 2008, Edinburgh.
Gedye, S. & King, H. (2004). ‘Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century – Exploring student diversity’. LTSN GEES Subject Centre Annual Conference – Widening Participation and Employability. 5th – 6th July 2004. Warwickshire.
Gedye, S. (2004). ‘Employability in GEES: Staff, Graduate and Undergraduate Perspectives’. Employability and Staff and Educational Development. SEDA. University of Warwickshire.
Gedye, S. (2003) ‘Going on-line: Lessons in blended learning and motivating engagement through assessment’. LTSN-GEES one-day conference. Virtual Learning Environments in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. November 18th 2003, Hornton Grange, University of Birmingham.
Chalkley, B and Gedye, S. (2003). ‘Conducting Employability Audits’. LTSN-GEES. Enhancing Student Employability. A South-West Regional Conference sponsored by ESECT, LTSN-GEES and the University of Plymouth. September 16th 2003 - The Robbins Conference Centre, University of Plymouth.
Gedye, S. J. and Worsley, A. (2003). Customising Personal Development Planning for Geography Undergraduates. Delivering Employability: The Diversity of Approaches in Higher Education, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 9th April 2003.
Other academic activities
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Financial management (£250k) of the JISC/HEA funded Open Educational Resources (OER) C-Change Project for the GEES Subject Centre (2009-10).
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External reviewer for Bath Spa University on their review of the cross-institutional Personal and Academic Development (PAD) award (2007).
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Member of both the Skills Plus and PDP working groups (2003-2004) (University of Plymouth)
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Member of school and university teaching, learning and assessment committees, member of departmental health and safety committee, member of the school research group (Edge Hill University)
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Experience of programme validation and quality assurance assessment
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Responsible for implementing departmental marketing changes for open days and for producing departmental marketing materials in conjunction with the marketing department (Edge Hill University)
