Role
Dissemination Co-ordinator - GEES Subject Centre
Qualifications & background
2004 BA (Hons) Geography, University of Plymouth
Research interests
Rural Issues
Volunteering
Local action
Work Based Learning
Geography Employability
Widening Participation
Sustainability
Grants & contracts
2006 South West Regional Research Priorities Board (SWRRRPB) completed june 2006 Rural Research in the South West of England
2006 Research on Dr Richard Yarwood’s Nuffield Foundation grant to study 'Voluntarism, serivce provision and rurality: a study of mountain rescue teams in Britain'.
2007-8 Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF), funded research project on Sustainable Development and Pedagogy in Higher Education (with Dr Debby Cotton, Dr Ian Bailey, Mr Martin Warren)
2007 Research project: The role of the information intermediary in rural access to online services. Pilot study funded by Seale-Hayne Educational Trust. With Martyn Warren (project lead).
2008 Research on a Seale Hayne Educational Trust Project working for Dr Richard Yarwood and Dr James Sidaway entitled The geography of ‘green’ funerals sites in Rural England: a case study of the South West
Publications
Cotton, D., Bailey, I., Warren, M. & Bissell, S. (2009) Revolutions and second-best solutions: Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education. Studies in Higher Education 34 (7): 719-733 (Abstract
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Editor GEES Subject Centre Publication Planet 22 September 2009
Editor GEES Subject Centre Publication Planet 23 Special Edition: Assessment for Learning in the GEES Disciplines December 2010
Editor GEES Subject Centre Publication Planet 24, In press
Reports & invited lectures
Presentations
Cotton, D., Bissell, S., Bailey, I. & Warren, M. (2008) Sustainability in Higher Education: the search for a 'second best' solution. All our Futures Conference, University of Plymouth, UK.
Bissell. S (2008) Employability in the Curriculum. Employability, Employer Engagement and Enterprise in the GEES Disciplines, GEES Subject Centre Conference, Edinburgh, UK
Bissell. S (2007) 'Geography Futures' Geography at School and University' GA Annual Conference
Bissell, S., Cotton, D., Warren, M., Bailey, I. and Maibouroda, O. (2006) Transforming an Institution: Integrating Sustainable Development into Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL) Conference, 9th to 12th November, Washington, US.
Warren, M., Kagawa, F., Cotton, D., Bailey, I., Maibouroda, O., and Bissell, S. (2006) Using research to inform institutional change. The VC's Learning and Teaching Conference, 30th June, University of Plymouth, UK.
Warren,M., Cotton,D., Maibouroda, O., Bailey, I. and Bissell, S. (2006) Embedding an Ethical Issue in the Curriculum: Lecturers and the Sustainabilty Agenda. 8th European Conference on Higher Agricultural Education (ECHAE), 13th to16th September, Czech University of Agriculture, Prague.
Gray-Donald, J., Bailey, I., Bissell, S., Cotton, D., Kagawa, F., Warren, M. & Maibouroda, O. (2007) Understandings, attitudes and experiences of ESD: Results of Research at the University of Plymouth and an invitation to an international research project. Sustainability Conference, 4-7 January, University of Madras, Chennai, India.
Cotton, D., Bissell, S., Bailey, I. & Warren, M. (2008) Sustainability in Higher Education: the search for a 'second best' solution. All our Futures Conference, University of Plymouth, UK.
Conferences organised
Conferences
19th January 2011 - Geoscience Graduates for the 21st Centaury Conference (GEES Subject Centre UK Conference held at University of Leeds)
3rd November 2010 - NSS Issues for GEES conference (GEES Subject Centre UK Conference held at University of Manchester)
7 - 9th July 2010 - GEES Learning and Teaching to 2020 - GEES Subject Centre 10 year anniversary conference (GEES Subject Centre UK Conference held at University of Plymouth)
6 -7th July 2010 - Early Career Lecturers Workshop (GEES Subject Centre UK Conference held at University of Plymouth)
29th April 2010 - C-Change in GEES event (GEES Subject Centre UK Conference held at Macdonald Hotel in Manchester)
20th January 2010 - Overcoming Barriers to Learning in the Geosciences (GEES Subject Centre UK Conference held at University of Birmingham)
7 - 9th September 2009 - Change Event (co organised GEES Subject Centre UK Conference held at University of Manchester)
22nd June 2009 - Assessment for Learning in the GEES Disciplines (GEES Subject Centre UK Conference held at the University of Manchester)
May 2009 - New Lecturers Workshop (GEES Subject Centre UK Conference held at University of Birmingham)
July 2008 - Geography 6th Form Conference (University of Plymouth)
April 2008 - Rural Futures; Dreams Dilemmas and Dangers (International Conference, UoP)
June 2007 - Geography 6th Form Conference (University of Plymouth)
April 2006 - The Rural Citizen: governance, culture and wellbeing in the 21st century (International Conference, UoP)
Public Lectures
11th November 2004 - Supermarkets Rule OK, Professor Tim Lang, HSBC Farm Management Lecture (University of Plymouth)
9th March 2005 - Agriculture, Biodiversity and Economic Development: can sustainability make a difference?, Professor Jules Pretty, Andrew Errington Memorial Lecture (University of Plymouth)
9th November 2005 - Adapting to change: food, farming and government, Tim Bennett (University of Plymouth)
8th March 2006 - What Future for Rural Services? A Scenario for 2015, Professor Malcolm Moseley, Andrew Errington Memorial Lecture (University of Plymouth)
19th March 2007 - Collaborations in supermarket supply chains: what we know, what we think we know and what we need to know, Andrew Errington Memorial Lecture (University of Plymouth)
1st April 2008 - Rural Futures: Dreams, Dilemmas, Dangers, Andrew Errington Memorial Lecture (University of Plymouth)
