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Profiles
Dr Nichola Harmer
Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Role
Lecturer in Human Geography
Qualifications
PhD Human Geography, Plymouth University, 2013.
MA Politics (International Relations), University of Exeter, 1993.
BA (Hons) American Studies (Literature), University of Sussex, 1989.
PGCAP Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Plymouth 2017
Professional membership
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with IBG
Fellow of Advance HE
Teaching interests
I teach on a range of core Geography modules, including Stage One Introduction to Practising Geography (GGX1202), the immersive Stage One Sustainable Futures module (GEES1003PP), and the Stage Two Ireland field trip. I am a personal tutor across the undergraduate stages for our Geography with International Relations students. I lead and teach a Stage Four Political Geography module (GGH3206) on the development and challenges to the modern state. I supervise undergraduate dissertations in Human Geography and supervise masters level dissertations in International Relations and Sustainable Environmental Management. I also teach on the in MRes Human Geography. I am currently Director of Studies for one PhD student researching identity narratives in river borderlands and I am second supervisor for a second PhD student who is examining the impacts of fracking on rural communities in the UK.
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2018
'The value of 'having a go': Trialling a project-based learning activity to inform curriculum design'
Journal of Geoscience Education
66,
(4)
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Spaces of concern: Parliamentary discourse on Britain's overseas territories'
Geographical Journal
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'“You don't want to peer over people's shoulders, it feels too rude!”: the moral geographies of using participants’ personal smartphones in research'
Area
51,
(1)
131-141
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Designing New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme'
Global Environmental Politics
17,
(3)
31-50
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Crude geopolitics: territory and governance in post-peak oil imaginaries'
Territory, Politics, Governance
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'“Choice may not necessarily be a good thing”: student attitudes to autonomy in interdisciplinary project-based learning in GEES disciplines'
Journal of Geography in Higher Education
40,
(4)
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'‘ECO’ FOR WHOM? Envisioning Eco-urbanism in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China'
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
, DOI
2015
'Community resilience and land degradation in forest and shrublandsocio-ecological systems: Evidence from Gorgoglione, Basilicata, Italy'
Land Use Policy
46,
11-20
Publisher Site
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Distant Relations: Identity and Materiality in Elite Discourse on Britain's Overseas Territories'
Global Society
, DOI
2014
'Climate Change Response at the Farm Level: A Review of Farmers’ Awareness and Adaptation Strategies in Developing Countries'
Geography Compass
8,
(11)
808-822
, DOI
PEARL
2014
'The Benefits and Challenges of Project-Based Learning: a Review of the Literature'
PedRIO Paper 6
Publisher Site
Chapters
2017
'‘Spatialising urban sustainability transitions: eco-cities, multilevel
perspectives and the political ecology of scale in the Bohai Rim, China''
in Frantzeskaki N; Castan-Broto E; Coenen L; Loorbach D
Urban Sustainability Transitions
Routledge
2017
'Adopting and designing New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme'
in Wettestad J; Gulbrandsen LH
The Evolution of Carbon Markets: Design and Diffusion
London and New York
Routledge
105-123