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StuP Project Support |
StuP Project SupportStuP is a self-contained project that supports undergraduate geography students to publish briefing papers and teachers’ resource packs on the environment/geography of the Isle of Bute. It is funded by the LTSN for GEES (the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences). StuP has been conceived as a demonstration project for GEES in the UK and, as such, endeavours to produce transferable resources and guidance that can be used to implement student publishing projects in other departments of geography, earth and environmental sciences. StuP aims to produce useful knowledge: thus, dissemination and utilisation of student writing is of central importance. Outputs are tailored to meet the specific needs of two user groups, i.e. readers with a general interest in geography (briefing papers) and teachers of school geography (teachers’ resource packs). A steering panel has been formed to advise the project leaders and to support StuP to reach user groups. Users are also asked to evaluate the students’ work: some are involved as referees (publication is conditional on an acceptable referee’s report), while on-line readers are asked to evaluate the published work. The transferable resources produced for the GEES Higher Education community in the UK comprise user notes for Lecturers, guidance notes and templates for student authors, guidance notes for first-time (non-academic) referees and a series of templates for the administration of the referee review process. All resources have made freely available as ‘pdf’ and ‘text’ files through this website. |