Learning Support for Disabled Students Undertaking Fieldwork and Related Activities

Aims of the Project Project Team Lead Site Consortium Advisors Outputs Funding and Timetable

Lead Site
Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education	Professor Mick Healey	Project Director
	Dr Phil Gravestock	Project Officer
	Claire Reed, Claire Cottingham	Assistant Project Officer
	Dr Jacky Birnie, Dr Tim Hall, Dr Margaret Harrison, Carolyn Roberts	Team members
Consortium
Lancaster University	Dr Gordon Clark
	Terry Wareham
Leicester University	Dr Annie Grant
Liverpool John Moores University	Professor Vince Gardiner
	Naseem Anwar
Middlesex University	Ifan Shepherd
Oxford Brookes University	Professor Alan Jenkins
	Jonathan Leach
University of Central Lancashire	Crissie Laugesen
University of Manchester	Dr Chris Perkins
University of Plymouth	Professor Brian Chalkley
	Judith Waterfield

Advisors

Keith Cooper, Chair of the Disability Action Group at Oxford Brookes University and Head of Student Services (Oxford Brookes University)

Sue Maynard Campbell, Chair of Association of Disabled Professionals, Director of Equal Ability Ltd., Chair of ACDET (Advisory Committee for Disabled People in Employment and Training)

Dr Annie Grant, Director of Educational Development and Support Centre (University of Leicester)

Dr Rob Kitchin, Lecturer in Geography, author of Disability and Geography (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

Professor Reg Golledge, President Association of American Geographers (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Outputs

• Survey report on the experience of departments in supporting disabled students undertaking fieldwork and related activities.
• Six 'Guides' for how departments can best provide learning support for students with different disabilities undertaking fieldwork and related activities:
  1. Issues in providing learning support for disabled students undertaking fieldwork
  2. Providing learning support for students with mobility problems undertaking fieldwork
  3. Providing learning support for blind or visually impaired students undertaking fieldwork
  4. Providing learning support for deaf or hearing impaired students undertaking fieldwork
  5. Providing learning support for students with mental health difficulties undertaking fieldwork
  6. Providing learning support for students with hidden disabilities and dyslexia undertaking fieldwork
  The Guides and Survey Report will be published on the World-Wide Web.
• Case studies of good practice.
• Advisory centre for departments of geography, earth and environmental sciences that are developing learning support strategies for disabled students undertaking fieldwork and related activities.
• A national conference.