Changemakers and change agents: encouraging students as researchers through Changemaker's programmes. Issue 4 (2nd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Thorogood, Joe; Azuma, Fumika; Collins, Charlotte; Plyushteva, Anna; Marie, Jenny
• Is Part Of: Journal of geography in higher education. Volume 42:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 540
• Page End: 556
• Publication Date: 2018-10-02
• Subjects: Research-led teaching -- active learning -- changemakers; Geography -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Periodicals; 910.711
• DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2018.1460804
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0309-8265

Abstract

Abstract: This paper examines the role played by a student-organized research conference in the age of research-led teaching and active learning. Drawing on our experiences of organizing two departmental conferences in Geography in March 2016 and March 2017, we begin to outline how institutional support and funding for student-led "Changemakers" projects can not only introduce students to specific aspects of research (in the case of our conference, to disseminating and communicating research findings), but also encourage collaboration and mutual support outside of formal staff-student hierarchies of teaching, learning and marking.