Higher Education Academy Workshop and Seminar Series 2013/14

This seminar and workshop series explores the pedagogic opportunities opened up by experimenting with innovative interdisciplinary approaches to the literature of space and place.

This timely and interactive event features contributions from lecturers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. It will feed off, and back into, the scholarly and popular interest in landscape writing to explore the pedagogic opportunities opened up by experimenting with innovative interdisciplinary approaches to the literature of space and place.

Interdisciplinary methodologies

Rooting the discussion in our experiences at MMU's Cheshire campus, this participatory event will open up ways in which extant and emerging landscape writing modules might benefit from new and exploratory interdisciplinary methodologies. It will also enable delegates to think further about four key areas of current research interest and contemporary pedagogic practice: 'literary fieldwork'; the thin membrane between critical and creative landscape writing; the exploratory use of digital technologies; and the possibilities of working with, and learning from, non-HEI partners.

Contributors to the programme

Confirmed contributors to the programme include: the geographer, Gary Priestnall (University of Nottingham); the award-winning poet and critic, Eleanor Rees (University of Exeter); and David Cooper (Manchester Metropolitan University). The event will also provide plenty of opportunities for the informal sharing of teaching and learning ideas and experiences.

Alternatively, for informal enquiries and for advice on travel/accommodation, please e-mail Dr David Cooper: