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Research output per year
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Accepting PhD Students
BA (Hons) Recreation Management (Moray House)
PG Diploma in Outdoor Education (Moray House)
PhD (Edinburgh)
Robbie Nicol is Professor of Place-Based Education in Moray House School of Education and Sport.
My life motivation comes from the realisation that human activities are fundamentally altering the planet's ability to sustain us in the long term. As an educator I believe that the outdoors provide places where individuals can rediscover their direct dependence on the planet through embodied experiences. As such my teaching and research interests are directed towards the theoretical development and practical implementation of environmental education, sustainability education and epistemological diversity (different ways of knowing) particularly in the outdoors.
I supervise PhD and MSc students in a range of topics including place-based education, child development, emotional intelligences, the use and application of learning models, and cross-cultural education. I have authored more than 50 articles, co-authored Learning Outside the Classroom, Routledge (2012) and most recently Canoeing Around the Cairngorms: a Circumnavigation of my Home (2016). I have delivered keynote conference addresses in Japan, Sweden, Canada, Slovenia, Denmark, UK, Finland and the Czech Republic.
I am Director of the Shieling Project https://www.theshielingproject.org/
I hold a wide range of national governing body awards in canoeing/kayaking, mountaineering and skiing and maintains an active participation in these activities through journeying.
Research Supervision
I will supervise research under the headings above and currently supervise doctoral students in the following areas:
MSc Programmes in 'Outdoor Education' and 'Outdoor Environmental and Sustaianbility Education'
MSc Learning for Sustainability
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Higgins, P., Beames, S., Nicol, R. & Ross, H.
1/02/11 → 31/12/13
Project: Research