capital’ of the UK to attract younger Regenerating Liverpool: visitors. What has it done and how Information at successful has it been with this strategy? Watch BBC documentary Article in Tales from the National Parks: Lake District. How being Rebranding of rural areas has Investigating rural rebranding, been carried out this is another GeoFile, 676, Sept 2012 – area to research. Rural rebranding: a case study groups involved in change could from Shropshire in Geograhy include residents associations, Review, 27:1, Sept 2013 heritage associations and social media. Students could research the presence and role of these in their local area. Presentation, Students will be familiar Place studies (weeks 2 9) Quantitative sources – interpretation, analysis with by Richard the principles Harris (2016) of on Two place studies are required: one and communication of the research RGS website design and ways exploring the developing character of a data. to collect data. place local to the home or study centre An overview of quantitative Retrieval and Students will engage with and the other exploring the developing skills is provided in Holmes, D. manipulation of a range of quantitative character of a contrasting and distant (2016) skills for ‘Quantitative secondary datasets. and qualitative resources. place. Geographers’ in Geography Use of geospatial Students will be able to It is a good idea to start constructing the Review: 29, 4. technologies such as critically evaluate data place studies before the end of the digital cartography and categories and topic. Resources on the RGS website G.I.S. approaches. at The use of different Awareness of Holmes, D. 2016 GIS ‘Using types of data allows and big data. with census data’ IN the development of Geography Review, 29:3.
capital’ of the UK to attract younger visitors. What has it done and how successful has it been with this strategy? Watch BBC documentary Tales from the National Parks: Lake District. Rebranding of rural areas has been carried out – this is another area to research. groups involved in change could include residents associations, heritage associations and social media. Students could research the presence and role of these in their local area. Regenerating Liverpool: Information at Article in How being Investigating rural rebranding, GeoFile, 676, Sept 2012 Rural rebranding: a case study from Shropshire in Geograhy Review, 27:1, Sept 2013 Place studies (weeks 2 – 9) Two place studies are required: one exploring the developing character of a place local to the home or study centre and the other exploring the developing character of a contrasting and distant place. It is a good idea to start constructing the place studies before the end of the topic. Presentation, interpretation, analysis and communication of data. Retrieval and manipulation of secondary datasets. Use of geospatial technologies such as digital cartography and G.I.S. The use of different types of data allows the development of Students will be familiar with the principles of research design and ways to collect data. Students will engage with a range of quantitative and qualitative resources. Students will be able to critically evaluate data categories and approaches. Awareness of and big data. Quantitative sources by Richard Harris (2016) on the RGS website An overview of quantitative skills is provided in Holmes, D. (2016) ‘Quantitative skills for Geographers’ in Geography Review: 29, 4. Resources on the RGS website at Holmes, D. 2016 ‘Using GIS with census data’ IN Geography Review, 29:3.
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