Harry West
Biographic Data
| ID | 85297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9729-2825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring the use of generative AI podcasts to support students learning
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is transforming higher education pedagogy, through increased use, curriculum design and engagement. While it can enhance geographical thinking and spatial analysis, concerns exist about superficial learning and effectiveness. This paper examines the pedagogical value of GenAI-generated audio resources, presenting a case study from a second-year undergraduate geography module in a UK university, “Climate …
Critical military subjects? Reflections on critical thinking and thinking critically in professional military education
Security and Global Affairs
Invisible bodies of war: British servicewomen on covert operations in Northern Ireland
Women were employed to operate covertly with British security forces and paramilitary organisations during the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1968–1998). However, the experiences and legacies of British servicewomen on conventional and covert operations during the Troubles are notably under-researched, even in comparison to recent scholarship on women in paramilitary organisations. This paper explores the politics of visibility on military ‘front …
The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice
Many interventions have been developed by staff to support students in understanding assessment task requirements and summative and formative feedback. However, to various extents, these approaches assume a shared understanding of the, often indeterminate, language used in assessment. This article reports on a project, which aimed to explore students’ confidence in interpreting frequently used language in assessment and feedback documentation and…
Petticoat patrols’: Cultural memory and the politics of commemoration
Northern Irish society continues to navigate a competition to control the post-conflict legacy where contested histories attempt to satisfy diverse agendas. Within this deeply contested public memory, the women of the Ulster Defence Regiment, otherwise known as the Greenfinches, and their stories, have remained largely hidden. In 2023, the authors came together as researchers and a heritage practitioner to prepare a research showcase of previousl…
Embracing emotions in geography higher education: A systematic review of progress and opportunities
Counterinsurgency at a critical juncture
Hidden violence and silenced voices: Why have lessons about women in counterinsurgency not endured
Magnolia Walls and Military Wives: Theatre-as-Method in Critical Military Studies
Creative research methodologies in critical military studies
Encountering research in Northern Ireland
As Northern Ireland marks 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement was signed, the political afterlife of the conflict persists in affecting the everyday lives of communities, kept alive through individual and institutional memories and stories. With state archives continuing to be released and living actors in the conflict still available to interview, they offer opportunities and challenges for researchers trying to understand the Troubles to n…
The Non-Combatant on the ‘Front Line’: British Servicewomen During the Troubles in Northern Ireland”
Critical scholarship recognises women’s longstanding but unacknowledged presence on the “front line” but tends to explore what it means for the individual rather than why the military institution is invested in this myth. This paper draws on 20 interviews with female veterans of the Troubles and extensive archival material. It examines how servicewomen’s war labour was controlled by the British Army, by policy that kept them unarmed and wearing s…
Evidence That Pervasive Body Gaze Behavior in Heterosexual Men Is a Social Marker for Implicit, Physiological, and Explicit Sexual Assault Propensities
Deliberate and effortful attempts to gaze at the bodies of women is emerging as a valuable marker of sexual objectification in men. Some preliminary evidence suggests that pervasive body gaze behavior may also accompany insidious attitudes which can facilitate sexual assault. The present study aimed to further explore this potential by examining pervasive body gaze associations with explicit, implicit, and physiological sexual assault propensity …
A Negotiated Gender Order: British Army Control of Servicewomen in ‘Front Line’ Counterinsurgency, 1948–2014
This conceptual paper critically analyses how the British Army exercises control over the production of knowledge about women’s war labour in ‘front line combat’ and how women exert agency to resist this. 2018 saw all British military roles opened to women, yet it is a myth to say that women are only now able to serve in ‘front line combat’. The paper reveals a complex negotiated gender order or ‘bargain’ between the British Army and servicewomen…
Pandemic pedagogies: Reflecting on online learning using the community of inquiry framework
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in profound disruption to geography higher education. A pivot to online teaching required staff to rapidly adapt their practices to novel digital spaces. Whilst many studies have reported the different pedagogic approaches adopted, fewer have evaluated the resultant student learning experience. In this study, we aimed to create an evidence base regarding the benefits and challenges of online learning during the pand…
Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic
This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key registers; courageous and compassionate pedagogies. Our premise is that understanding in more nuanced form the approaches we took to creating courageous and compassionate education during the pandemic m…
Voices of veteran researchers
KEYWORDS: Veteranresearchreflexiveidentitypositionality Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and Volkswagen Foundation
Deeply odd: Women Veterans as Critical Feminist Scholars
A series of conversations between two women veterans triggered a realization that our military service had been ‘deeply odd’. Jointly authored by a historian and a social scientist, both have served in different services, through different conflicts, for different lengths and left for different reasons. Nonetheless, they have been fascinated by the parallels in their experiences of transition from military service to the academic researcher. This…
How to thrive when studying online
The Covid-19 pandemic led to significant changes in higher education institutions, with a rapid pivot from on-campus to online teaching and learning. The move to predominantly online teaching resulted in a very different learning experience for many campus-based students, offering new opportunities and challenges. This Directions article is co-written by a student-staff partnership team and shares advice on how to thrive when studying online. The…
GeogEd: A new research group founded on the reciprocal relationship between geography education and the geographies of education
In 2019, the Higher Education Research Group (HERG) formally became the Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd). What may appear as a simple change in name masks a renewed understanding of the synergies between geography education (at all levels) and the geographies of education. In this paper we contextualise that change through the relationships between the two inter‐related fields. We suggest that these fields are integrally linked, it…
The history of the Higher Education Research Group of the UK Royal Geographical Society: The changing status and focus of geography education in the academy
The opening paper in our special section sets the scene for the discussions that follow by evidencing and reflecting on the history of the Higher Education Research Group. We report on the purpose of the Group when it was established in the late 1970s as the Higher Education Learning Working Party, and trace its development to late 2019 when its members voted to change the name of the Group to the Geography and Education Research Group. Through a…
Re‐naming and re‐framing: Evolving the “Higher Education Research Group” to the “Geography & Education Research Group”
At the Higher Education Research Group (HERG) Annual General Meeting on the 29 August 2018, it was proposed that the Research Group might consider broadening its remit to consider a wider context of geography education and formally include the geographies of education. In this editorial, we outline the background to this proposal and the process which was undertaken to evolve from HERG to the Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd) over t…
Camp follower or counterinsurgent? Lady Templer and the forgotten wives
British counterinsurgency thinking today remains strongly influenced by the Malaya Emergency (1948–1960) but little-known is the extensive women’s outreach program, pioneered by Lady Templer, involving the Women’s Institute and British Red Cross. Through discourse analysis of archival records, this article identifies four discourses characterizing British women’s participation, used, at the time, to make acceptable their presence whilst distancin…
Improving the student learning experience through dialogic feed-forward assessment
Assessment feedback from teachers gains consistently low satisfaction scores in national surveys of student satisfaction, with concern surrounding its timeliness, quality and effectiveness. Equally, there has been heightened interest in the responsibility of learners in engaging with feedback and how student assessment literacy might be increased. We present results from a five-year longitudinal mixed methods enquiry, thematically analysing semi-…
Pedagogic partnership in higher education: Encountering emotion in learning and enhancing student wellbeing
Despite emotion being recognized as fundamental to learning, the affective aspects of learning have often been side-lined in higher education. In the context of rising student wellbeing challenges, exploring ways of supporting students and their emotions in learning is increasingly significant. Pedagogic partnerships have the potential to help students to recognize and work with their emotions in their learning in a positive manner. As such, peda…
Sorcery of Construction and Socialist Modernization: Ways of Understanding Power in Postcolonial Mozambique
In this article I examine how rural Mozambicans in the Mueda plateau region experienced the socialist modernization policies of FRELIMO, the anti-colonial guerrilla movement that eventually took power over the postindependence Mozambican state. In interpreting and engaging with the dramatic transformations brought on by FRELIMO socialism, Muedans often drew on the familiar language of sorcery, notwithstanding FRELIMO attempts to banish sorcery-re…
Deeply odd: Women Veterans as Critical Feminist Scholars
A series of conversations between two women veterans triggered a realization that our military service had been ‘deeply odd’. Jointly authored by a historian and a social scientist, both have served in different services, through different conflicts, for different lengths and left for different reasons. Nonetheless, they have been fascinated by the parallels in their experiences of transition from military service to the academic researcher. This…
Pedagogic partnership in higher education: Encountering emotion in learning and enhancing student wellbeing
Despite emotion being recognized as fundamental to learning, the affective aspects of learning have often been side-lined in higher education. In the context of rising student wellbeing challenges, exploring ways of supporting students and their emotions in learning is increasingly significant. Pedagogic partnerships have the potential to help students to recognize and work with their emotions in their learning in a positive manner. As such, peda…
The history of the Higher Education Research Group of the UK Royal Geographical Society: The changing status and focus of geography education in the academy
The opening paper in our special section sets the scene for the discussions that follow by evidencing and reflecting on the history of the Higher Education Research Group. We report on the purpose of the Group when it was established in the late 1970s as the Higher Education Learning Working Party, and trace its development to late 2019 when its members voted to change the name of the Group to the Geography and Education Research Group. Through a…
GeogEd: A new research group founded on the reciprocal relationship between geography education and the geographies of education
In 2019, the Higher Education Research Group (HERG) formally became the Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd). What may appear as a simple change in name masks a renewed understanding of the synergies between geography education (at all levels) and the geographies of education. In this paper we contextualise that change through the relationships between the two inter‐related fields. We suggest that these fields are integrally linked, it…
Creative research methodologies in critical military studies
Voices of veteran researchers
KEYWORDS: Veteranresearchreflexiveidentitypositionality Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and Volkswagen Foundation
Becoming an effective Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) Leader
This paper, written by two former Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) Leaders and a PAL Tutor, will support any geographer considering a PAL role. It reflects our experiences of participating in a PAL scheme at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, and research conducted with Geography PAL Leaders over two academic years (2012-2014). Overall, we found being a PAL Leader was positive, good fun, sociable and had positive benefits in terms of…
Encountering research in Northern Ireland
As Northern Ireland marks 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement was signed, the political afterlife of the conflict persists in affecting the everyday lives of communities, kept alive through individual and institutional memories and stories. With state archives continuing to be released and living actors in the conflict still available to interview, they offer opportunities and challenges for researchers trying to understand the Troubles to n…
Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic
This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key registers; courageous and compassionate pedagogies. Our premise is that understanding in more nuanced form the approaches we took to creating courageous and compassionate education during the pandemic m…
Re‐naming and re‐framing: Evolving the “Higher Education Research Group” to the “Geography & Education Research Group”
At the Higher Education Research Group (HERG) Annual General Meeting on the 29 August 2018, it was proposed that the Research Group might consider broadening its remit to consider a wider context of geography education and formally include the geographies of education. In this editorial, we outline the background to this proposal and the process which was undertaken to evolve from HERG to the Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd) over t…
Preparing for multi-disciplinary undergraduate research conferences
This is the first of two articles that offer guidance to help you maximize the benefits from participating in multi-disciplinary conferences. In this paper, we explain why you might wish to participate, identify the usual conference format and preparation process, and talk you through the steps you should take to prepare an effective verbal or poster presentation
Making the most of multi-disciplinary undergraduate research conferences
This is the second of two Directions articles, which together offer guidance to help you gain the maximum benefit from participating in institutional and national multi-disciplinary undergraduate research conferences. The article focuses on how to make the most of these excellent opportunities when you are participating. To do this, you need to understand the importance of networking and engaging with the full conference programme. You also need …
Hidden violence and silenced voices: Why have lessons about women in counterinsurgency not endured
Magnolia Walls and Military Wives: Theatre-as-Method in Critical Military Studies
The Non-Combatant on the ‘Front Line’: British Servicewomen During the Troubles in Northern Ireland”
Critical scholarship recognises women’s longstanding but unacknowledged presence on the “front line” but tends to explore what it means for the individual rather than why the military institution is invested in this myth. This paper draws on 20 interviews with female veterans of the Troubles and extensive archival material. It examines how servicewomen’s war labour was controlled by the British Army, by policy that kept them unarmed and wearing s…
A Negotiated Gender Order: British Army Control of Servicewomen in ‘Front Line’ Counterinsurgency, 1948–2014
This conceptual paper critically analyses how the British Army exercises control over the production of knowledge about women’s war labour in ‘front line combat’ and how women exert agency to resist this. 2018 saw all British military roles opened to women, yet it is a myth to say that women are only now able to serve in ‘front line combat’. The paper reveals a complex negotiated gender order or ‘bargain’ between the British Army and servicewomen…
Pandemic pedagogies: Reflecting on online learning using the community of inquiry framework
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in profound disruption to geography higher education. A pivot to online teaching required staff to rapidly adapt their practices to novel digital spaces. Whilst many studies have reported the different pedagogic approaches adopted, fewer have evaluated the resultant student learning experience. In this study, we aimed to create an evidence base regarding the benefits and challenges of online learning during the pand…
How to thrive when studying online
The Covid-19 pandemic led to significant changes in higher education institutions, with a rapid pivot from on-campus to online teaching and learning. The move to predominantly online teaching resulted in a very different learning experience for many campus-based students, offering new opportunities and challenges. This Directions article is co-written by a student-staff partnership team and shares advice on how to thrive when studying online. The…
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Sorcery and Mozambican Democracy
Banjo Songs of the Southern Mountains
Southern Mountain Folksongs and Ballads
Sorcery of Construction and Socialist Modernization: Ways of Understanding Power in Postcolonial Mozambique
In this article I examine how rural Mozambicans in the Mueda plateau region experienced the socialist modernization policies of FRELIMO, the anti-colonial guerrilla movement that eventually took power over the postindependence Mozambican state. In interpreting and engaging with the dramatic transformations brought on by FRELIMO socialism, Muedans often drew on the familiar language of sorcery, notwithstanding FRELIMO attempts to banish sorcery-re…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: Karam Wins Paper Prize
Sorcery and Mozambican Democracy
Preparing for multi-disciplinary undergraduate research conferences
This is the first of two articles that offer guidance to help you maximize the benefits from participating in multi-disciplinary conferences. In this paper, we explain why you might wish to participate, identify the usual conference format and preparation process, and talk you through the steps you should take to prepare an effective verbal or poster presentation
Becoming an effective Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) Leader
This paper, written by two former Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) Leaders and a PAL Tutor, will support any geographer considering a PAL role. It reflects our experiences of participating in a PAL scheme at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, and research conducted with Geography PAL Leaders over two academic years (2012-2014). Overall, we found being a PAL Leader was positive, good fun, sociable and had positive benefits in terms of…
Making the most of multi-disciplinary undergraduate research conferences
This is the second of two Directions articles, which together offer guidance to help you gain the maximum benefit from participating in institutional and national multi-disciplinary undergraduate research conferences. The article focuses on how to make the most of these excellent opportunities when you are participating. To do this, you need to understand the importance of networking and engaging with the full conference programme. You also need …
Pedagogic partnership in higher education: Encountering emotion in learning and enhancing student wellbeing
Despite emotion being recognized as fundamental to learning, the affective aspects of learning have often been side-lined in higher education. In the context of rising student wellbeing challenges, exploring ways of supporting students and their emotions in learning is increasingly significant. Pedagogic partnerships have the potential to help students to recognize and work with their emotions in their learning in a positive manner. As such, peda…
Writing a successful essay
Writing a successful essay
Improving the student learning experience through dialogic feed-forward assessment
Assessment feedback from teachers gains consistently low satisfaction scores in national surveys of student satisfaction, with concern surrounding its timeliness, quality and effectiveness. Equally, there has been heightened interest in the responsibility of learners in engaging with feedback and how student assessment literacy might be increased. We present results from a five-year longitudinal mixed methods enquiry, thematically analysing semi-…
Camp follower or counterinsurgent? Lady Templer and the forgotten wives
British counterinsurgency thinking today remains strongly influenced by the Malaya Emergency (1948–1960) but little-known is the extensive women’s outreach program, pioneered by Lady Templer, involving the Women’s Institute and British Red Cross. Through discourse analysis of archival records, this article identifies four discourses characterizing British women’s participation, used, at the time, to make acceptable their presence whilst distancin…
How to thrive when studying online
The Covid-19 pandemic led to significant changes in higher education institutions, with a rapid pivot from on-campus to online teaching and learning. The move to predominantly online teaching resulted in a very different learning experience for many campus-based students, offering new opportunities and challenges. This Directions article is co-written by a student-staff partnership team and shares advice on how to thrive when studying online. The…
GeogEd: A new research group founded on the reciprocal relationship between geography education and the geographies of education
In 2019, the Higher Education Research Group (HERG) formally became the Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd). What may appear as a simple change in name masks a renewed understanding of the synergies between geography education (at all levels) and the geographies of education. In this paper we contextualise that change through the relationships between the two inter‐related fields. We suggest that these fields are integrally linked, it…
The history of the Higher Education Research Group of the UK Royal Geographical Society: The changing status and focus of geography education in the academy
The opening paper in our special section sets the scene for the discussions that follow by evidencing and reflecting on the history of the Higher Education Research Group. We report on the purpose of the Group when it was established in the late 1970s as the Higher Education Learning Working Party, and trace its development to late 2019 when its members voted to change the name of the Group to the Geography and Education Research Group. Through a…
Re‐naming and re‐framing: Evolving the “Higher Education Research Group” to the “Geography & Education Research Group”
At the Higher Education Research Group (HERG) Annual General Meeting on the 29 August 2018, it was proposed that the Research Group might consider broadening its remit to consider a wider context of geography education and formally include the geographies of education. In this editorial, we outline the background to this proposal and the process which was undertaken to evolve from HERG to the Geography and Education Research Group (GeogEd) over t…
A Negotiated Gender Order: British Army Control of Servicewomen in ‘Front Line’ Counterinsurgency, 1948–2014
This conceptual paper critically analyses how the British Army exercises control over the production of knowledge about women’s war labour in ‘front line combat’ and how women exert agency to resist this. 2018 saw all British military roles opened to women, yet it is a myth to say that women are only now able to serve in ‘front line combat’. The paper reveals a complex negotiated gender order or ‘bargain’ between the British Army and servicewomen…
Pandemic pedagogies: Reflecting on online learning using the community of inquiry framework
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in profound disruption to geography higher education. A pivot to online teaching required staff to rapidly adapt their practices to novel digital spaces. Whilst many studies have reported the different pedagogic approaches adopted, fewer have evaluated the resultant student learning experience. In this study, we aimed to create an evidence base regarding the benefits and challenges of online learning during the pand…
Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic
This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key registers; courageous and compassionate pedagogies. Our premise is that understanding in more nuanced form the approaches we took to creating courageous and compassionate education during the pandemic m…
Voices of veteran researchers
KEYWORDS: Veteranresearchreflexiveidentitypositionality Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and Volkswagen Foundation
Deeply odd: Women Veterans as Critical Feminist Scholars
A series of conversations between two women veterans triggered a realization that our military service had been ‘deeply odd’. Jointly authored by a historian and a social scientist, both have served in different services, through different conflicts, for different lengths and left for different reasons. Nonetheless, they have been fascinated by the parallels in their experiences of transition from military service to the academic researcher. This…
The Non-Combatant on the ‘Front Line’: British Servicewomen During the Troubles in Northern Ireland”
Critical scholarship recognises women’s longstanding but unacknowledged presence on the “front line” but tends to explore what it means for the individual rather than why the military institution is invested in this myth. This paper draws on 20 interviews with female veterans of the Troubles and extensive archival material. It examines how servicewomen’s war labour was controlled by the British Army, by policy that kept them unarmed and wearing s…
Evidence That Pervasive Body Gaze Behavior in Heterosexual Men Is a Social Marker for Implicit, Physiological, and Explicit Sexual Assault Propensities
Deliberate and effortful attempts to gaze at the bodies of women is emerging as a valuable marker of sexual objectification in men. Some preliminary evidence suggests that pervasive body gaze behavior may also accompany insidious attitudes which can facilitate sexual assault. The present study aimed to further explore this potential by examining pervasive body gaze associations with explicit, implicit, and physiological sexual assault propensity …
Invisible bodies of war: British servicewomen on covert operations in Northern Ireland
Women were employed to operate covertly with British security forces and paramilitary organisations during the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1968–1998). However, the experiences and legacies of British servicewomen on conventional and covert operations during the Troubles are notably under-researched, even in comparison to recent scholarship on women in paramilitary organisations. This paper explores the politics of visibility on military ‘front …
The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice
Many interventions have been developed by staff to support students in understanding assessment task requirements and summative and formative feedback. However, to various extents, these approaches assume a shared understanding of the, often indeterminate, language used in assessment. This article reports on a project, which aimed to explore students’ confidence in interpreting frequently used language in assessment and feedback documentation and…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Higher education (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (9 works) · Mathematics education (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Geography (7 works)