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Jenny has worked as an advisor to universities, examination boards, Advance HE and the Quality Assurance Agency. She is passionate about teaching, researching and developing curricula and practice across all disciplines and professional areas.
Jenny researches the area of environmental resource management and is internationally recognised for her scholarship in higher education pedagogies. She has published over 100 journal articles, book chapters and co-edited books. Her Google Scholar h-index is 22 and she has almost 1,700 citations. She purposefully applies the outcomes of her enquiry to educational enhancement and development.
Jenny has chaired the RGS Higher Education (GeogEd) Research Group and is currently a member of the International Editorial Boards for Journal of Geography in Higher Education and Higher Education Pedagogies. She has undertaken a number of national education enhancement roles.
National Teaching Fellow (NTF) (2011)
Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) (2015)
RGS-IBG Taylor and Francis Award for ‘sustained contributions to teaching and learning in UK higher education’ (2019)
Chartered Geographer (CGeog) (2004)
Registered Advance HE Academic Associate (2013)
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) (2001)
Member International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in HE (2006)
Member Society for Research into Higher Education (2016)
Jenny taught undergraduate geographers for 25 years and continues to deliver professional staff development. She believes in participatory pedagogies, encouraging students and teachers to become collaborators and learners, engaging in reciprocal dialogue that is based on the quality and integrity of contributed ideas from all.
There has been heightened interest in the responsibility of learners in engaging with feedback and how student feedback literacy might be increased to secure sustainable assessment. The research Jenny is undertaking with colleagues into relational feedback has found that the approach asserts a positive influence on the student learning experience in a number of inter-related cognitive and affective ways. Student-staff feedback dialogue impacts positively upon learning behaviour, supporting achievement and raising satisfaction with feedback. A relational feedback process offers fertile ground to purposefully encounter emotions and empower students to develop positive feelings, attitudes and learning behaviours, building their resilience and wellbeing.
Jenny is an Advance HE Academic Associate and is currently working as an invited consultant on the national OfS/Advance HE Degree Standards Project. She was also a member of the Advance HE Calibration Development Group. She remains a Geographical Association Consultant.
HE pedagogies particularly related to assessment and feedback, student partnership, graduate competencies and research-based teaching.
Tropical forest fragmentation and conservation.
Committee Member of the RGS Geography and Education Research Group.
Associate Editor for Higher Education Pedagogies (2017-).
Member of the International Editorial Board for Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2011) and Co-Editor of the Directions section.
Member of the editorial board for the undergraduate research journal Geoverse.
Jenny is an Advance HE Registered External Examiner. She has held external examining positions at the University of Exeter (2019-2023), University of Staffordshire (2013-2017) and the University of Worcester (2011-2015). She additionally acts as programme assessor and advisor for quality audits.
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