Dr Meriel FitzPatrick

Personal Tutor for Stage 0 ,1 and 2 students and Project Advisor for Stage 4 dissertations.

Programme Leader for Foundation Year (SoGEES)  

Module Leader for FYM006 (Sustainable Development Project)

Peer Assisted Learning Scheme (PALS) Co-ordinator for Earth Sciences.

Member of the following committees:  SoGEES Teaching and Learning Committee (2017 to date);

                               SoGEES Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (2019 to date)

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• I have extensive teaching experience at undergraduate level (Stages 0-4) in various aspects of geology and this has involved the preparation and presentation of lectures/practical classes in stratigraphy, palaeontology, palynology and sedimentology.  

• I am a Personal tutor to students in stages 0-4. Part of this role involves supporting students and helping them develop the skills/learning strategies they need for university, enabling them to be successful.   
  

• Supporting and teaching students on fieldwork is another important part of my current position, which I thoroughly enjoy. I assist in the staffing and leadership of residential field-trips and local day trips for students at all levels. Residential field-trips I have been involved with include South West England (Stage 1), the Pyrenees and Pembrokeshire (Stage 2), Death Valley (Stage 3) and local day trips for students at all levels.

• I am active in helping the University with its outreach activities, running workshops/lectures for schools and have organised displays and exhibits for various events, more recently running workshops and a fieldtrip for Girls into Geoscience. Working with the next generation of scientists is very rewarding and I hope to inspire at least some of them.