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Dr Jenny Duckworth

Staff Tutor In Environment, Earth And Ecosystems Sciences

School of Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences

jenny.duckworth@open.ac.uk

Biography

Professional biography

Current role 

Staff Tutor in Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences

Associate Lecturer: SXE390 (Environmental Science Practical Project)

Previous role

Associate Lecturer: S206 (Environmental Science), S350 (Evaluating Contemporary Science), S397 (Terrestrial Ecosystems), SDT306 (Environment: Responding to Change)

Qualifications

MA Online and Distance Education - The Open University (2020)

PhD Vegetation Ecology - Lancaster University (1998)

MSc Ecology - University of Durham (1993)

BA (Hons) Pure & Applied Biology - University of Oxford (1990)

Professional Accreditation

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Publications

Journal Article

Evaluation of Higher-Order Skills Development in an Asynchronous Online Poster Session for Final Year Science Undergraduates (2022)

Taxonomic, morphological and structural surrogates for the rapid assessment of vegetation (2006)

Landscape changes in British lowland woodlands over the last century in relation to game management (2003)

Plant functional types: an alternative to taxonomic plant community description in biogeography? (2000)

Changes in the abundance of farmland birds in relation to the timing of agricultural intensification in England and Wales (2000)

Changes in the abundance of farmland birds in relation to the timing of agricultural intensification in England and Wales (2000)

Vegetation Gradients in Atlantic Europe: The Use of Existing Phytosociological Data in Preliminary Investigations on the Potential Effects of Climate Change on British Vegetation (2000)

Modelling the Potential Effects of Climate Change on Calcareous Grasslands in Atlantic Europe (2000)

Vegetation‐environment relationships in Atlantic European calcareous grasslands (2000)

Presentation / Conference

Next slide please! Benefits and challenges of sharing slides before online tutorials (2024)

Unpicking the rubric: Tutor and student experiences of marking grids for assessment on a final year interdisciplinary module (2023)

What does it all mean? Tutor and student experiences of marking grids for assessment on a final year module (2022)

Student and tutor experiences of an online conference in a changing HE landscape (2021)