Dr Elizabeth CURTIS The University of Aberdeen School of Education Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 274622 pref elizabeth.curtis@abdn.ac.uk pref Room 524 School of Education University of Aberdeen MacRobert Building 5th Floor King's College Aberdeen AB24 5UA Telephone: 01224 274622 Email: elizabeth.curtis@abdn.ac.uk

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Research Interests

2011 PhD

Bringing stone circles into being: practices in the long 19th century and their influence on current understandings of stone circles in North-East Scotland

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Projects

Co- Investigator AHRC Connected Communities Project: Sustainable Community Heritage in Scotland's North - East: Bennachie and Beyond

Principal Investigator: Gordon Noble, Archaeology

(Working with colleagues in Archaeology, Anthropology, History, King’s Museum and Education)

 This project  involves capacity building, including stimulating interest, expertise and knowledge of local research methodologies with a view to securing a sustainable model for community -led research. Members of the wider community will be directly involved in a current community-centred project run jointly between the University of Aberdeen and a local community group and conservation society the Bailie's of Bennachie. In 2011 the Bennachie Landscapes Project was set up to answer research questions about this iconic landmark and to contribute to contribute to enhancing skills and knowledge competencies in the practice of landscape research within the wider community.

5 key themes linked to public open days /events

Discovering the archives

Introduction to archaeological research techniques

Using community oral history as a research tool

The Curriculum for Excellence: opportunities for learning outdoors with archaeology*

Exploring heritage with creative arts.

*Curriculum for Excellence: Opportunities for Learning Outdoors with Archaeology (led by Liz Curtis and Do Coyle with community archaeologist Colin Shepherd and ranger Fiona Banks).

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Recent Conference and Seminar papers

2012: Seminar and Conference on Teaching for a Globalised World, Nicosia Cyprus, 30^th - 31^st January invitation from TEACH MDGs Project to present on Global Education and Initial Teacher Education.

2011: 2^nd International Conference on Visual Methods, Open University, Milton Keynes, (13-15 September) Visualizing the unseen: exploring practice and understanding through images created by contemporary and 19th century visitors to stone circles in north eastern Scotland.

 

2011: School of Education Lunchtime Seminar, ‘Dancing in the Dark: making sense of time and space in rural Aberdeenshire.’

2010:Cultural History Seminar: Conversations in drawings: Fred Coles, art and archaeological practice at the beginning of the 20^th century

2009: Scottish Archaeological Forum, Roots of Nationhood, University of Glasgow, conference paper, “Stone circle, skulls and Sepulchre: identity and Prehistory in mid-late 19^th century Scotland.”

 

2009: IDEAS Network Conference, Stirling Management Centre “Engaging Student Teachers with the Local Community: A Mapping Approach”

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Membership of National Groups

School of Education Representative on the STEC Global Learning Project (from 2011)

Member of the SQA Social Studies CARG (from 2011)

Part of the Scottish Studies reference group for STEC (from 2011)

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Curtis, EMB. (2007). 'Finding the Curriculum in the Environment: Fieldwork approaches to student learning in Initital Teacher Education'. International Journal of Learning, vol 14, no. 5, pp. 179-189.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Colucci-Gray, L., Curtis, EMB., Gray, DS. & Fraser, CA. (2010). 'Science, citizenship and sustainability: a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to learning and teaching in Higher Education to address issues of sustainability'. T Wisely, A Britton & I Barr (eds), in: Education in a Global Space: Research and Practice in Initial Teacher Education. Scottish Development Education Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
• Curtis, EMB. (2010). 'Engaging Student Teachers with the Local Community: A Mapping Approach'. T Wisely, I Barr, A Britton & B King (eds), in: Education in a Global Space: Research and Practice in Initial Teacher Education. IDEAS, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, pp. 189-194.
• Curtis, EMB. (2008). 'Walking out of the Classroom: learning on the streets of Aberdeen'. T Ingold & J Vergunst (eds), in: Ways of Walking: Ethnography and Practice on Foot. Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception, Ashgate, Aldershot, United Kingdom, pp. 143-154.

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