Student Safety During Overseas Fieldwork

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Student Safety During Overseas Fieldwork
Cultural Exchanges Scenarios Actions Dr
David J NashSchool of the EnvironmentUniversity
of Brighton
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Scenario 1 You are a 20 year old male
undergraduate student studying physical
geography, who will be travelling to southern
Morocco for four weeks in August to carry out
work for your final year dissertation. You will
be flying to Marrakech and travelling overland to
your field area with 4 other undergraduates and a
postgraduate student. You will each be staying
with a different Moroccan family and will not be
accompanied by a member of academic staff. You
have not been to Morocco previously, but the
postgraduate student has worked there before and
has a contact in the village where you will be
based. Compile a checklist of the safety issues
you would need to have considered before leaving
the UK
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Scenario 2 You are a senior lecturer in
Development Studies with responsibility for
organising student placement visits. Two of your
female students wish to travel to Malawi during
the summer to undertake teaching work for an
international development agency. They plan to
fly to Lilongwe, where they will be met by a
representative of the agency. They will travel
overland to a rural village where they will stay
in a hostel attached to the school where they
will be teaching. A report on their experiences
is an assessment component contributing to their
final degree. You have never travelled to Malawi
and have not sent students on placement with this
agency previously. Compile a checklist of the
safety issues you would need to have considered
before your students leave the UK
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Edinburgh EH1 3EG.
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