Professor Gregory Mannion

Professor

Education University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Gregory Mannion

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About me

SHORT BIO I have spent all of my professional career in education. First, I taught as a primary school teacher in Ireland for ten years between 1986- 1996. Whilst a teacher, I designed in-service environmental education CPD using the outdoors as the key educational context. My own doctorate at University of Stirling (completed 1999) looked at pupils’ participation in changing outdoor places. Since then I have worked as a researcher and senior lecturer and I now work in the Faculty of Social Sciences - Education. Currently, I teach on the EdD, MRes (Educational Research) and on the Initial Teacher Education programme (primary); I supervise students at masters and doctorate level.

RESEARCH INTERESTS My substantive research interests include: young people's participation in change, the place-related dimensions of learning and human-environment interaction, outdoor and environmental learning, education for sustainable development and global citizenship, rights-based education, citizen science & learning, intergenerational /child-adult relations, learners’ experiences of formal and non-formal education, visual and participatory research. I take a broadly 'new materialist' approach to ontological and epistemological issues in research.

LINK Profile / Papers Link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Greg-Mannion

FUNDING I have received funding as PI or Co-PI from various government bodies and councils. I have gained funding for many doctoral candidates (ESRC. IAS, and charity funding).

To date, major project funding (over £2M) for studies has come from the Economic and Social Research Council and the Medical Research Council.

Other funding Bodies: Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Government, Generations Working Together, Ernest Cook Trust, Learning through Landscapes.

PROJECTS Past Project Examples:

Teaching Learning and Play in the Outdoors https://www.nature.scot/naturescot-commissioned-report-779-teaching-learning-and-play-outdoors-survey-school-and-pre-school

Literacies for Learning in Further Education: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lflfe/description/introduction.htm

Current project example:

GOALD: Connectivity and Digital Design for Health and Well-being Across Generations, Places and Spaces https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/centre-for-health-technology/goald

DOCTORAL RESEARCH Some of my completed and on-going doctoral students and their focal areas are noted here:

Biodiversity loss and eduction.IAS funded. Sophia Georgescu

Polli:Nation Project: Environmental education via citizen science and conservation - Andy Ruck

Active play in lower secondary schools. Patrizio deRossi (ESRC funded)

Armed forces' children's experience of education - Evelyn Cook, (RCET charity / ESRC funded. )

Photographs and their role in supporting learning - Matthew Sowerby.

Education in Outdoor Settings: The role of the teacher in more-than-human curriculum making - Jonathan Lynch

The role of the school nurse. Alison Hackett (Co-supervised with Heath - K Stoddart)

National Park Visitor Behaviour and Capercaillie Conservation - (ESRC funded) (Co supervised with Prof Nils Bunnefeld, Natural Sciences) Will Smith

Anastasia Fjodorova is researching the experiences of students and staff of fine arts degrees (Co-supervised with Dr M Michael)

Carol Gallagher is researching the role of arts-based provisions outdoors for women who are prison-experienced (Co-supervised with Dr M Michael)

Some of my substantive research interests include: the place-related dimensions of learning and human-environment interaction, outdoor and environmental learning, education for sustainable development and global citizenship, rights-based education, citizen science learning, child-adult relations, learners’ experienes of formal and non-formal education, visual and participatory research methods. I take a broadly 'new materialist' approach to ontological and epistemological issues in research.   

Research projects (14)

Chitetetzo: improving adolescent road safety and reducing road traffic collisions
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Teaching, Learning and Play in the Outdoors 2020 (TLPO) - A Scottish Cross-sectional Sequential Survey
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: NatureScot (Formerly Scottish Natural Heritage)
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GOALD: Connectivity and Digital Design for Health and Well-being Across Generations, Places and Spaces
PI: Professor Catherine Hennessy
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Participation in Decision Making in Educational Settings: beyond learner voice and pupil councils
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: Delegates - Conferences
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Learner Participation in Educational Settings: Supporting and researching policy implementation in in the pilot phase
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: Scottish Government
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Guidance for Educators on the Participation of Children and Young People
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: Education Scotland
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Teaching, Learning and Play in the Outdoors: a national survey of provisions in schools and pre-schools
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: NatureScot (Formerly Scottish Natural Heritage)
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Making Sense of Place: supporting schools to develop geocache trails for place-responsive science education
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: The Primary Science Teaching Trust
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How young people’s participation in school supports achievement and attainment
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: Scotlands Commissioner For Children & Young People
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Stories in the Land
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: The Ernest Cook Trust
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HEA Curriculum for Excellence Scholarship Scheme
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: Higher Education Academy
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Scoping a Framework for Children and Young People's Participation in Scotland
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: Scotlands Commissioner For Children & Young People
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Teaching in Nature
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: NatureScot (Formerly Scottish Natural Heritage)
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Intergenerational Place-based Education: where schools, communities and nature meet
PI: Professor Gregory Mannion
Funded by: Scottish Centre for Intergenerational Practice
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Outputs (58)

Research Report

Teaching, Learning and Play in the Outdoors: a survey of provision in 2022

Mannion G, Sowerby M, McNicol S, Lambert P & Ramjan C (2024) Teaching, Learning and Play in the Outdoors: a survey of provision in 2022. NatureScot. NatureScot Research Report, 1313. Inverness: NatureScot. https://www.nature.scot/doc/naturescot-research-report-1313-teaching-learning-and-play-outdoors-survey-provision-scotland-2022

Article

Generations Active Together: An Example of Using Physical Activity Promotion and Digital Technology to Bring Together Adolescents and Older People in Stirling, Scotland

Tomaz SA, Taylor L, Ryde GC, Bradwell HL, Cooper L, Coffee P, Mannion G, Hennessy C, Haynes R, Whittaker AC & GOALD Project (2024) Generations Active Together: An Example of Using Physical Activity Promotion and Digital Technology to Bring Together Adolescents and Older People in Stirling, Scotland. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1080/15350770.2024.2322442

Article

Play, Learn, and Teach Outdoors-Network (PLaTO-Net): terminology, taxonomy, and ontology

Lee E, de Lannoy L, Li L, de Barros MIA, Bentsen P, Brussoni M, Fiskum TA, Guerrero M, Hallås BO, Ho S, Jordan C, Leather M, Mannion G, Moore SA, Sandseter EBH, Spencer NLI, Waite S, Wang P & Tremblay MS (2022) Play, Learn, and Teach Outdoors-Network (PLaTO-Net): terminology, taxonomy, and ontology. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 19 (1), Art. No.: 66. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-022-01294-0

Book Chapter

Learning spaces: built, natural and digital considerations for learning and learners

Kraftl P, McKenzie M, Gulson K, Accioly I, Blackmore J, Burke C, Perrotta C, Clarke DAG, Daniels H, Olmo Fregoso Bailon R, Goodyear V, Goodyear P, Gunasekara I, Hartong S & Mannion G (2022) Learning spaces: built, natural and digital considerations for learning and learners [Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence based Education Assessment.]. In: Duraiappah AK, van Atteveldt NM, Borst G, Bugden S, Ergas O, Gilead T, Gupta L, Mercier J, Pugh K, Singh NC & Vickers EA (eds.) Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence based Education Assessment. New Dehli: UNESCO, pp. 452-549. https://d1c337161ud3pr.cloudfront.net/files%2F8469b7d1-c42d-446c-97f5-87775cf28f49_ISEE%20Assessment%20-%20Working%20Group%203.pdf

Book Chapter

Childhoodnature Pedagogies and Place: An Overview and Analysis

Stevenson RB, Mannion G & Evans N (2018) Childhoodnature Pedagogies and Place: An Overview and Analysis. In: Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles A, Malone K & Barratt Hacking E (eds.) Research Handbook on Childhoodnature; Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education book series (SIHE). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51949-4_76-1

Book Chapter

The primacy of place in education in outdoor settings

Mannion G & Lynch J (2016) The primacy of place in education in outdoor settings. In: Humberstone B, Prince H & Henderson K (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Outdoor Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 85-94. https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138782884

Book Chapter

Intergenerational Education and Learning: We Are In A New Place

Mannion G (2016) Intergenerational Education and Learning: We Are In A New Place. In: Punch S, Vanderbeck R R & Skelton T (eds.) Family, Intergenerationality and Peer-Group Relations. Geographies of Children and Young People, 5. London: Springer, pp. 1-21. http://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-981-4585-92-7

Book Chapter

Towards Glocal Pedagogies: Some Risks Associated with Education for Global Citizenship and How Glocal Pedagogies Might Avoid Them

Mannion G (2015) Towards Glocal Pedagogies: Some Risks Associated with Education for Global Citizenship and How Glocal Pedagogies Might Avoid Them. In: Friedman J, Haverkate V, Oomen B, Park E & Sklad M (eds.) Going Glocal in Higher Education: the theory, teaching and measurement of global citizenship. Middelburg, The Netherlands: University College Roosevelt, pp. 19-34.

Book Chapter

Place-responsive Intergenerational Education

Mannion G & Gilbert J (2014) Place-responsive Intergenerational Education. In: Vanderbeck RM R & Worth N (eds.) Intergenerational Space. Routledge Studies in Human Geography, 50. London: Routledge, pp. 228-241. https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415855310

Research Report

Career-long Professional Learning for Teaching Outdoors

Mannion G (2013) Career-long Professional Learning for Teaching Outdoors. Higher Education Academy. A Curriculum for Excellence Scholarship Project: Strengthening Partnerships Across Scotland’s Education Sectors (SPASES). Online.

Research Report

Children and Young People's Participation in Scotland: Frameworks, standards and principles for practice - SUMMARY

Mannion G (2012) Children and Young People's Participation in Scotland: Frameworks, standards and principles for practice - SUMMARY [Children and Young People’s Participation in Scotland: Frameworks, standards and principles for practice (Summary Report)]. Scotlands Commissioner For Children & Young People. -, -. Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People. http://www.sccyp.org.uk/downloads/Adult%20Reports/Children__YPs_Participation_-_Summary_Report.pdf

Article

Curriculum Making as the Enactment of Dwelling in Places

Ross H & Mannion G (2012) Curriculum Making as the Enactment of Dwelling in Places. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 31 (3), pp. 303-313. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=yv4JPVwI&eid=2-s2.0-84861005663&md5=51378b76c0fac457609d9e2751ae89ae; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-012-9295-6

Research Report

Teaching in nature

Mannion G, Fenwick A, Nugent C & I'Anson J (2011) Teaching in nature. Commissioned Report, 476. Inverness: Scottish Natural Heritage. http://www.snh.gov.uk/publications-data-and-research/publications/search-the-catalogue/publication-detail/?id=1839

Book Chapter

Education in a Global Space: The Framing of 'Education for Citizenship'

Priestley M, Mannion G, Biesta G & Ross H (2010) Education in a Global Space: The Framing of 'Education for Citizenship'. In: Wisely T, Barr I, Britton A & King B (eds.) Education in a Global Space: Research and Practice in Initial Teacher Education. Edinburgh: International Development Education Association of Scotland (IDEAS)/SCOTDEC, pp. 27-36. http://www.seedsforlearning.org.uk/product/930

Article

The scrumpled geography of literacies for learning

Edwards R, Ivanic R & Mannion G (2009) The scrumpled geography of literacies for learning. Discourse, 30 (4), pp. 483-499. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=yv4JPVwI&eid=2-s2.0-70949094083&md5=73172ecf60bd784d4ccd156a65eb807d; https://doi.org/10.1080/01596300903237248

Authored Book

Improving Learning in College: Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum

Ivanic R, Edwards R, Barton D, Martin-Jones M, Fowler Z, Hughes B, Mannion G, Miller K, Satchwell C & Smith J (2009) Improving Learning in College: Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum. Improving Learning. London: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415469128/

Research Report

Young people’s interaction with natural heritage through outdoor learning

Mannion G, Sankey K, Doyle L & Mattu L (2007) Young people’s interaction with natural heritage through outdoor learning. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report, (ROAME No. F06AB03), 225. Inverness: Scottish Natural Heritage. http://www.snh.gov.uk/publications-data-and-research/publications/search-the-catalogue/publication-detail/?id=877

Book Chapter

Education and Learning for Social Inclusion

Mannion G (2005) Education and Learning for Social Inclusion. In: Barry M (ed.) Youth Policy and Social Inclusion: Critical Debates with Young People. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp. 73-91.

Book Chapter

Beyond the Disneyesque: does children’s participation alter the state of adults’ learning?

Mannion G & I'Anson J (2002) Beyond the Disneyesque: does children’s participation alter the state of adults’ learning?. In: Murphy M, Edwards R, Gray P, Morgan-Klein B & Tett L (eds.) Cultures, Communities and Citizens: the Altered States of Adult Education: Papers from the 32nd Annual Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults. Stirling: University of Stirling.

Book Review

Learning communities in education

Mannion G (2001) Learning communities in education. Review of: Learning Communities in Education. Edited by John Retallick, Barry Cocklin and Kennece Coombe. London and New York: Routledge. 1999. 297pp. ISBN 0-415-1976-0.. British Journal of Educational Studies, 49 (1), pp. 102-103. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8527.t01-1-00165

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