A single day's fieldwork in Southwold, supported with a range of pre-recorded virtual videos to help your students prepare for their visit. The course includes all resources, both coastal and human fieldwork equipment and demonstrations. Statistics, GIS and data presentation sessions.

Price per student - from £35.00

Focusing on Southwold's dynamic and constantly changing coastline this hands-on practical course will allow students to experiment with a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection. Ranging from traditional techniques such as beach profiling to assessing coastal erosion using the most modern drone photography.

Price per student - from £25.00

Students will undertake broad range of traditional and modern methods of data collection in and around Southwold's streets. Including use of apps and GIS to create modern forms of data presentation. Classroom sessions compliment the fieldwork to reflect on accuracy, reliability and validity of methods.

Price per student - from £25.00

A 2-day fieldwork course in Southwold designed to enable 2 consecutive days of data collection for the NEA. Supported with a range of pre-recorded virtual videos to help your students prepare in advance for their visit. The course includes all resources, both coastal and human fieldwork equipment and demonstrations. Statistics, GIS and data presentation sessions. (Accommodation not included)

Price per student - from £60.00

An overnight field course with 2 full days of fieldwork to prepare students for completing their NEA's in their own locality. Practical fieldwork sessions include experimenting with a wide range of coastal and human fieldwork techniques. Classroom sessions introduce students to the requirements of the NEA, planning and designing an NEA, sampling, GIS and statistics. Students leave loaded with the skills to confidently complete their own NEA investigations in a landscape of their choice.

Price per student - from £60.00

Our most popular NEA course, a jam-packed fieldtrip! Day 1 introduces students to the requirements of the NEA with classroom sessions on planning and designing an effective study, before conducting a full tour of Southwold highlighting the key geographical issues locally. A wide range of human and coastal methods are demonstrated, whilst further classroom sessions demonstrate the role of sampling and GIS, loading the students with all the tools they need to develop their own investigations. Having developed titles in the evening of day 1, students spend the morning of day 2 designing their itineraries and fine-tuning their studies before undertaking 5-6 hours of primary data collection. A further opportunity for data collection on the morning of day 3 enables students to enhance the reliability of their data and ensures they all leave Southwold with an abundance of data and in a position to begin the write-up of their NEA's.

Price per student - from £80.00

A comprehensive practical fieldwork worskshop designed to fully prepare students for undertaking fieldwork in a location chosen by themselves. Hands-on fieldwork sessions will include a pilot coastal study, a human fieldwork town trail and classroom session on how to design an effective NEA including tips on GIS, statistical analysis and sampling techniques.

Price per student - from £80.00

Our extended residential data collection field course which allows student to time to develop a strong sense of place for Southwold and experiment with a wide range of both coastal and human data collection techniques before designing their own NEA investigations. Students benefit from 2 days of primary data collection complimented by classroom sessions on GIS, statistical analysis and sampling techniques. Students leave Southwold loaded with all of their primary data collected and in a confident position to begin the write-up of their investigations.

Price per student - from £105.00

A very popular and practical field course which is divided into 2 separate overnight residential trips. Trip 1 includes a day each of both coastal and human fieldwork and is complimented with sessions on Southwold's key geographical issues. Students will also cover the requirements of the NEA, planning and designing an NEA, sampling, GIS and statistics. A return visit at least 3 weeks later, allows students to arrive ready to ‘hit the ground running' in terms of data collection having designed their own itineraries and methodologies. Further classroom sessions on the data presentation and secondary data enable the students to leave fully equipped to write-up their own investigations.

Price per student - from £100.00

By popular demand! We've added a single days fieldwork focusing on urban methods of data collection, specifically rebranding and regeneration techniques. Students will have the opportunity to trial at least 12 new methods including safety perception surveys, index of decay, place preservation, regeneration Likert surveys and weighted environmental quality surveys.
This course works well as an additional day to our skills booster courses in Southwold, the experience in Ipswich provides students with the chance to experiment with human methods that can then be transferred and tweaked to be relevant to their own local investigations.
Ipswich Waterfront is a great site for fieldwork, it is traffic-free and relatively safe and compact. It has regenerated modern spaces and derelict, run-down and redundant buildings making an ideal contrast aand providing lots of scope for varied investigation.

This hands-on practical course will allow students to experiment with a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection both in the town and on the beach. Ranging from traditional techniques such as beach profiling to assessing sound quality using smartphones.

Price per student - £30.00

An in-depth investigation assessing the coastal management and ints impact on the Southwold coastline. Students are introduced to the challenges and landscape of the coast on the first day with all data collection methods demonstrated, enabling individual data collection on the second day. Classroom sessions on data presentation, statistics, conclusions and evaluations complete the course.

Price per student - from £60.00