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Richard Lemmey

Senior Lecturer

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Location: Ambleside
Email: RPLemmey@ucsm.ac.uk
Phone: 015394 30342

Research & Scholarship Interests:
 Personal Responses to the Environment
 Land Classification
 Environmental Education
 Landscape History

Modules Taught:
Outdoor Education
Introduction to Landscape Interpretation
Core Skills
Outdoor Adventure Skills
Personal Responses to Mountain Environments
Landscape Study
Richard Lemmey is a Lecturer within the School. He teaches Expedition Organisation and Personal Responses to Mountain Environments and his research and scholarship interests are in landscape history, personal responses to mountain art and mountain environments and creative approaches to traditional outdoor activities.
My Publications
 
Prince H. & Lemmey R. (1991). "Population Dynamics or Polymorphism?" Environmental Education. 26-27. Summer 1991.

Lemmey, R. (1995). International Exchange - a Luxury or an Important Opportunity. Chronicle of Physical Education in Higher Education. USA.

Cory-Wright, J. & Lemmey, R. (1997). A Comparison of Issues affecting Outdoor Education in New Zealand and Great Britain. Proceedings of the Sir Edmund Hilary Commission Conference on Outdoor Education - 'From Mystery to Mastery'. Taurangi. NZ.

Lemmey, R. (1998). The Picos Project: A Unique Collaboration between Environmental Research and Outdoor Education. Celebrating Diversity: The Third European Congress for Outdoor Adventure Education and Experiential Learning. NAOE.

Lemmey, R. (1999). The Scope for the Provision of Outdoor Education in Primary Schools - an English Case Study. Chapter V in Outdoor Education and Experiential Learning in the UK. Zeitschrift fur Erlebnispedagogik. November.1999. Luneberg University.

Lemmey, R. (2001). Wordsworths Daffodils. Cumbria Wildlife. May. Kendal. Cumbria Wildlife Trust.

Lemmey, R. (2006). In Praise of Fire-racing: Rediscovering reality in Outdoor Programmes in Widening Horizons: Diversity in Theoretical and Critical Views of Outdoor Education Conference Proceedings. The Third International Outdoor Education Research Conference. (reviewed paper)

My External Roles & Consultancies
 
Methods for encouraging meaningful learning orientations in undergraduate students, 1994/95. Research project for the Institute for Innovation in Higher Education. Lancaster University.

MPhil/PhD Case study of pre and post-qualification experience of outdoor practitioners, 1994-1998 (no longer registered).

EU Project B4-3040/93-001015/MM/C4 Establishment of a European Network of Training Centres regarding the European Dimension in Environmental Education. 1994.

The characterisation of Outdoor Studies students in relation to background, performance and aspiration. SMC Research Seminar.1999.

Manchester City Council -Independent report on the viability of Ghyll Head Centre and the future of Outdoor Education in Manchester.

External Validator for the BSc in Outdoor Education at Liverpool John Moores University.

External Validator for the MA in Outdoor Management Training at Sheffield Hallam University.

External Examiner for Outdoor Recreation BSc Worcester University.

External Examiner for Outdoor Education at University of Strathclyde.

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