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Graham McLeod Dr Graham McLeod

Teaching Fellow; Geological Sciences Programme Manager; Learning and Teaching Project Officer

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 33057
Email address: G.W.Mcleod@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 8.15 SCR

Biography

Graham obtained his Honours degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Glasgow in 2003, where he also gained his PhD in 2008 with a thesis illustrating the use of chemical zoning in titanite as an indicator of magma-mixing processes. During and after his doctorate, Graham taught undergraduate Geology at Glasgow before joining the School of Earth and Environment at Leeds in September 2009 as a Teaching Fellow.

Learning and teaching in the Earth Sciences is Graham's current focus of interest. He is involved with two current projects:

  • Evaluating feedback mechanisms in the School of Earth and Environment; a UTF funded project with Dr Rob Mortimer, aimed at improving current assessment feedback practice.

  • Pathways to success: A blended learning approach to a distinctive Geological Sciences (GS) programme; a project designed to create a distinctive new Geological Sciences (GS) programme in which students can follow bespoke 'pathways' which augment the core curriculum and develop distinctive skills appropriate to particular areas of graduate research and/or employment. To facilitate this programme through distinct practical teaching by developing a dynamic research-led specimen collection, with an accompanying e-collection (RockBase) of supporting material relevant to each track. Graham is the primary curator of the RockBase site.

Teaching / administrative responsibilities:

Graham acts as Manager of the Geological Sciences programme and has various teaching duties:

  • Module leader and lecturer for Level 1 Geological Materials (SOEE1570 and SOEE1575)
  • Module leader and lecturer for Introductory Earth Sciences, International Foundation Year (SOEE 0010)
  • Fieldwork coordinator and leader for Pembroke, Level 1
  • Fieldwork coordinator and leader for Ingleton, Level 1
  • Fieldwork staff for Lake District mapping Excursion, Level 2
  • Independent Mapping Project supervisor, Isle of Raasay, Level 3

Publications

  • McLeod GW; Dempster TJ; Faithfull JW (2011) Deciphering Magma-Mixing Processes Using Zoned Titanite from the Ross of Mull Granite, Scotland, Journal of Petrology, 52, pp.55-82.
  • Brown DJ; Bell BR; McLeod GW (2006) A re-interpretation of the "Centre 3 screens" of Ardnamurchan, NW Scotland, Scottish Journal of Geology, 42, pp.83-85.