Introducing Environment - Softcover

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Alice Peasgood is a lecturer in the Open University's Centre for Widening Participation. A physics graduate, she has spent 12 years at the University writing introductory courses in mathematics, science and technology, specifically for adults with little previous educational experience. She is the developer and Chair of the presentation team for the Breakthrough to MST courses, which have recruited over 7000 students over their inception in the year 2000. Before joining The Open University, she was a lecturer in the Department of Applied Physics at Leicester Polytechnic (now DeMontfort University) for seven years, teaching Environmental Science, amongst other subjects.
Dr Mark Goodwin has spent fifteen years developing, writing and editing teaching materials for The Open University. He has edited The Sciences Good Study Guide and a number of courses on science, technology, politics and economics. He has worked as an author on the Open University courses Understanding Health, Studying Mammals and Science and the Public. Before joining the University he worked as a Science Publications/Publicity Specialist for the UK Government's Overseas Development Natural Resources Institute.