Staff

Kenneth Lynch
MA (Aberdeen), PhD (Glasgow), ILTM, FRGS

Position
Senior Lecturer
 
Contact
Tel: +44 (0)1242 714779
Email: klynch@glos.ac.uk

Kenny Lynch joined the department in 2005 from Kingston University where he lectured in geography and development studies for 12 years.  He is a human geographer who specialises in development studies.  He has worked in Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, Gambia and briefly in Uganda.  He has conducted research supported by the Department for International Development, the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, The Nuffield Foundation, the British Council, Manx Telecom, Bayero University Kano and educational development work for the National Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. 
 
As well as his normal lecturing duties, Kenny has given invited contributions to Kingston University's Postgraduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, the Institute for Education's MA in Geographical Education and the King's Fund Social Leadership Programme.  In 2004 he was awarded a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship, which he is using to research the potential of mobile technologies for learning and teaching. 
 
Kenny has published articles in a wide range of journals and is current editor of Geography, the Geographical Association's international scholarly journal. He has acted as peer reviewer for ten geography, development and educational journals.  In 2001 he was awarded the Journal of Geography in Higher Education Biennial Award for Promoting Excellence in Teaching and Learning for a paper he wrote with Dave Livingstone (Kingston) on team-based learning.  In 2005 he published a book as part of Routledge's Introduction to Development Studies series entitled Rural Urban Interaction in the Developing World.  During 2005 he will be presenting 10 papers at international conferences in the UK, the US, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. 
 
Other Activities
Member of the HE Academy, the Geographical Association (member of Council 1999-2003) and the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers.
 
Research Interests
Development issues
Africa: representation, development and change
Food production distribution and marketing
Urban Agriculture
Learning and teaching, particularly team-based learning and technology and learning