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1. Student Safety During Overseas Fieldwork & Cultural Exchanges: Scenarios & ActionsDr David J NashSchool of the EnvironmentUniversity of Brighton

2. Scenario 1:You are a 20 year old male undergraduate student studying physical geography, who will be travelling to southern Morocco for four weeks in August to carry out work for your final year dissertation. You will be flying to Marrakech and travelling overland to your field area with 4 other undergraduates and a postgraduate student. You will each be staying with a different Moroccan family and will not be accompanied by a member of academic staff. You have not been to Morocco previously, but the postgraduate student has worked there before and has a contact in the village where you will be based.Compile a checklist of the safety issues you would need to have considered before leaving the UK

3. Scenario 2:You are a senior lecturer in Development Studies with responsibility for organising student placement visits. Two of your female students wish to travel to Malawi during the summer to undertake teaching work for an international development agency. They plan to fly to Lilongwe, where they will be met by a representative of the agency. They will travel overland to a rural village where they will stay in a hostel attached to the school where they will be teaching. A report on their experiences is an assessment component contributing to their final degree. You have never travelled to Malawi and have not sent students on placement with this agency previously.Compile a checklist of the safety issues you would need to have considered before your students leave the UK

4. Available from:Wendy Laird,City of Edinburgh Council Education Department Publications Unit, Level 2, Wellington Court, 10 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh EH1 3EG.

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