Leading and Enhancing Community Learning Outdoors March 2025 – free places!
This online course is delivered in eight weekly twilight sessions and starts on Wednesday 5th March 2025. Several free places are available for anyone working, volunteering or leading outdoor learning in a community learning context in Scotland. The course aims to offer educators and leaders in outdoor learning an opportunity [...]
QMU wins Inspiring Learning Places Award at Learning Places Scotland 2024!
Congratulations to Patrick Boxall (Lecturer in Education) and the Queen Margaret University team, winning the category for 'Inspiring Learning Places at the Learning Places Scotland Awards. This was the only nature-based project to win, and the QMU Wee Forest was a key part of the nomination.
QMU supports outdoor learning and Wee Forests
Listen to this recent BBC Radio Scotland Scotland Outdoors (6 April 2024) programme (sign in required). Join Patrick Boxall (lecturer in Education, Queen Margaret University) for a tour around the new outdoor learning hub and Wee Forest. Listen to him describe the benefits of learning in nature outdoors (from 1.14.37 [...]
Outdoor Learning Hub at QMU: The Wee Forest and Howff
Watch this series of videos shared by Queen Margaret University (QMU) which tell the inspiring story of how the University outdoor spaces have been developed to support learning and nature. Pick up ideas to implement your own outdoor spaces, however small!
Wee Forest takes root at Queen Margaret University’s Outdoor Learning Hub
Wee Forests provide a great resource for Outdoor Learning and for STEM learning outdoors. NatureScot provided funding to establish a Wee Forest at Queen Margaret University's Outdoor Learning Hub in 2022. This means every year hundreds of undergraduate school teachers learn about the benefits of teaching outdoors. Check out this [...]
Outdoor Learning Hub for initial teacher educators, and the wider community
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, share news about their new outdoor learning hub (20 September 2021). This will present outstanding opportunities for student teachers, local people and wider community across Scotland to come together in natural environments.
University branches out with outdoor learning for future teachers
STV news (17 September 2021) shares how first year teaching student are gaining skills in delivering with outdoor lessons, at Queen Margaret University’s new outdoor learning hub. The university is revising the way it teaches life lessons and is looking to impart the skills it takes to teach outside.
