Here are some of the publications about student transitions produced by geographers at Newcastle:
A-Z survival guide for your new life as a physical geography student at Newcastle University.
Richardson, Michael and Tate, Simon, (in press) Improving the transition to university: introducing student voices into the formal induction process for new geography undergraduates. Journal of Geography in Higher Education
Richardson, Michael, and Tate, Simon, (2012) University is not as easy as A, B, C...: How an extended induction can improve the transition to university for new undergraduates. EMERGE (4): 11-25
Barnes, Lauren, Buckley, Hopkins, Peter, and Tate, Smith, (2011) The transition to and through university for non-traditional local students: some observations from teachers. Teaching Geography Summer 70-71.
Tate, Simon, and Swords, Jon (in press) Please mind the gap: students' perspectives of the transition in academic skills between A-level and degree-level geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education
Tate, Simon and Hopkins, Peter, (2013) Re-thinking undergraduate students’ transitions to, through and out of university. Higher Education Academy, York.