The
FACE Executive
Next Meeting of the Executive: Conference AGM, July 2008
Venue: As in previous years, the Annual General Meeting will be held during conference.
Usual Venue: University of Westminster, 155 New Cavendish Street, London,
W1W 6UW
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Executive Briefing: 11:00 – 12:00 followed by Executive Business Session 12:00 – 14:00
Future meetings
All members are welcome to attend FACE executive meetings and we are keen to encourage new members to get as fully involved as possible. Executive meetings also include a Briefing Session from a visiting speaker. Meetings are on Mondays, 11am - 2pm (unless otherwise notified).
Directory of FACE Executive Members
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JOHN STORAN |
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Chair Professor John Storan P.A. to John: |
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John is the Associate Director with Action on Access with responsibility for Partnerships for Progression, and is also Regional Adviser for the South West and Northern Ireland. John is currently the Director of Continuum, the Centre for Widening Participation Policy Studies at the University of East London, and was previously Director of Continuing Education and Development at South Bank University. In 2001 he was made a Professorial Fellow at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He has been an influential regional and national figure on Widening Participation and was a member of the NABCE (Non Award-Bearing Continuing Education National Group), established by the HEFCE in 1994, which paved the way for subsequent Widening Participation developments. He has been a member of a number of HEFCE groups and currently serves as a member of the National Steering Group for Partnerships for Progression. He was a pioneer of APEL in the UK and has chaired the SEEC APEL network since it was established. |
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MIKE HILL |
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Secretary Michael Hill |
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Mike is an Associate Head (Widening Participation)
in the Academic Development Centre at Kingston University. He is
responsible for the development and implementation of the institution’s
widening participation strategy. He is Kingston University’s
representative as the lead institution in the London South Aimhigher
Partnership. He works with the university’s network of Associate
Further Education Colleges particularly in relation to regional
developments concerning lifelong learning. He is also a popular
speaker at widening participation seminars around the UK. Prior to working in higher education, he taught in the further and adult education sectors for 17 years. His main subject areas were teacher training and TESOL. |
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MIKE GOODWIN |
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Treasurer Senior Development Officer, Education |
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Biography to follow . |
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DANNY SAUNDERS |
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Vice Chair Professor Danny Saunders |
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Danny moved into educational developments
and lifelong learning after researching and lecturing in social
and abnormal psychology for over 15 years. A major part of his
work involves the design, negotiation and writing of whole-University
widening access policies and strategies which involve 82 community
organisations in South East Wales as well as further education
college partners. The Centre for Lifelong Learning works in the
valleys and cities of South Wales targeting disaffected youth,
part-time community learners, and later learners in “old
age”
as well as being an academic department running the Foundation Studies
Certificate and the Combined Sciences degree for over 800 full-time
students. The planning of progression pathways between community
and further education provision and on-campus delivery is a priority
for the Centre alongside tracking and retention initiatives. In order
to support this he is closely involved in community consortia partnerships
in the Rhondda and Cynon and Llynfi valleys, Bridgend, and Merthyr
Tydfil. |
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STEVE LAKE |
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Vice Chair Steve Lake |
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Steve is Widening Participation Manager at Southampton Solent
University. He is responsible for the strategic direction of
access, partnership working with colleges and universities and
community engagement. He represents the university on the Aimhigher:
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Management Group and is a member
of the team developing a Lifelong Learning Network in the area.
He is currently a member of the Southampton Strategic Partnership
Steering Group leading on environment and continues to lecture
in environmental politics, combining his interests in this area
with his access role, looking at environmental education and
participative processes in local decision-making. Steve is a
former member of the executive committee of the Political Studies
Association and is a ‘Common Purpose’ graduate. Prior
to working in HE, Steve was a training consultant and started
his working life as a community outreach worker. |
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TONY ACLAND |
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Tony Acland |
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Tony is the Aimhigher Director
for Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Also, as part of the Aimhigher
South East (SE) Regional team, Tony is responsible for chairing
the Disabled, BME and Refugee and Asylum Seekers working group.
As a former Dean of Student Services, Tony was a member of the
Association of Managers of Student Services in Higher Education
(AMOSSHE) and has contributed articles and conference papers on
Access, Race, Equal Opportunities and the importance of appropriate
student support from pre-entry to successful graduate employment.
Amongst his publications, Tony co-edited (with Modood) Race and
Higher Education (1998) PSI. |
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PETE JONES |
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Editor, FACE2FACE Peter Jones |
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Pete entered higher education
as a mature student after spending many years working at various
jobs throughout Europe ranging from ice cream van driver to Pirate.
He trained initially as a development geographer at the University
of Central Lancashire and later at Staffordshire University before
becoming a part-time lecturer at UCLan. He worked on numerous access
and retention initiatives at UCLan before taking up his current
post at Staffordshire University. He has published and presented
on various retention and widening participation topics including
regionalism and globalisation, socialisation, APL, shifting demographics,
offender education, work based learning and the de-ethnicising
of the Tanzanian primary education system. |
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MARTIN WEBSTER |
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Martin Webster Head of Widening Participation Tel: 0115 848 2008 |
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Martin is Head of Widening Participation
at Nottingham Trent University. After a twelve year career in financial
services Martin went to study Psychology and Sociology at Liverpool
Hope University. He began working in widening participation in
2001 at Liverpool Hope. During his time there he was chair of Aimhigher
Greater Merseyside’s BME working group and sat on various
other practitioner groups. In 2005 he moved into his current role
at Nottingham Trent. He represents the University on the Aimhigher
Nottinghamshire Area Steering Group as well as sitting on the Open
College Network East Midland’s Access to Higher Education
Committee. Martin has co-authored two papers with Dr Graeme Atherton
and has presented at several conferences both in the UK and Europe. |
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GRAEME ATHERTON |
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FACE Research Funding Dr. Graeme Atherton |
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Dr. Graeme Atherton has been the Manager of
the Aimhigher Central London Partnership since January 2005. Prior
to this role he was the Associate Dean of Widening Participation
at Liverpool Hope University College and closely involved with
Aimhigher in Greater Merseyside. His recent research has focused
on the impact of widening participation initiatives on the attitudes
of young people from backgrounds under-represented in HE and the
political context of the drive to increase the numbers of young
people in HE. In recent years he has delivered papers on these
themes to international conferences in several European countries
and in the United States. He is also Director of the Aimhigher
National Project ‘Student Finance Interactive’, delivered
in partnership with the students charity UNIAID. |
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JACKIE LEACH |
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Administrator Jackie Leach, |
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Jackie has been the invaluable administrator for FACE for several years, and also works for Education & Community Partnerships at the University of East London where she is based. Jackie is currently handling matters relating to FACE events as well. For anyone wishing to learn more about FACE, Jackie is the person to contact. |
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JEFF BRAHAM |
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Jeff Braham Head of UK Academic Partnerships, Tel: 01332 591081 |
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Jeff has amongst his wide professional interests: higher level vocational learning; work-based learning; AP(E)L; widening participation; compact schemes; guaranteed access schemes; progression arrangements; collaborative provision; foundation degrees; student retention. |
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MAGGIE MCLINDEN |
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Maggie Mclinden Schools Partnership Manager, |
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Maggie works at the University of
East London as the FE and Schools Partnership Manager overseeing
delivery of the Schools and College liaison and Aimhigher related
work. She has worked in widening participation since the HEFCE
specially funded projects commenced at the end of the 1990’s.
Her previous roles have involved the areas of; research, applying
policy, project management and planning. She has been involved
in FACE for a number of years and is interested in retention and
progression of under-represented groups. |
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JOHN SAMUEL |
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John Samuel |
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John has worked
in the UK in FE and HE for over 27 years and has considerable and
varied teaching, management and research experience in such areas
as youth and community work, community studies, social policy,
Caribbean studies, teacher education, international education,
multicultutal/antiracist education and adult/community education.
He has held senior management positions in FE/HE at College Vice
Principal and Principal levels, and he has significant overseas
educational experience, particularly in the Caribbean. John
has been at Leeds Metropolitan University for just over 10 years,
initially as Academic Manager in the Centre for Access and Lifelong
Learning, with varied responsibilities for Access/Widening Participation,
Workbased Learning and Assessment and Accreditation of Prior Learning,
and more recently as the Manager of the University's Archive Project. |
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MIKE OSBORNE |
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Professor Michael J Osborne |
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Mike is Head of the Centre for Lifelong Learning in the Institute of Education at the University of Stirling. He is a co-director of the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning. This centre has established a substantial infrastructure to support research in Lifelong Learning in Scotland. He also co-ordinates the European node of the PASCAL observatory on place management, social capital and learning. Mike has been undertaking research work in widening access to F/HE since the mid 1980s, and has particular interests in performance of mature students in F/HE, work-based access, particularly from SMEs, the access curriculum in Science and Technology and comparative policy in access to HE. He has recently completed a range of research projects on mature student participation for the DfEE and the Scottish Executive including a comparative study of widening access involving partners in France, Finland, Canada and Australia. He is a principal investigator within the ESRC TLRP project, Social and Organisational Mediation of University Learning. He is active in a number of European networks, particularly the European Universities Continuing Education Network (EUCEN), the Socrates Thematic Network (EULearn) and the European Access Network. He co-ordinated the Leonardo project, European Learning in Smaller Companies (ELISC) with partners at the universities of Barcelona, Bari and Lappenraanta. He has recently completed a project with in the framework of the EU's European Networks of Learning Regions, which has developed and tested indicators for monitoring and measuring stakeholder organisations in Learning Cities and Regions. |
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PAUL GRAINGER |
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Paul Grainger (Tel) 02076126627 |
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Paul is developing a Centre for 14+ Innovation and Reform, an academic Centre at the Institute of Education which will work closely with the Network. The Centre will undertake research and dissemination at a global level, but will also take an active interest in regional issues. Paul has spent 30 years in teaching and FE Management. From 1990 to 95 he was TVEI project manager for Wandsworth, and was chair of the, then, post 16 Network 93-95, before moving on to a vice principal role in the north west. As Director of Curriculum at S E Essex College he formed a partnership with Essex University for the provision of Higher Education courses in Southend. Most recently, as Principal, he created the Widnes and Runcorn Sixth Form College, building a new, second campus in Runcorn. This is now to merge with Halton College. Paul was, for many years, Vice Chair of FACE. He chaired the RIBA/LSC Forum, leading developments in innovative learning environments, and joined the Education Experts panel of the Design Council, looking at issues around the Building Schools for the Future programme. |
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Tami McCrone |
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Tami McCrone Senior Research Officer, (Tel) 01753 637206 |
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Tami McCrone (BA Hons, DipMRS, PGCE), Senior Research Officer, joined the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) in 2003 from a further education (FE) college where she lectured higher education (HE) and FE students as well as providing pastoral support. She had previously worked in business market research where she received grounding in qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Tami has worked on a variety of research projects at NFER. Recent projects include an investigation of decision-making in Years 9 and 11, a survey on the impact of e-learning on FE, an examination of change management in schools and other public sectors and a qualitative examination of the impact of 14-16 year olds on FE colleges. Much of her research experience has been in the 14 to 19 sector, but FE remains her primary interest. |
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Deirdre Lynskey |
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Deirdre Lynskey Programme Manager Aimhigher Greater Merseyside University of Liverpool 150 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L69 3DG Tel: 0151 794 5843 Fax: 0151 794 1338 www.ahgtm.ac.uk |
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Jim Tate |
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Website and E-bulletin Jim Tate |
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Jim maintains the FACE website. He has worked in widening participation
since 2000, firstly at the University of Exeter and subsequently
at the University of the West of England, and is currently part
of the Aimhigher programme in the South West, maintaining the AHSW
Practitioners website and the AHSW
Summer Schools website and the UWE Year 12 Summer School, as well as working on Aimhigher Southwest's
regional longitudinal student tracking study. He has also been
a philosophy tutor at the University of the West of England,
having previously taught philosophy at the University of Dundee,
Keele University, and the Open University. |
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