The FACE Executive

Next Meeting of the Executive

Date: Monday, 5th March 2012

Venue: Institute of Education, University of London, room G02, 55 Gordon Square.

Institute of Education campus map

Visiting the IOE

Executive Briefing Session: 11:00 – 12:00

Executive Business Session 12:00 – 14:00

Proposed Future Dates

Monday, 4th June 2012.

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 usually include a briefing session from a visiting speaker. When there is no visiting speaker the business session starts at 11.00.

Directory of FACE Executive Members

Chair

Professor John Storan, University of East London
(Tel) 0208 223 2643 (Fax) 0208 223 3394 j.storan@uel.ac.uk

John Storan John is a Director with Action on Access, 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.

Secretary

Michael Hill, Widening Participation Unit, Kingston University
(Tel) 0208 547 2000 r.hill@kingston.ac.uk

Mike Hill 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.

Treasurer

Zita Eckett MBE, Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, Southampton SO14 0RX
(Tel) (023) 8031 9275 zita.eckett@solent.ac.uk

Zita is Head of Planning at Southampton Solent University and has been a member of FACE from its inception. She is responsible for implementing and managing key planning operations, which underpin the strategic direction of the University. She represents Southampton Solent University on several Equality and Diversity networks in the Hampshire area, including working with the South's media to promote fair representation of BME groups. She is a member of the Association of University Administrators, combining her professional interest in this area with her commitment to equality of opportunity, in particular in education. Prior to working in HE and FE in the UK, Zita started her working life teaching English and business studies in various third world countries, including Guyana, Venezuela and Bangladesh.

Vice Chair - Representative for Wales

Professor Danny Saunders OBE, Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Glamorgan, Wales CF37 1DL
Institutional web page (Tel) 01443 482327 dmsaunde@glam.ac.uk

Danny Saunders 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.

Representative for Scotland

Professor Michael J Osborne, Department of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Glasgow, St Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow G3 6NH web page Tel: 0141 330 3414 m.osborne@educ.gla.ac.uk

Michael Osborne Mike is Professor of Adult and Lifelong Learning in the Department of Adult and Continuing Education (DACE) at the Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow. He is Director of the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning within the Faculty and Co-director of the PASCAL Observatory. He was formerly Co-director of the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning at the University of Stirling and in total Professor Osborne has worked within the field of lifelong learning in the UK and beyond for 29 years. From 1979 -1989, he worked as a lecturer in Further Education and continues to have extensive links with the vocational sector. He worked at the University of Stirling from 1989 -2007 and was responsible for the setting up of a range of initiatives in widening participation. He was the foundation Director of the Teacher Qualification for FE at the University of Stirling, this being the largest programme of initial pre-service and in-service initial training programme for VET teachers in Scotland. He has been involved in the continuing professional development of VET teachers though the delivery of post-graduate management programmes. He has been undertaking research work in the field of widening access to Further and Higher Education (F/HE) and equity and social inclusion of adults since the mid 1980s. He has particular expertise in the performance of adult students in Further and Higher Education, work-based access, particularly from SMEs, the access curriculum in Science and Technology and comparative policy in access to HE.

Representative for Northern Ireland

Dr Damian O'Kane,
Head of Access and Educational Partnerships, Dept of Access and Educational Partnerships,
University of Ulster, Magee campus, Londonderry BT48 7JL

(Tel) +44 (0)28 71375475 dp.okane@ulster.ac.uk

Dr O’Kane has an established international reputation in the area of social inclusion and widening access and has contributed locally, nationally and internationally to the development of governmental policy and strategy in Northern Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, ROI, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and the USA. Dr O’Kane acts as external moderator to a number of universities across the UK and also sits on various National advisory bodies in the area of widening access. He has independently attracted £14 Million over the past 7 years for community based education programmes.

Vice Chair

Steve Lake, Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, Southampton SO14 0RU
(Tel) (023) 8031 9436 stephen.lake@solent.ac.uk

Steve Lake 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 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.

Editor, FACE2FACE

Peter Jones, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator, Academic Development Inst.
3 Winton Square, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 2AD
Tel: 01782 294941 pete.jones@staffs.ac.uk

Peter Jones 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.

FACE Research Funding Officer

Graeme Atherton, Aimhigher Central London Manager, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW
G.Atherton@westminster.ac.uk

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.

Administrator

Jackie Leach, University of East London,
(Tel) 0208 223 4936 (Fax) 0208 223 4927 j.leach@uel.ac.uk

Jackie Leach

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.

Maggie Mclinden, Schools Partnership Manager, External and Strategic Development Services, University of East London, Docklands Campus, 4-6 University Way, London E16 2RD m.mclinden@uel.ac.uk

Maggie Mclinden

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.

Tony Acland tonyacland44@aol.com

Tony Acland Tony is an independent consultant specialising in promoting access and widening participation in higher education. Formerly, Tony was the Aimhigher Director for Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Also, as part of the Aimhigher South East (SE) Regional team, Tony was 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.

Martin Webster, Nottingham Trent University, 54 Terrace Royal, Clarendon Street, Nottingham NG1 5JD
(Tel) 0115 848 2008 martin.webster@ntu.ac.uk

Martin Webster

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.

Deirdre Lynskey

Programme Manager, Aimhigher Greater Merseyside, University of Liverpool
150 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L69 3DG

(Tel) 0151 794 5843 D.Lynskey@liverpool.ac.uk

Biography to follow .

Jeff Braham, Head of UK Academic Partnerships, University of Derby, Derby, DE22 1GB.
(Tel) 01332 591081 j.braham@derby.ac.uk

Jeff Braham

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.

Tami McCrone, Research Evaluation and Information Dept., NFER, The Mere, Upton Park, Slough SL1 2 DQ
(Tel) 01753 637206 t.mccrone@nfer.ac.uk

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.

Steve Kendall, University of Bedfordshire, Steve.Kendall@beds.ac.uk

Steve Kendall Steve is a comparatively new member of the FACE Executive. He is Associate Dean of Partnerships and Director of Widening Participation at the University of Bedfordshire. He is also the Area Director for Aimhigher Bedfordshire and the Chair of the Aimhigher Regional Group of Partnerships in the East of England.

Steve is significantly involved with current developments, issues and concerns in the development of partnership between HE and FE. In his senior management role he provides leadership and vision to the University in respect of its mission to be a pre-eminent access university. He is a frequent contributor to national and international conferences. Recent work includes a contribution to the HEFCE-funded HEI-school links project “Bringing the Tapestry Together”. Steve is also chair of the Aimhigher Regional Group of Partnerships (East of England), and Area Director for Bedfordshire.

Steve Kendall appointed as UoB Director of Widening Participation

Paul Grainger, Institute of Education, Department of Lifelong Learning and International development, 20 Bedford Way, London WCIH 0AL (Tel) 02076126627p.grainger@ioe.ac.uk

Paul Grainger 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.

John Samuel, Corporate Affairs Office, Leeds Metropolitan University, Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 3HE
Tel: 0113 283 3441 johnjsamuel@googlemail.com

John Samuel 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.

Support Staff - Website and eBulletin

Jim Tate, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY
Tel: 0117 328 1383 James.Tate@uwe.ac.uk

Jim Tate Having left school with no qualifications of any kind Jim returned to education as a mature student and ended up with a BA from Middlesex University, Masters Degrees from the Universities of Kent and Dundee, and a PhD from Keele University.

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 websites for AHSW Summer Schools, the Leap into Health Summer School and the UWE Year 12 Summer School, as well as working on Aimhigher Southwest's regional research team for widening participation. 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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