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Olesya Nedvetskaya
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Ida Bjorkbacka
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Alan Foster
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Steve Garlick
 
Name:   
  • Steve Garlick:           
 
Nationality:
  •  Australian
 
Recent Positions:
  • Conjoint Professor, Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle (NSW), Australia
  • Adjunct Professor, Sustainable Regions, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
 
Areas and Length of Expertise:
  • Regional Development Theory &Policy;
  • University – Regional Engagement,
  • Regional Development & Applied Ethics, University-regional community engagement benchmarking,
  • University evaluation studies
  • Learning and community engagement
 
 
Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:
  • Advisor to IMHE/ OECD on higher education and regional development
  • Higher education evaluations in Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands and Canada
  • Consultancies for the Australian Government in regional development and higher education.
 
Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships
  • Masters degree and PhD in regional economics (awarded thesis medal by the Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association)
  • British Council Award Scholarship 
  • Former senior executive and ministerial advisor with the Australian Government
  • Vice-President of the Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA).
  • Member of the St James Ethics Centre at the University of Sydney
 
Selected Publications in:

 

Regional development theory & policy:
  • An Enterprising Human Capital Approach to Regional Growth: Implications for policy and the role of Vocational Education and Training. NCVER, Adelaide. 2007(with M. Taylor and P.  Plummer), ISBN pending

 University-regional and community engagement:

  • Creative Associations in Special Places: Enhancing the partnership role of universities in building competitive regional economies. DEST EIP No: 98/4. Canberra. 1998
  • Engaging Universities and Regions: Knowledge contribution to regional economic development in Australia. DEST EIP No: 00/15. Canberra 2000.
  • OECD Peer Review Evaluation Report for the Atlantic Canada Region. 2007. www.oecd.org/edu/higher/regionaldevelopment
  • OECD Peer Review Evaluation Report for the Sunshine and Fraser Coast Region, Australia, 2006. www.oecd.org/edu/higher/regionaldevelopment
  • OECD Peer Review Evaluation Report for the Oresund Science Region, Sweden and Denmark. 2006. www.oecd.org/edu/higher/regionaldevelopment
  • OECD Peer Review Evaluation Report for the Varmland Region, Sweden. 2006. www.oecd.org/edu/higher/regionaldevelopment
  • OECD Peer Review Evaluation Report for the Twente Region , Netherlands. 2006. www.oecd.org/edu/higher/regionaldevelopment
 
Ethics of regional development and university engagement:
  • “Connecting scholarship to places: human capital, learning, enterprising and an ethical approach to communities”. AUCEA Annual Conference, Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs, July, 2007
 
University benchmarking:
  • Benchmarking the University: Learning about improvement, DEST, Canberra, 2004
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Stephen Rubin
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Maurice Baslé
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Elda Perlino
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Barry Hake

Name:
  • Barry Hake

 

Nationality:
  • British (Living in Neterlands)

 

Recent Positions:
  • Associate Professor, Centre for Learning in Organizations, School of Education, Faculty Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Netherlands
  • Managing director of Eurolearn, consultancy for research, advice, training, and translations
 
Areas and Length of Expertise:
  • Historical and comparative studies of adult education and adult learning;
  • Policy analysis of lifelong learning policies; participation in adult learning;
  • Life course perspectives on adult learning;
  • Financing of lifelong learning;
  • Older workers and lifelong learning;
  • Political economy of lifelong learning;
  • Learners’ biographies and learning trajectories
           
Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:
  • 2005-2006: Tender research on Local Learning Centre and Local Strategic Partnerships (European Commission)
  • 2006-2007: Tender research on Training of Adult Educators in General Adult Education and Non-formal Vocational
  • Adult 2006-2007 Diverse commissions to write chapters for books for CEDEFOP,  International Encyclopaedia for Education, UNESCO International Institute for Education
 
Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:
  • Educational qualifications: BA (Bristol), MA (Exeter), PhD (Hull)
  • Secretary of European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA
 
Selected Publications:

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Henrik Zipsane
 Name:
  • Henrik Zipsane

 

 Nationality: 
  • Danish (working in Sweden)

  

Current Position:         
  • Director of Jamtli, County Museum of Jämtland
 
Areas and Length of Expertise:
  • The role of cultural heritage in sustainable regional development
  • Cultural heritage learning and social cohesion
 

Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:

  • Consulting the possibilities of gaining better financial results in the long run for three small local museums in Östersunds Municipality
  • Initiating a successful pedagogical programme for upper secon­dary compul­sory school with the role play method with the aim of producing attitudes against xenophobia
  • Initiating a successful programme for early school leavers with a method of creating positive learning experiences in order to stimulating a return to formal basic education
  • Initiating a case study of describing and analysing the activities of volun­taries in the museum and genealogists in the archive as adult learning activities
 
Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:
  •  MA in History from Copenhagen University Ph.D. from the Danish University of Education
  • Director, the Archives and Museums in Farum Municipality, Denmark
  • Secretary executive of the Local Popular University in Farum Municipality, Denmark
  • Chair of the Association for the History of Migration in Denmark
  • Chair of the Association of Open Air Museums in Sweden
  • Co-founder and Chair of the European network LLOAM (Lifelong Learning in Open Air Museums)
  • Co-founder and co-director of the Nordic Centre for Heritage Learning, Östersund – Sweden
  • Secretary executive for the County of Jämtlands representation to EARLALL
 
Selected Publications:
 
  • (2005); “The Open Air Museum and its new role as a museum of many cultures”, i “Papers from 21st Conference of the European Association of Open Air Museums August 2003 in Scotland”, Glasgow
  • (2005); “Refugees at the Open Air Museum: the museum as a place for informal lifelong learning. A case study”. in: Cameron, H. (Red.) Conference proceedings for Management, Social Capital and Lifelong Learning. Pascal Observatory International Conference at Stirling University, 25 – 28 October 2005. Stirling
  • (2006); “Lifelong Learning in Open Air Museums - A fascinating part to play in Europe”, i “Papers from 22nd Conference of the European Association of Open Air Museums August 2005 in Finland”, Turku (in print)
 
 
 
 
 
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Angelica Kaus
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Tiziana Corti
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Norman Longworth
 
Name:
  • Norman Longworth

 

 Nationality:
  • British
 
 
Recent Positions:
  • Hon Professor of Lifelong Learning, Stirling University        
  • Managing Director of Longlearn Limited
 
Areas and Length of Expertise:
  • Project Management in Lifelong Learning and Learning City/Region Matters
  • Development and application of Tools and Audits for implementing Learning City/Region Policies
  • Development and application of Learning Materials for Local and Regional Authorities on Learning City/Region Topics
 
Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:

 European Commission projects Management

  • TELS (Towards a European Learning Society) Audit Tool for 80 Learning Cities
  • LILLIPUT, development of 200 hours of learning materials in 14 modules
  • PALLACE, Linking Learning Cities and Regions in 4 continents
  • INDICATORS – developing Stakeholder Audits for Transforming Local Authorities, Schools, Universities, SMEs and Adult LILARA (Learning in Local and Regional Authorities), developing Audit Tools to find Learning Needs of local and regional authority personnel and their stakeholders.
  • PENR3L (Pascal European Network) Workshops and Conference to establish European Network of Academics and Practitioners in Learning Cities/Regions
 
Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:
  • Former President of European Lifelong Learning Initiative
  • Vice-President of World Initiative on Lifelong Learning (presently inactive)
  • Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and Manufactures
  • Former holder of IBM/UNESCO chair in learning and education technology
  • Former manager of IBM European external educational programmes
  • Consultancy work for OECD, European Commission, UNESCO etc
 
Selected Publications:
  • ‘Lifelong Learning- new vision, new implications, new roles’ (Kogan Page (now Taylor and Francis) 1996)
  • ‘Lifelong Learning at Work: Learning Cities for a Learning Century’ (Kogan Page (now Taylor and Francis) 1999)
  • European Policy paper on the Local and Regional Dimension of Lifelong Learning (DG EaC 2001)
  • ‘Lifelong Learning in Action – Transforming Education in the 21st century’ (Kogan Page (now Taylor and Francis 2003)
  • ‘Learning Cities, Learning Regions, Learning Communities – Lifelong Learning and Local Government’ (Taylor and Francis 2006)
  • plus 100+ keynote and refereed conference papers, and chapters in other books
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Pia Backlund
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Adam Bryan
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Steven Campbell
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Pat Inman
Name:
  • Pat Inman

 

Nationality:
  • American

 

Recent Positions:         
  • Educational consultant specializing in lifelong learning
 
 
Areas and Length of Expertise:
  • Lifelong Learning in all contexts
  • Adult Literacy
  • Educational Leadership
  • Cluster-based economic development
 
Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:
  • Woodstock Public Schools: Secondary Literacy Transition to Higher Education
  • Illinois State Board of Education: Adult Literacy
  • Loyola University-New Orleans, Boggs Community Literacy Center: Program Assessment
  • Colorado Dept. of Labor: Higher Education Program Assessment (Healthcare)
  • Northrop Grumman: Workplace Literacy
  • U.S. Department of Education: Workplace Learning
  • Gates School Initiative: Recreate Secondary Education-Educational Leadership
  • Chicago Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development: Grant Reviewer
  • Illinois Secretary of State Literacy Office: Grant Reviewer
  • Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Boards: Cluster-Based Economic Development
  • Illinois Education Research Council:Teacher Retention and Program Assessment
  • Community Outreach Partnership Center: University Engagement
 
Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:
  • doctorate in Adult and Continuing Education from Northern Illinois University 
  • Lincoln Examiner for Program Assessment
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Center for Governmental Studies, Northern Illinois University
  • Outstanding Service in Educational Leadership, Northern Illinois University
  • Co-Editor of Vitae Scholastica: Journal of Educational Biography
 

Selected Publications:

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Jennifer Groce
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Fiona Bodle
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Hans Schuetze
Professor Hans G. Schuetze is a Fellow and former Director, Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, also a Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
 
PhD in international law and comparative government (University of Göttingen, Germany), LL.M. (University of California at Berkeley), German Bar Exam ('zweites juristisches Staatsexamen').
 
Studied social sciences, economics, and law at the universities of Göttingen and Bonn (Germany), Grenoble (France) and of California at Berkeley (USA). After a short career as a lawyer in private practice (specialized in public and international law) and Legal Counselor for two levels of government in Germany, he worked as a policy analyst and research co-ordinator at the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, and later as a Minister's Counselor on technology and human resources development policies in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Technology (Germany). Based on work he has done in the latter capacity, he was the founder and first General Manager of the North German Agency for Technology Transfer and Innovation (NATI), a model that was emulated in several of the new Länder.
 
He also served for five years as the elected mayor of a district of the City of Hannover. In this capacity he has been especially engaged in public self-help and housing projects for immigrants and minority populations as well as in establishing municipal Learning and Cultural Centres.
 
Since 1991, he was Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies University of British Columbia and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training (of which he was the Director between 1995 to 1996 and again 2002 to 2006). Retired in 2006, he remains a Fellow at the Policy Centre while, at the same time, joining the law cabinet Hanske & Nielsen in Hannover, Germany, specializing in education and the law as well as on international human rights issues.
 
He has worked as a consultant on educational policy (OECD, UNESCO, the EU, the Canadian government, the British Columbia provincial government as well as several other education policy bodies, as well as a visiting professor at the universities of Vienna and Graz (Austria), Hanover and Oldenburg (Germany), Rouen (France), and Hiroshima (Japan) as well as at the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies in Education (Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados, Mexico).
 
His fields of research and expertise are the economics and the organization of post-secondary education and training, comparative education, lifelong learning, and, more generally, the role of education and training in cultural, social and economic development. He has also done extensive research work on the role of learning, knowledge creation and knowledge management in innovation in private industry, and especially in small and medium companies, as well as on university - industry collaboration. He has published several books and some 50 scholarly articles and book chapters as well as a number of other documents. He is fluent in German, French and English and has a good working knowledge of Spanish.
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