John Field

John Field is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) in the University of Stirling, where he works in the Division of Academic Innovation and Continuing Education. Previously he worked at the University of Warwick and University of Ulster, following a career in further education in Barnsley.

He has advised a number of government bodies in Britain and elsewhere, and was a member of the National Advisory Group on Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, whose report influenced the Green Paper, The Learning Age. He is author of Social Capital and Lifelong Learning (Policy Press) and Lifelong Learning and the New Educational Order (Trentham, now in its second edition).

He is a Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a lifelong rugby fan, hill walker and music-lover.

Derith Powell

Derith Powell is Director of Community Development and Lifelong Learning at Amman Valley Enterprise, South Wales. She is one of the leading proponents of the community development sector in Wales having worked at practitioner and policy level in both voluntary and statutory organisations since 1979. Most of her work has been undertaken in disadvantaged valley communities.

Derith was instrumental in establishing an all Wales umbrella organisation for Community Development namely C.D.C, Community Development Cymru. She is an advisor to the Welsh Assembly Governernment's Social Inclusion Unit and has been instrumental in the development of assembly policy on community development and community regeneration.

In January 2003 Derith was awarded an MBE for her services to Social Inclusion and Community Development in Wales. She is Co-Editor of the book 'Community Development in South Wales'

Community Development in South Wales
Edited by Steve Clarke, Antonina Byatt, Martin Hoban and Derith Powell May 2002 paperback ISBN 0-7083-1734-0

‘This is an important book. With refreshing honesty, the four contributing editors and six other contributors share their wealth of community development experience in south Wales and in so doing impress the reader with their commitment and compassion.’

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