2007 - 'Adult education and community development'

Mae Shaw

Mae Shaw is a lecturer in Community Education at the University of Edinburgh. Originally from Northern Ireland, she has a background in practice in the voluntary sector in London and Edinburgh and writes extensively on the politics of community development. Her publications include Radical Community Work: Perspectives from Practice in Scotland (1997), Popular Education and Social Movements in Scotland Today (2000), and Community Work:Policy, Politics and Practice (2004). She also has an interest in the arts and has recorded a CD, Heart, Mind & Soul: Learning from Song (2005), as a resource for adult learning. She recently co-edited a special issue of the International Community Development Journal 'Community Development and the Arts:Reviving the Democratic Imagination (2007). She is Editor of Concept, the Scottish journal for community education and is a long standing member of the editorial board of the Community Development Journal.

 

2005 - 'Workers, workplaces and the working class: lifelong learning in South Wales

Professor Gareth Rees

Gareth Rees is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, where he is also the Director of the Research and Graduate School in the Social Sciences. He has researched and written extensively about lifelong learning in the context of wider economic and social development. Much of this research has been conducted in South Wales and Gareth has particular interests in the relationships between learning and de-industrialisation/re-industrialisation. He is currently working on an Research Council funded project on teaching and learning in the Further Education sector in South Wales.

His latest publications include:

• Creating a Learning Society? (Policy Press, 2002) (with S. Gorard)
• Cities and Regions in the New Learning Economy (OECD 2001) (with C. Edquist)

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2004 - 'Why the difference? A closer look at minority ethnic students'.

Professor Tariq Modood

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. In 2001, he was awarded a MBE for services to social science and ethnic relations.

His best known works include Not Easy Being British (1992) and (with others). Ethnic Minorities in Britain: Diversity and Disadvantage (PSI, 1997). His latest books are Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain (Minnesota and Edinburgh University Presses, 2005), (co-ed) Ethnicity, Nationalism and Minority Rights, and (co-ed) Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy in the US and UK (both CUP, 2004).

His specialist areas include research on ethnic minorities' qualifications profile and entry into higher education. His latest work in this area is (with H. Connor et al) Why the Difference? A closer look at Minority Ethnic Students and Graduates, Research Report 552, Department for Education and Skills, July 2004.

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2003 - 'Wales - A nation of learning communities'

Jane Davidson, Minister for Education & Lifelong Learning, National Assembly for Wales

At Onllwyn, Neath Port Talbot, as part of the 10th Anniversary Celebrations, organised by the CUV Partnership, in association with the Glynneath Training Centre.

Jane Davidson A.M. Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning was former Head of Social Affairs at the Welsh Local Government Association and previously a member of the Arts Council for Wales and its Lottery Board. She was a former councillor in Cardiff, a teacher and a Youth and Community worker. Her interests include health, social inclusion, lifelong learning and theatre.

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2002 - 'What's the point?' -young people learning and social exclusion

Sarah Lloyd Jones, Director People & Work Unit

At Cwmaman, Aberdare, organised by the CUV Partnership in association with the Telecentre & Business School, Porth.

Sarah Lloyd Jones is the Director of The People & Work Unit, an independent Welsh organisation that conducts action research projects alongside commissioned evaluation and research work. The Unit works primarily on social, community and education development and has a strong focus on work with young adults. In addition to her work with The People & Work Unit, Sarah works independently as a freelance researcher, where in recent years, her research has concentrated on issues of social exclusion, lifelong learning and young adult.

Sarah has recently published the book 'D'Y Know What I Mean?' which tells the story of young people in South Wales valley communities who are struggling to find employment and a role for themselves in society. It details the experiences of young people in learning and work and their experiences of unemployment and withdrawal from the labour market. It also looks at how 'The Ladder Project' changed the lives of 11 young people who were supported to work in their own communities, to become role models and to gain qualifications that have turned them into the new generation of professional community workers.

D'Y Know What I mean tells a depressing story about how the needs and aspirations of many young people are not being met, with serious consequences for whole communities. It also provides inspiration and hope by demonstrating how young people will grasp a second chance and lead the way to community regeneration from within.

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2001 - The changing agenda of community education'

Dr Tom Collins, Dundalk Institute of Higher Education, Ireland

At Ammanford, organised by University of Wales Swansea, in association with Amman Valley Enterprise.

 

2000 - 'Reclaiming common purpose'

Jane Thompson, National Association of Adult Continuing Education.

At Blaenavon, Blaenau Gwent, organised by the University of Wales Newport

Before joining NIACE in May 2000 as Research and Development Officer, Jane Thompson worked in the Department of Adult Continuing Education at the University of Southampton and Ruskin College, Oxford where she was Director of Studies. Her specialist teaching interests include Working Class and Community Education.

She has taught courses in women's education, community education and the sociology of education at post graduate level and has supervised students writing M.A. dissertations and PhD theses. She is currently an external examiner in community education at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow and the National University of Ireland as well as Research Associate at the University of Warwick. At NIACE she is working on educational responses to the social inclusion, community regeneration and empowerment agendas.

She has written widely about the theory and practice of adult continuing education. Her most recent publications include Adult Learning, Critical Intelligence and Social Change (NIACE 1995); Words in Edgeways: Radical Learning for Social Change (NIACE 1997); Ruskin College: Contesting Knowledge, Dissenting Politics (Lawrence and Wishart 1999); Reclaiming Common Purpose (NIACE 2000), Women, Class and Education (Routledge 2000), and Stretching the Academy: The Politics and Practice of Widening Participation in Higher Education (NIACE 2000).

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1999 - ' Fighting Social Exclusion in the Valleys through Objective 1 Funding'

Professor Hywel Ceri Jones

At Pontypridd, organised by the University of Glamorgan.

 

1998

Dr Kim Howells

At Onllwyn, Neath Port Talbot, organised by the University of Wales Swansea in association with the Dove Workshop.

 

1997 - 'Democratising Knowledge'

Professor Doreen Massey, the Open University

At Monmouthshire County Council Offices, Cwmbran, organised by the Open University.

 

1996

Professor Mike Fitzgerald, Thames Valley University

At Pontypridd, organised by the University of Glamorgan.

 

1993 - 'The University and the People - Y Brifysgol a'r Werin'

Professor Kenneth O Morgan, University of Wales

The inaugural lecture of the Community University of the Valleys, at Onllwyn, organised by the University of Wales Swansea.

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