CUV Partnership Annual Lecture 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.

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 CUV Partnership Annual Lecture 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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CUV Partnership Annual Lecture 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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Previous Community University of the Valleys

Annual Lectures

• 2003 '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
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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