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Organisation/Affiliation
- Chair of the Association for Education and Ageing
- member of the Steering Committee of the European
Association for Research in the Education of Adults (ESREA)
- member of both the Wider Benefits of Learning
Research Centre Advisory Forum and the 'Older and Bolder' national development
project Advisory Board
- in 1998, spent a month as a Visiting Lecturer at
Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia and is continuing to work with
colleagues there on a joint research project
Interests in Life Long Learning
main
research interests are in older peoples learning, education and training; and
in methods of understanding adults learning styles
currently researching older peoples choices and
experiences of lifelong learning funded by the Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC) under its Growing Older: Extending Quality Life Programme
working with colleagues in Scandinavia on an EU-funded
project on the training of older workers |
Alexandra Withnall