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Organisation/Affiliation
Professor
of Education in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham
Before his appointment in 1989, spent fifteen years at
the Institute of Local Government Studies in the same University
Interests in Life Long Learning
Work
has been focused on the changing government, politics and management of
education
Early research interests included relations between
central and local government and the politics of reorganising schools in
response to demographic change
Recent research (for ESRC and SOEID) has focused on
studying schools in contexts of disadvantage, finding that schools which reach
out to their parent communities to establish shared understandings and
agreements create the conditions for flourishing education
Currently launching two major research programmes into
learning communities: A study of governors as volunteer citizens for the ESRC
Democracy and Participation Programme and a study of family centres, for the
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