Notes on Contributors
Michel Alhadeff-Jones
is Adjunct Associate Professor in Adult Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University (USA), and the Executive Director of the Sunkhronos Institute (Switzerland). His research interests include: transformative learning, rhythmanalysis, and biographical coaching. He recently published Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education (Routledge, 2017).
Rosanna Barros
is presently a Member of the Board of the new Centre for Research in Adult Education and Community Intervention (CEAD) of the University of Algarve, Portugal. She is associate convenor of the Research Network on Policy Studies in Adult Education of ESREA. Her main background is in adult education, public policy and social pedagogy.
Pascal Debruyne
holds a doctorate in political science, a master’s degree in conflict and development, a master’s degree in moral sciences and a bachelor’s degree in social work. He works at the Knowledge Centre for Family Sciences of the Odisee University College in Brussels and his current research is on family reunion of recognized refugees and subsidiary protected persons.
Karen Dunwoodie
is currently a Research Fellow at the Deakin University, Centre for Refugee, Employment, Advocacy, Training and Education (CREATE), Australia. Her research interests include progressing the field of refugee resettlement, principally focusing on career development and the impact access to tertiary education may have on the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum.
Maren Elfert
is a Lecturer in Education and Society in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College London, and a 2018 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on global governance of education and the influence of international organizations on educational ideas and policies.
Leona M. English
is Professor of Adult Education at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada. She writes on critical pedagogy, with particular attention to feminism in adult education.
Fergal Finnegan
is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Adult and Community Education, Maynooth University where he is a co-director of the doctoral programmes. His background is in community education and his research interests include transformative learning, biographical research, social class, equality and higher education. He is co-convenor of the ESREA Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning Network.
Marta Gregorčič
(PhD) is a sociologist and Assistant Professor of Adult Education at the Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has been working with counter-hegemonic movements and autonomous self-determining communities of the Global South for the last 20 years.
Bernie Grummell
is a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Education and Adult and Community Education, Maynooth University. She previously worked with the School of Sociology and the Equality Studies Centre, University College Dublin. She is a co-director of the Doctoral programmes in Higher and Adult Education. Research interests include equality and inclusion issues in education.
Mary Hamilton
is Professor Emerita of Adult Learning and Literacy in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University. She has longstanding interest in informal, vernacular learning and how communicative resources are built across the lifespan and her current research is on literacy policy, governance, socio-material theory, academic literacies, digital technologies and change.
Kerry Harman
is Programme Director of Higher Education Introductory Studies, an access programme at Birkbeck, University of London for mature, low-income students. Kerry is interested in academic practices which take marginalized individuals and groups seriously as producers of knowledge. Her current research examines the relationship between sensory ways of knowing and the provision of good care in a homecare context.
Bernd Käpplinger
is Full Professor for Continuing Education at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen in Germany. He is chair of the section Adult Education which has approximately 500 researchers within the German Society for Educational Science and member of the presidium of ESREA. His main research subjects are program planning and enterprise-provided continuing training.
Jenalee Kluttz
is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She researches adult education and learning within social movements. Her current projects explore learning that occurs in solidarity work between climate change, environmental justice, and Indigenous rights movements in opposition to the fossil fuel industry.
Brigitte Kukovetz
is a University Assistant at the University of Graz, Austria (Department of Educational Sciences/Adult Education). Her research interests include adult education in migration societies, solidarity and learning processes of volunteers, (institutional) racism and civil society. In 2015 she completed her doctoral thesis on unauthorized migration and deportations.
Marcella Milana
is Associate Professor at the University of Verona and Honorary Professor of Adult Education at the University of Nottingham. She researches the politics, policy and governance of adult education and learning, from comparative and global perspectives, and is joint editor of the International Journal of Lifelong Education.
Henning Salling Olesen
Professor, former Pro-/Rector Roskilde University. Honorary Doctor Tampere University has engaged in collaborative research with trade unions from 1970s. He is the founder of interdisciplinary doctoral school for lifelong learning and education research and was chair of the European Society for Research in the Education of Adults 1998–2013. He is a founding member of the International Research Group for Psycho-societal Research. He is Advisory Professor for doctoral studies at East China Normal University, Shanghai.
Thomas J. (Tom) Sork
is Professor of Adult Learning and Education at the University of British Columbia in Canada and holds an appointment as Distinguished Professor at the International Institute of Adult and Lifelong Education, New Delhi, India. His research and writing focus on program planning, professional ethics, and international collaboration.
Annette Sprung
is Associate Professor at the University of Graz, Austria (Department of Educational Sciences/Adult Education). Her research and publications focus on adult education in migration societies, racisms, diversity, social inequality, solidarity, citizenship and learning for democracy. She also operates as a co-convenor of the Network on Migration, Transnationalism and Racisms of ESREA.
Lyn Tett
is Professor of Community Education at Huddersfield University. Her research focuses on the factors that exclude adults from post-compulsory education and the action that can promote social inclusion. Her latest book, edited with Mary Hamilton, is Resisting Neoliberalism in Education: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives (Policy Press, 2019).
Joke Vandenabeele
is an Associate Professor at the Laboratory for Education and Society (University of Leuven). She has developed her educational research in relation to the issue of solidarity and the issue of sustainability. In her research, she scrutinizes, both empirically and theoretically, how community education emerges from what people actually do together and how the materiality of a particular practice is part of this educational process.
Pierre Walter
is a professor in the Adult Learning and Education (ALE) program at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He teaches adult learning theory, environmental education, and comparative education. His research focuses on adult learning in the climate justice movement, community-based ecotourism, and decolonizing learning in living history museums.
Susan Webb
is currently a Professor of Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research interests include developing the field and practice of lifelong learning and widening participation. Particularly, the policy effects and practices related to access and participation of students in the field of further and higher education, including the experiences of migrants and refugees.
Linden West
works at Canterbury Christ Church University. He jointly coordinates the ESREA Life History Network and has written widely on adult education. His new book, with Laura Formenti, Transforming Perspectives in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education, A Dialogue won the Cyril O. Houle 2019 prize for outstanding literature in adult education.
Jane Wilkinson
is Associate Dean, Graduate Research, Monash University. Her research interests lie in educational leadership for social justice employing feminist, Bourdieusian and practice architectures lenses. She has conducted extensive research with refugee background students in schools and universities. Her latest book is Navigating Complex Spaces: Refugee Background Students Transitioning into Higher Education.