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Peter Bloomfield, BSc, PGCE, MA; Senior Lecturer in Geography and Education at the University of Hertfordshire. His subjects are Geography, Primary Geographical Education and Environmental Education. He is a member of the Geographical Associations Primary and Middle School Committee and of the St Albans Agenda 21 Forum Steering Group.
Ruth Caleb, BSc, Diploma in Counselling, MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy; currently Senior Student Counsellor at Thames Valley University, she is a UKCP registered psychotherapist in private practice. She also teaches on the MSc Therapeutic Counselling at Greenwich University. She has eight years experience in University Student Counselling, and over seventeen years experience as a counsellor in a variety of settings including agencies dealing with drug abuse, HIV and AIDS, pregnancy and abortion, and with children and young people.
Heidi Gilhooly, BSc, RMN, Diploma in Counselling, MA in Counselling; originating from Finland, she currently works as a College Counsellor in a Further Education establishment and as a Staff Counsellor for the National Health Service. She is BAC accredited and has fourteen years experience as a counsellor in a variety of settings, including agencies dealing with mental health, drug abuse and HIV, and during the last four years, in universities and colleges.
Jennie Gorbold is a Special Needs Co-ordinator at The Chichester Institute of Higher Education. She was a member of a regional consortium funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to develop work on disability issues in higher education. Although she trained to teach children and adults with dyslexia, she has spent time in Israel with Reuven Feuerstein, being trained in instrumental enrichment.
Robin Grinter is Director of the Centre for Education for Equality at Didsbury School of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University. The Centre was set up in 1995 to integrate all aspects of work in teacher education for equality and social justice. Much of his work has been directed towards promoting multicultural, antiracist and equality education in the curriculum. He taught history for ten years in comprehensive schools in Cheshire and Sheffield, and has been a Senior Lecturer in the Arts and Humanities Department of the Didsbury School of Education since 1971. He has published numerous articles and chapters in books exploring the relationship between multicultural and antiracist education, and the opportunities for implementing these and other equality issues through the National Curriculum. He is also a member of the Antiracist Teacher Education Network.
Joy Jarvis is a teacher of the deaf and is currently responsible for training teachers of the deaf at the University of Hertfordshire. She has worked in a range of contexts with deaf children and adults. This has included working with families of deaf children and as an advisory teacher in schools and colleges. Her current research is about issues surrounding childrens access to classroom language, particularly the language used by the teacher and areas of potential in relation to the needs of children with linguistic delay or difference.
Russell Jones lectures in English at John Moores University, Liverpool. He worked for seven years with British Rail and acted as Trade Union representative. He completed a degree in English and spent eight years working in primary schools in Cheshire and North Staffordshire. He has taught art at Keele University and history at Manchester Metropolitan University. He completed his doctorate as a full-time student, the focus of the research being student teacher education in exclusive white contexts. That has since been published as a book with the title, Teaching Racismor Tackling it?: Multicultural Stories from White Beginning Teachers.
Sue Lewis gained a BA in English from Kings College, London, and an MA in Education from the Open University. She taught English, Drama and English for Speakers of Other Languages in Sweden, London and North Wales. In 1989 she was appointed Equal Opportunities Co-ordinator for Clwyd Education Authority and became the Welsh representative to the European Womens Lobby in Brussels. Since 1993 she has been a Senior Lecturer in Secondary Education at the Crewe and Alsaber Faculty, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Lea Myers is a lecturer in Special Educational Needs at the University of East London, Department of Education and Community Studies.
Viv Parker is Reader in Educational Development and Co-ordinator for Students with Disabilities at the University of East London which has successfully bid at each of the three phases of funding from HEFCE.
Miranda Preston is Senior lecturer in Special Educational Needs at The Chichester Institute of Higher Education. She has worked in schools in the United States of America, France and Britain for over twenty years. She writes on a variety of special needs topics and works on a consultative basis for several special needs advisory groups. Her publications include Four Times Harder: Six Case Studies of Students with Dyslexia in Higher Education.
Sneh Shah BA, MA, PGCE, PGCE, FRSA; is the Director of the Centre for Equality Issues in Education, University of Hertfordshire. The Centre was set up in 1995 and its activities include annual conferences and establishing links with local, national and international organisations. She is also the Editor of New Era in Education, published three times a year by World Education Fellowship. Her recent research projects have included an evaluation of the Pilot Project for the Mentoring Project funded by World Studies Trust, and the project on Access Course students becoming qualified teachers was funded by the Teacher Training Agency.
Harkirtan Singh-Raud PhD is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Education and Community Studies at John Moores University, Liverpool.
