I was a Senior Research Officer at INETI – National Institute of Engineering, Technology and Innovation, I. P., Portugal and a Visiting Full Professor, Institute of Information Management at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Portugal. I also held various positions, such as Director of the Technical Information Centre for Industry, CITI/LNETI and was President of the Steering Committee, Escola Superior de Educação, Leiria Polytechnic Institute, Portugal.
I am German by background but have spent all my professional life in the UK. I and until recently Senior Lecturer (Lifelong Learning) at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, teaching mainly with postgraduate students on aspects of Lifelong Learning. In addition, I have researched and published widely around lifelong learning, work-life balance, citizenship education, higher education, research methods in education and international and comparative education.
Briony has spent the last twenty years working with a wide variety of audiences and mediums from newspapers to television and field schools to lecture halls communicating her love and knowledge of BC’s ecosystems and cultures. An award-winning natural history columnist and feature writer, from Canadian Geographic to Explore magazines, and a BC Books bestseller with her book On the Wild Side, she combines punchy media skills with her research affiliations at UVic.
Professor Tom Schuller is currently director of Longview, a UK thinktank promoting the value of longitudinal and lifecourse research (see www.longviewuk.com).
From 2008-10, led the UK NIACE Commission on Lifelong Learning, and co-authored its main report, Learning Through Life, with Dir David Watson. Visiting Professor at Birkbeck and at the Institute of Education in London.
Professor Hans G. Schuetze is a Fellow and former Director, Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is also a Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
PhD in international law and comparative government (University of Göttingen, Germany), LL.M. (University of California at Berkeley), German Bar Exam ('zweites juristisches Staatsexamen').
Originally from Dublin, Professor Maria Slowey is Director of Higher Education Research and Development in Dublin City University, where, from 2004 to 2009 she was Vice-President for Learning Innovation and Academic Registrar. She has held senior academic leadership and managerial positions in three different universities in Ireland (DCU: 2004 to present) Scotland (University of Glasgow: 1992-2004) and England (University of Northumbria: 1984-1992).
Director of Administration (Helsinki City Construction & Technical Services)
City of Helsinki
Finland
Arranged the cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa to join Pure-project. Member of the Regional Coordination Group. Was a member of a review team for Northern Illinois (US). Have subsequently been invited to make presentations within the Universitas 21 group of research-intensive universities in Melbourne and at the UBC in Vancouver.
Bob Gleeson is Interim Dean, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, and Levin Chair & Professor, Urban Studies and Public Service, Cleveland State University
He served most recently as adjunct professor of ethics, history, and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University and vice president of policy research and Thomas C. Sutton Chair in Policy Research at the Public Policy Institute of California.
