John Field

Submitted by John Field on May 29, 2010 - 21:18

Deputy Principal for Research and Knowledge Transfer between 2002 and 2007, University of Stirling
Professor of Lifelong Learning, University of Stirling
Visiting Professor of Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick, 2014 -
Guest Professor, University of Cologne, 2016

Interests/Expertise:

Strategies for the development of Lifelong Learning
Strategies for the development of Adult Skills
Development of Social Capital

Strategic research management

Recent research/consultancy:

For OECD – typology of adult learning (consultancy)
For Economic & Social Research Council – agency, identity and learning across the life course (research) ,
For NGOs and government bodies across Scotland – variety of commissioned keynotes and papers on applications of social capital

Recognitions, positions, memberships:

Selected publications:

Universities and Engagement:International perspectives on higher education and lifelong learning (edited with B. Schmidt-Hertha and A. Waxenegger), 2015, Routledge
Social Networks, Innovation and Learning: Can policies for social capital promote both economic dynamism and social justice? Observatory PASCAL, Melbourne/Stirling, http://www.obs-pascal.com/resources/johnfieldfebruary2006.doc, pp. 25
Social Capital and Lifelong Learning, Policy Press, Bristol, 2005, pp 176
Social Capital, Routledge, London, 2nd edition 2006, pp. 165
Working Men’s Bodies: work camps in Britain, 1880-1939, Manchester University Press, 2013
Promoting European Dimensions in Lifelong Learning (editor), National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, Leicester, 2002
Adult Education and Democratic Citizenship, vol. 3 (ed. with Michał Bron), European Society for Research on the Education of Adults / Wydawnictwo Impuls, Kraków, 2001, pp. 207.
Lifelong Learning and the New Educational Order, Trentham Press, 2000. Reprinted 2002. Second fully revised edition 2006 (204 pp). Japanese edition, Gakubun-sha, Tokyo, 2004.

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