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Submitted by Tom Schuller on May 8, 2010 - 20:17

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.

2003-2008,  Head of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), OECD, Paris. 

1999-2003  Dean of the Faculty of Continuing Education and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London , also co-director of the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning.

Worked previously at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Warwick, at the Institute for Community Studies and for four years at OECD in the 1970s.

Author or editor of some 15 books, and his research history covers many areas of lifelong learning, but also fields such as employee participation, social capital and the social study of time. Adviser to governments on numerous issues, especially on lifelong learning.

Interests/Expertise: 
  • Lifecourse analysis, including empirical, applied and theoretical work
  • Social capital and its application to educational policy and practice
  • Lifelong learning generally
Recent research/consultancy: 
  • Research,development and innovation in educational R&D: a review of Hugary (2010)
  • Chair, Leading MuseumsGroup for the UK Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
  • Member, Policy Advisory Group of UK Commission on Employment and Skills
Recognitions, positions, memberships: 
  • Academician, UK Academy of Social Sciences.
  • Adult Education International Hall of Fame.
  • Chair, Governing Board, WOrking Mens College (London) - Europe's oldest continuous adult education college.
Selected publications: 
  • The Benefits of Learning: The Impact of Education on Health, Family Life and Social Capital (with John Preston et al, RoutledgeFalmer 2004).
  • International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning (edited with David Istance and Hans Schuetze, Open University Press 2002).
  • Social Capital: Critical Perspectives (edited with Stephen Baron and John Field, OUP 2000).
  • Part-time Higher Education in Scotland (with David Raffe and others, Jessica Kingsley 1998).
  • Life After Work (with Michael Young, HarperCollins 1991). 

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