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  • 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: 
  • Educational qualifications: BA, PhD
  • Chair, Scotland's Learning Partnership
  • Member, Wissenschaftliches Beirat, Deutches Institute für Erwachsenenbildung
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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