[ Qualifications ]
[ Principal Interests ] [ Research
Supervision ]
[ Biographical
Note ] [ Current
and Recent Research ] [ Publications ]
Qualifications
- 2007: Doctor of Education (University
of Edinburgh)
- 1989: Master of Philosophy - Social
Policy
(Cranfield Institute of Technology)
- 1987: PG Diploma in Management
Studies
(Lancashire Polytechnic)
- 1977: PG Diploma in Youth and Community
Work (Manchester Polytechnic)
- 1976: Master of Theology (St Andrews
University)
Principal
Interests
I am interested in enhancing teaching and learning in a variety of settings. Specific areas include:
- Widening participation
- Work based learning
- Youth work
- Educational groupwork
- Teaching and learning in HE
- Voluntary sector management
Research
Supervision
I am happy to supervise research under the headings above.
Biographical
Note
Following some 15 years in the
field of youth and community work, including senior management experience,
I built on my interest in training to enter Higher Education. I am now
Senior Lecturer Community Education, and currently Programme Director for
the MSc/PGDip
in Community Education. My MPhil by research was concerned
with understanding good practice at unit level in youth and community work.
I have over 10 years of experience of research in widening access to Higher
Education. I recently completed my EdD thesis, which drew on Habermas's
ideas about communicative action, to develop a conceptual framework for
a discursive approach to training of community educators. I am particularly
interested in teaching and learning in HE, and in work-based learning.
In the past 10 years I have published regularly in these areas, but I am
also interested in youth work, educational groupwork and voluntary sector
management.
Current
and Recent Research
I am currently involved in three
main areas of personal academic research:
- Discursive approaches to teaching and learning in HE
- Developing CPD initiatives for CLD practitioners
- Rethinking widening participation:
towards a sufficiency model of non-traditional students
Publications
Recent
Publications:
Bamber,
J. and O'Shea, C. (2008) Purposeful Partnerships:
bridging the gap between academia and the workplace,
in Ferrier, F. and Heagney, M. (eds) Higher Education
in Diverse Communities. Global Perspectives, Local
Initiatives, published by the European Access Network
and the Higher Education Authority Ireland.
Bamber, J (2007) Maximising Educational Potential in HE: a Curriculum Response to Student Diversity, in Crosling, G., Heagney, M. and Thomas, L. (eds) Improving Student Retention in Higher Education: Engaging Students Through an Inclusive Curriculum, London: Routledge Falmer.
Bamber, J., O'Shea, C., Ball, I. and Wallace, G. (2007) Situating the Curriculum:
Developing An Integrated Approach to Work-Based and Part-Time Training in Community
Learning and Development. The Scottish Community Learning and Development Work-Based
and Part-Time Training Consortium: Dundee.
Tett, L., Bamber, J., Edwards, V., Martin, I., and Shaw, M. (2007) Developing Competence: Early and Mid Career in Community Learning and Development. Report for Learning Connections, Scottish Government Agency.
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