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My Work

Full member, Writers’ Guild of Great Britain; member, UK Evaluation Society.

 

Founding chair and director, the Gaddings Dam Preservation Company Limited.

Research 

The Creed and Prophet Series of the East Window of Beverley Minster’ Journal of the British Society of
Master Glass Painters. 1983 

The Cost of Mentoring and Assessing Route 3 UfI learners (Research report for the UK Government’s
University for Industry, 1997, with Margaret Gibbons)  

The Use and Attitudes Towards ICTs by People from Minority Ethnic Groups - West Yorkshire Case
Study:  Bradford Moor (Bradford), and Chapel Allerton and Harehills (Leeds) (University of Leeds, 2003, with Ian Law and David Wilkinson) 

The Use of and Attitudes Towards Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by People from Black and Ethnic Minority Groups Living in Deprived Areas 
(Department for Education and Skills, Research Report 450, 2003, with David Owen, Anne Green, Mike McLeod, Ian Law and David Wilkinson) 

Disability, ICT and Employability:  A Research Report
(Leeds City Council/ ESF Equal, 2005, with Jill Edwards)  

Evaluation and Analysis
 

Digest of Development and Training Resources for Staff Supporting Disabled People in
West Yorkshire (Learning and Skills Council West Yorkshire, 2004, with David Wilkinson)  

Work and Health – Changing People’s Lives.  NHS Regional Employability Programme:  report of the University of Leeds Evaluation team (NHS/ Yorkshire Forward, 2007, with Fiona O’Neill and David Wilkinson)
 

Grey Panther Programme Evaluation Report
(Research Toolkit Ltd, 2007, with David Wilkinson) 

RISE Programme Evaluation Report
(Research Toolkit Ltd, 2008, with David Wilkinson) 

Towards a Framework for Post Registration Nursing Careers:  report of the outcomes from the national consultation 
(Chief Nursing Officer’s Office, Department of Health, 2008, with David Wilkinson)  

Evaluation of Leeds Aimhigher
(Education Leeds, 2008, with David Wilkinson and Simon Maguire)  

Books and Other Publications
 


‘Danger: Artists at Work’, Times Higher Education Supplement (1983, with Gary Roberts)
 

Caution: A Guide to Safe Practice in the Arts and Crafts
(HMSO, 1984, with Gary Roberts) 

Editor, First Aid News 1984-85 (British Safety Council)
 

Safety First
(JM Dent, London, 1987, with James Tye)  

Printsafe: the Guide to Safe, Healthy and Green Printmaking
(Estamp, London,1989) 

British Rail: The Radical Alternative to Privatisation
(Centre for Local Economic Strategies, 1989. Edited, written by Paul Salveson) 

The ‘It’s My City’ Project Directory
(BBC North West, Compiled and Edited,1989) 

The Artist’s Handbook No 2: Safe Practice
(AN Publications, Sunderland, 1990, with Gary Roberts) 

Editor, Local Economic News 1989-90 (Centre for Local Economic Strategies)
 

Obituary, Ernest Harwood, The Guardian, 1991 
 

Production Editor, Capability Journal 1996-2002 (refereed journal, Higher Education for Capability,
University of Middlesex)  Higher Education Academy Archive, 2008 

Key Skills in Higher Education?
(Edited, with Professor John Stephenson, 1998).  Unpublished conference proceedings, Higher Education Academy Archive, 2008  


Researching Work and Learning
(University of Leeds, editorial production of conference proceedings, 65 academic papers, 800 pages of text, 1999)


Beyond Boundaries: the impact of Aimhigher in Leeds
(Education Leeds, 2009, with David Wilkinson and Simon Maguire)
  

Published Video
 


Employability:  Work and Health – Changing People’s Lives
  Video production (‘Powerful and moving’, Veronica Burley, Director of Workforce Development, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals). Yorkshire Forward/ NHS. 2006 (with David Wilkinson and Fiona O'Neill)

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Working Journeys Video production, Research Toolkit Limited, 2010
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Parents and Carers Pdf report with embedded video, Aimhigher West Yorkshire, 2010
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Current Work

Evaluation of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Skills Passport Employability Programme (Research Toolkit Ltd) 

Parents and Carers: a series of case studies of best practice
(Education Leeds)
 

Evaluation of the Working Minds Project (Leeds Mind, through the Research Toolkit Ltd)

Evaluation of the Reaching Out Programme (Calderdale WomenCentre, through the Research Toolkit Ltd)