Biografisk notat

Lesley Saunders holds a Visiting Professorship at University College London’s Institute of Education, and an Honorary Research Fellowship at the Department of Education at Oxford University. She is an honorary member of the Chartered College of Teaching, and worked for 13 years at the National Foundation for Educational Research, where she set up and headed the NFER’s School Improvement Research Centre. After holding a short-term secondment at the World Bank, she was appointed Senior Policy Adviser for Research at the General Teaching Council for England. She now works as an independent part-time consultant, with clients ranging from Save the Children in Kosovo to individual university departments of education. Dave Trotman is formerly Professor of Education Policy at Newman University, Birmingham, UK, where he led the Newman Professional Doctorate in Education. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University and External Examiner for the EdD in Health and Wellbeing at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has published work in the fields of creativity and imagination in education, education policy, school exclusion, and educational evaluation.