 | Lorna Unwin is Professor of Vocational Education and Deputy Director of the ESRC-funded LLAKES Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. LLAKES (Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies) investigates the role of education and training in relation to competitiveness and social cohesion. Lorna worked as a journalist before teaching in further education colleges and adult community education, and worked as an Education Officer for a large retail chain in the UK. From 2003-2006, she was Director of the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester. Her most recent books, Improving Working for Learning (2009) and Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives (2007), were both published by Routledge. Her 2009 professorial lecture, Sensuality, Sustainability and Social Justice: Vocational Education in Changing Times, is available from the Institute of Education. She is a member of the UK Commission on Employment and Skills research panel and is an international expert for the OECD. |
Sunday 1 November 2009, 3.45pm Courtyard Gallery
Recession-proofing: from union militancy to reskilling
Improving Working as Learning (Routledge, 2009)
"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University
