Birkbeck, University of London
Faculty Member, Social Policy and Education
Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender
About
Sue Jackson joined Birkbeck in October 2001, where she is Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender, Pro-Vice-Master for Learning and Teaching, and Director of Birkbeck Institute for Lifelong Learning.
Sue directs the postgraduate certificate, diploma and MSc in Education, power and social change; the postgraduate certificate in education: higher education; and supervises education and lifelong learning doctoral students.
Sue has completed three books:
• Differently academic: developing lifelong learning for women in higher education (Kluwer Academic Press, 2004)
• Challenges and negotiations for women in higher education (co-edited book, jointly with Professor Gayle Letherby and Dr Pam Coterill) (Springer Academic Press, 2007)
• Reconceptualising lifelong learning: feminist interventions (co-authored book, jointly with Dr Penny Burke) (Routledge, 2007).
She is currently working on three more books:
• Gendered choices: Learning, Work, Identities in Lifelong Learning (co-co-edited with Irene Malcolm and Kate Thomas) (Springer Academic Press), 2010, forthcoming)
• Innovations in lifelong learning: critical perspectives on diversity, participation and vocational learning (Routledge, 2010 forthcoming)
• Lifelong learning and social justice: communities, work and identitites in a globalised world(NAICE 2011 forthcoming)
Other recent publications include:
• “Higher education, mature students and employment goals: policies and practices in the UK” Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2010 forthcoming (with Jamieson, A.,)
• “Learning through social spaces: migrant women and lifelong learning in post-colonial London”, to International Journal of Lifelong Education - Special issue: ‘Lifelong Education in the Age of Transnational Migration’, 2010 forthcoming
• ‘Living London: Women negotiating identities in a post-colonial city’ in Wetherell, M. (ed) Liveable Lives: Negotiating Identities in New Times Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (with Cox, R., Khatwa, M. and Kiwan, D.) (2009 forthcoming)
• "Diversity, Identity and Belonging: Women's Spaces of Sociality" The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Volume 8:3 2008 pp 147-154
• “Freire re-viewed” Educational Theory, 57:1 2007
• “Foundation degrees and the knowledge economy” Journal of Vocational Education and Training: Special issue on Gender matters. Perspectives on women, work and training (with Brine, J. and Webb, S) 58:4 December 2006 pp 563-576
• “Gender, class and ‘race’ in lifelong learning: policy and practice in the UK and EU” introduction to special issue of the British Educational Research Journal, 32: 5 October 2006 pp 643-648 (with Brine, J., Blaxter, L., and Hughes, C. )
• “Jam, Jerusalem and Calendar Girls: lifelong learning and the WI” Studies in the Education of Adults 38:1 Spring 2006 pp74-90
Sue’s research interests include her work on three research projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council:
• ESRC RES-148-25-0022 (2007) Intersecting identities: Women's spaces of sociality in post-colonial London (Identities and Social Action Programme) (with Dr Rosie Cox, Dr Dina Kiwan and Dr Yasmeen Narayan)
• ESRC RES-000-22-1441 (2005) Learning citizenship: lifelong learning, community and the Women's Institutes.
• ESRC seminar series RES-451-26-0141 (2004) (jointly with Professor Jacky Brine, Dr Christina Hughes and Dr Loraine Blaxter) Gender and Lifelong Learning.
Sue is also 'lead academic' on Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), 'Developing leadership skills, global citizenship and intercultural communicative competence among young people'. This KTP grant (for £122,818) is funded by the ESRC/TSB in partnership with Raleigh International.
Other current research interests widening participation through foundation degrees; pedagogies of and for lifelong learning; and older women, lifelong learning and social justice.
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