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Professor John Field
Project Director
University of Stirling


John.Field@stir.ac.uk
Tel. +44 (0) 1786 466145

Role in the project "Learning Lives"

Co-director, with particular responsibility within the project for overseeing research into learning and work.

Background & Expertise

Has written widely on aspects of lifelong learning, with particular interests in adult learning and social capital. His most recent books include Lifelong Learning and the New Educational Order (Trentham) and Social Capital (Routledge). He has advised a number of government bodies in Britain and elsewhere, and was a member of the National Advisory Group on Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, whose report influenced the Green Paper, The Learning Age. He works in the Institute of Education, University of Stirling, where he directs the Division of Academic Innovation and Continuing Education.