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		Conference presentation listings
		The Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association was held in New York City between 24-28 March 2008. Flora Macleod presented a co-authored paper by F.J.Macleod and P. Lambe entitled "Role Configurations and Pathways: A Latent Structure Approach to Studying the Likelihood of British Women Participating in Adult Education from Early to Mid Adulthood".
		ESREA Life History & Biographical Research Network Conference was held in Canterbury on 08 March 2008. Heather Hodkinson presented a paper entitled "The significance of emotions in 'formal' learning throughout the lifecourse". Michael Tedder & Gert Biesta presented a paper entitled “Almost a Therapy”: Taking Part in a Life History Research Project". John Field presented a paper entitled "Identity, emotions and learning in the new economy: researching call centre workers".
		Learning and Skills Research Network Conferenceon: Engaging with research - developing a new future, was held on Thursday 6 December 2007 at the Thistle Hotel, Marble Arch, London. Michael Tedder and Ruth Hawthorn attended and presented a paper entitled From aspiration to opportunity – using narratives for IAG
		TLRP and Methodology: What learned? What next? TLRP Annual Conference was held at Marriott Hotel Cardiff 26-27th November 2007. Gert Biesta and Flora Macloed presented papers. Why 'what works' won't work. Evidence-based practice and the democratic deficit of educational research by Gert Biesta University of Exeter, UK Contrasting Concepts of Learning and Contrasting Research Methodologies by Phil Hodkinson, University of Leeds and Flora Macleod, University of Exeter
		European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), the Annual Meeting of the European Educational Research Association (EERA),was held on 19-21 September 2007. The Project Team presented a symposium entitled "Combining Methodologies to Study Learning in the Life Course: Insights from the Learning Lives Project” Examining Pathways of Adult Education Taken by Young Women in Britain: The quantitative stage of a mixed methodological approach by Flora Macleod and Paul Lambe - University of Exeter, UK. Partnership working – on whose terms? Reporting adult learners’ experience by Heather Lynch and John Field, University of Stirling, Scotland. Contrasting Concepts of Learning and Contrasting Research Methodologies: some strengths and weaknesses of life history research by Phil Hodkinson, University of Leeds and Flora MacLeod, University of Exeter, UK What does it take to learn from one’s life? Exploring opportunities for biographical learning in the lifecourse by Michael Tedder and Gert Biesta – University of Exeter, UK. Finding our Story: Sequences and Dispositions in Learning Theory by Ivor Goodson and Norma Adair
		British Educational Research Association (BERA)Annual Conference was held on 6-8 September 2007. The Project Team presented a symposium entitled “Continuity and Change in Lifelong Learning: Insights from the ‘Learning Lives’ Project”. What does it take to learn from one’s life? Exploring opportunities for biographical learning in the lifecourse by Michael Tedder and Gert Biesta – University of Exeter, UK. In/formality in lifelong learning careers by Phil Hodkinson, University of Leeds, UK; Ruth Hawthorn, NICEC, UK; Geoff Ford, NICEC, UK; Heather Hodkinson, University of Leeds, UK. Getting stuck, becoming unstuck – transitions and blockages between learning contexts by Heather Lynch and John Field University of Stirling, Scotland. Role Configurations and Pathways: A Latent Structure Approach to Studying Learning in the Life Course by Flora Macleod and Paul Lambe - University of Exeter, UK.
		Learning and Skills Research Network (LSRN) Conference was held at The Exchange, Bridgwater on 12 July 2007. Michael Tedder presented a co-authored by Gert Biesta a paper entitled 'The Person That I Was Intended To Be’: Learning From Change And Transition In The Lifecourse.
		British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) Annual Conference on 5-7 July 2007: Flora Macleod (Exeter Team) presented a paper entitled 'Role configurations and pathways: a latent structure approach to studying formal learning in the life course'.
		SCUTREA 37th Annual Conference was held on 3- 5 July 2007, at the School of Education, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Field presented a paper entitled 'Partnership working – on whose terms? Reporting adult learners’ experience'.
		ESREA Working Life and Learning Network Conference was held on June 26th 2007: Phil Hodkinson and Heather Hodkinson (Leeds University) presented a paper entitled 'The place of workplace learning in learning lives: a case study'.
		Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning (CRLL) Annual Conference was held on 22-24th June 2007: The Project Team presented a symposium entitled 'Transitions and Learning in the Lifecourse: insights from the Learning Lives Project'. The Making of Two Masks: Transition and Stasis in the Life Story of an Asian Woman by Norma Adair, Education Research Centre, University of Brighton Getting Stuck, Becoming Unstuck: Transitions and Blockages between Learning Contexts by Heather Lynch and John Field, Institute of Education, University of Stirling Lifecourse Turning Points and their Consequences for Learning by Flora Macleod and Paul Lambe, University of Exeter Learning for Life and Learning from Life: Exploring Opportunities for Biographical Learning through the Lifecourse by Michael Tedder and Gert Biesta, University of Exeter Learning and Change in the Transition into the Third Age by Heather Hodkinson and Phil Hodkinson (University of Leeds) and Geoff Ford & Ruth Hawthorn (NICEC) Phil Hodkinson presented a separate paper entitled 'Learning Careers Revisited'
		Continuity and Change in Learning Lives a Seminar Series was held at Leeds University on 03 May 2007. Ruth Hawthorn presented a paper 'Who do you want to be now? Over fifties re-entering the labour market'.
		The Second Nordic Conference on adult learning took place at the Linköping University, Sweden between 17-19 April 2007. John Field (Stirling University) presented a paper entitled 'Social Capital Lifewide Learning: current research, new opportunities'. (Please follow link to Power Point Presentation)
		AERA (American Education Research Association) Annual Conference 9-13th April. Flora Macleod and Paul Lambe presented a paper entitled 'What are the Odds of making an early Transition into Adult Education? Evidence from a cohort of 1997 initial phase leavers in England'.
		ESREA (European Society for Research on Education of Adults) Network Conference on Life History and Biography March 1st-4th 2007 Roskilde University, Denmark Hodkinson, P. and Macleod F. (2007) "Contrasting Concepts of Learning and Contrasting Research Methodologies: some strengths and weaknesses of life history research" Goodson, I. and Adair, N. (2007) "Finding our Story: Sequences and Dispositions in Learning Lives" Hodkinson, H. (2007) "Learning as becoming through the Lifecourse. Contrasting and changing relationships with identity" Tedder, M. and Biesta, G. (2007) "Learning from life and learning for life. Exploring the opportunities for biographical learning in the lives of adults" Adair, N.E. (2007)"A Story of evolving meaning making in relation to concepts of learning as experienced by the researcher" Lynch, H. (2007) "Learning as desire"
		TLRP New Career Researchers Conference Paul Lambe presented a paper Mapping Adult Learning over the Life Course. Bristol 27-28 February 2007.
		SRHE Conference (Society for Research into Higher Education) Flora Macleod and Paul Lambe, Time invariant and time varying influence on the likelihood of participation in post compulsory formal learning opportunities. Proceedings of the SRHE Conference "Beyond Boundaries": New Horizons for Research into Higher Education (pp 223-224) Brighton 12-14 December 2006.
		ESREA 2006 (European Society for Research on Education of Adults) A paper presented by Gert Biesta and Michael Tedder "Agency and learning in the lifecourse". Access, learning Careers and Identities Network Conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 7-8 December 2006.
		ECER 2006 (European Conference on Educational Research) A paper presented by Norma Adair and Ivor Goodson. "Coming to know: personal knowledge, expert knowledge and the construction of knowledge in research knowledge". Geneva 13-15 September 2006.
		BERA 2006 (British Educational Research Association) Papers presented at the annual conference at University of Warwick 6-9 September 2006. Lambe, P.J. (2006) "Conceptualising and measuring agency using the British Household Panel Survey". Macleod, F.J. & Lambe, P.J. (2006) "Who amongst initial phase leavers in England is least likely to return to adult learning?" Evidence from the BHPS cohort of 1997 leavers.
		European Vocational Educational & Training and Culture Network's 2006 Conference. A paper presented by Heather Hodkinson "Divergent perspectives on learning at, for and through work". Copenhagen, Denmark 23-26 August 2006.
		International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance 2006. A paper presented by Ruth Hawthorn "Career Development Throughout the Life Course: the Learning Lives Project". Universities of Copenhagen and Malmo 23-25 August 2006.
		SCUTREA 2006 (Standing Conference on University Teaching & Research) A symposium convened by Gert Biesta "The Significance of Agency in Lifelong Learning ", Leeds 4-6 July 2006. Tell me your life story: the freedom to speak, the fear to say Norma Adair, University of Brighton, UK Working identities: Gender, agency and social class John Field and Irene Malcolm, University of Stirling, Scotland Agency and learning in the lifecourse by Gert Biesta & Michael Tedder, University of Exeter, Uk
		SCUTREA 2006 (Standing Conference on University Teaching & Research) A symposium convened by Flora Macleod " Learning, Identity and Agency in the Life Course: investigating participation in adult education and training using biographical and panel data ", Leeds 4-6 July 2006. The phased engagement of adults in formal education and training by Heather Hodkinson with Geoff Ford, Ruth Hawthorn and Phil Hodkinson, University of Leeds, UK The place of formal education and training in learning as becoming by Phil Hodkinson with Geoff Ford, Ruth Hawthorn and Heather Hodkinson, University of Leeds, UK The occurrence and timing of return to adult learning among 1997/8 initial full time education leavers in England by Flora Macleod and Paul Lambe, University of Exeter, UK
		ESRC/TLRP Thematic Seminar Series 'Transition through the Life Course: the effects of identity, agency and structure' A paper presented by Gert Biesta and Michael Tedder " Agency and Learning in the Lifecourse ", London 16 May 2006.
		ESREA 2006 conference Life History and Biography Network "Transitional Spaces, Transitional Processes and Research", Volos, Greece, 2-5 March 2006. Malcolm,I.(2006), " Life history research as emotional labour: power, class and gender in transitional spaces" Goodson, I. and N. Adair (2006), " In Search of 'Home': Becoming and Belonging"
		American Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2006 A paper presented by Gert Biesta "Learning Lives: Learning, Identity and Agency in the Life-course. Presented as part of the symposium 'A strategy for the defence, improvement and promotion of educational research: An international example (65.063). San Francisco, 7-11 April 2006.
		4th International Conference on Researching Work and Learning, University of Technology (UTS) Sydney, Australia, 12-14 December 2005 Hodkinson, H. (2005). Learning as becoming, in changing experiences of work throughout life.
		"Post Compulsory Education and Training" Conference, Queensland, Australia, 5-7 December 2005 Hodkinson, H. (2005). Combining life history and longitudinal qualitative research to explore transitions and learning in the life course.
		TLRP Annual Conference, Warwick University, 28-30 November 2005 Malcolm, I. and J. Field (2005). Researching Learning/Working Lives: Issues of Identity, Agency and Changing Experiences of Work Ecclestone, K., T. Blackmore, G.J.J. Biesta, H. Colley and M. Hughes (2005) Transitions through the lifecourse: Political, professional and academic perspectives.
		Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, 4-5 November 2005 Invited keynote lecture at the Conference "Democratic Practices as Learning Opportunities: Comparing International Experiences & Understandings". Biesta, G.J.J. (2005). Towards the learning democracy: In search of spaces for democratic learning.
		Örebro University, Sweden, 16 August 2005 Invited keynote presentation at the Conference on "Bildning & Läranda", Biesta, G.J.J. (2005). What's the point of lifelong learning if lifelong learning has not point?
		LSRN (Learning and Skills Research Network) Regional Conference, 'Teaching, learning and achievement - progression in action', Ilminster, July 2005 Tedder, M.T. and P. Jones (2005): Learners' perspectives of progression in Adult and Community Learning (ACL).
		35th Annual SCUTREA Conference SCUTREA (Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults), 5-7 July 2005, on Diversity & Difference in Lifelong Learning. Malcolm, I. and Field, J. (2005). Researching Learning/Working Lives: Issues of Identity, Agency and Changing Experiences of Work.
		3rd International Conference at CRLL (Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning), University of Stirling, 24-26 June 2005 Field, J. & Biesta, G.J.J., F. Macleod and I. Malcolm (2005). Researching Learning, Identity and Agency across the life course: The Learning Lives project Biesta, G.J.J., Hodkinson, Ph. & Goodson, I. (2005). Combining Life-History and Life-Course Approaches in Researching Lifelong Learning: Methodological Observations from the 'Learning Lives' Project Field, J. and I. Malcolm (2005). Talking about my Generation: Learning, Identity and Agency - The Role of Historical Time and Generational Time over the Life Course
		Birkbeck Institute of Lifelong Learning, May 2005. Field, J. (2005). Time and Generation in Researching the Life Histories of Adult Learners.
		University of Huddersfield, 14 January 2005. Invited presentation at the Post Compulsory Education and Training Research Unit, with the BERA PCE Special Interest Group. Biesta, G.J.J. (2005). Is learning the business of education?
		RCBN (Research Capacity Building Network) Conference, Cardiff University, 22 February 2005 'Methods and Methodologies in Teaching and Learning Research','Methodologies and methods in Learning Life Research' Papers presented: Adair, N. and I. Malcolm, (2005). Ethnical Engagement: Collecting the Learning Biographies of Adults" Biesta, G.J.J. (2004). Combining Life-History and Life-Course Approaches in Researching Lifelong Learning: Some Methodological Observations from the 'Learning Lives' Project.
		RCBN (Research Capacity Building Network) Conference, University of Edinburgh, 2+3 December 2004. 'Life beyond TLRP: A conference for contract and early career researchers'. Short presentation about Learning Lives project Adair, N. (2005). Effect of researchers and researched; the 'what's in it for me' conundrum.
		ESRC/TLRP Conference, University of Cardiff, 22-24 November 2004. The Annual Conference of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme Biesta, G.J.J. (2004). Combining Life-History and Life-Course Approaches in Researching Lifelong Learning: Some Methodological Observations from the 'Learning Lives' Project.
		12-13 November 2004, Viborg, Denmark Workshop presentation: Goodson, I and N. Adair, (2003) 'Professional knowledge, professional lives'.
		LSRN (Learning and Skills Research Network) Regional Conference, 'Learning and Skills Initiative - Listening to Stakeholder' Voices, Ilminster, July 2004. Sherring, N. and M.T. Tedder (2004): Practitioner Perspectives of Progression for Adults in Community Learning.
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		Project publications
		2008
		Field, J. (2008) 'Good for your soul? Adult learning and mental well-being'. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 28,2,2010.
		Hodkinson, P., Ford, G., Hodkinson, H. & Hawthorn, R. (2008) 'Retirement as a Learning Process', Educational Gerontology, 34:3, 167 - 184
		Macleod, F. & Lambe, P. (2008) Dynamics of adult participation in part time education and training: results from the British Household Panel Survey has been accepted for publication in a special issue of Research Papers in Education on Widening Participation
		2007
		Field, J. & Malcolm, I. (2007) "Talking about my learning generation: the role of historical time and generational time over the life course", pages 67-78 in M. Osborne, M. Houston and N. Toman (eds.), The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning: Understanding effective teaching and learning in diverse contexts, Routledge, London
		Macleod, F. & Lambe, P. (2007) Patterns and trends in part-time adult education participation in relation to UK nation, class, place of participation, gender, age and disability, 1998-2003. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 26(4):399-418.
		Biesta, G. (2007) Why 'what works' won't work. Evidence-based practice and the democratic deficit of educational research. Educational Theory 57(1): 1-22
		Biesta, G. & Tedder, M. (2007) Agency and Learning in the Lifecourse: Towards an Ecological Perspective. Studies in the Education of Adults. Issue 39(2): 132-149
		2006
		Adair, N. E. (2006) Tell me your life story: the freedom to speak, the fear to say, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).
		Biesta, G.J.J., Tedder M.T. (2006) Agency and learning in the lifecourse, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).
		Biesta, G.J.J. (2006) What’s the point of lifelong learning if lifelong learning has no point? On the democratic deficit of policies for lifelong learning. European Educational Research Journal, 5(3-4), 169-180.
		Field, J. & Malcolm, I. (2006) Working identities: gender, agency and social class, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).
		Goodson, I.F. (2006) The reformer knows best, destroying the teacher's vocation, Forum, 48(3), 257-264.
		Hodkinson, H.D., Ford, G., Hawthorn, R. & Hodkinson, P.M. (2006) The phased engagement of adults in formal education and training, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).
		Hodkinson, P.M., Ford, G, Hawthorn, R. & Hodkinson, H.D. (2006) The place of formal education and training in learning as becoming, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).
		Macleod, F.J. & Lambe, P.J. (2006) The occurrence and timing of return to adult learning among 1997/8 initial full time education leavers in England, in: P. Armstrong, J. Coles, R. O'Rourke & M. Zukas (Eds) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning: a global dialogue (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA) (Leeds, University of Leeds & SCUTREA).
		2005
		Biesta, G.J.J., Hodkinson, P. and Goodson, I. (June, 2005). Combining Life-History and Life-Course Approaches in Researching Lifelong Learning: Methodological Observations from the 'Learning Lives' Project. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference: What a Difference a Pedagogy Makes: Researching lifelong learning and teaching edited by J. Caldwell et al. * Please click here for conference presentation *
		Field, J. and Malcolm, I.(June, 2005). Talking about my Generation: learning, identity and agency - the role of historical time and generational time over the life course Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference: What a Difference a Pedagogy Makes: Researching lifelong learning and teaching edited by J. Caldwell et al. * Please click here for conference presentation *
		Malcolm, I. and Field, J. (2005). Researching learning/working lives: issues of identity, agency and changing experiences of work Education-line database: Diversity and Difference in Lifelong Learning edited by P. Coare et al.
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