The first meeting of the Scottish National Advisory Board (NAB) was held in the School of Education of the University of Glasgow on the 16th November 2016.
The purposes of the meeting were:
- Introducing the research team and the members of the NAB
- Presenting the Young-ADULLLT project to the NAB members
- Presenting and discussing the Scottish impact strategy for the project
- Presenting and discussing the mapping and analysis of the LLL policies in Glasgow City Region and Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Region
- Promoting and enhancing forms of collaboration amongst participants
The members of the NAB appreciate the relevance of the project for the Scottish context and expressed their interest in the project and their willingness to collaborate and engage with the research community and to participate in the dissemination activities of the project.
The participants of this first NAB meeting were:
NAB members:
- Janet Brown, Scottish Funding Council
- Fiona Burns, Scottish Funding Council
- David James, Cardiff University
- Andy Furlong, University of Glasgow
- Maureen Mallon, Education Scotland
- Audrey MacDougall, Scottish Government
- Andrew Witty, Colleges Scotland
Apologies: Lesley Brown, Education Scotland; Jonathan Clark, Skills Development Scotland; Robert Wright, University of Strathclyde; Lorna Unwin, Institute of Education (UCL)
School of Education:
- Queralt Capsada-Munsech, Postdoctoral Researcher and Project Coodinator
- Chris Chapman, Chair of Educational Policy and Practice
- Lesley Doyle, Senior Lecturer
- Kristinn Hermannsson, Lecturer
- Jonny Houston, Research Administrator
- Kevin Lowden, Senior Researcher
- Mike Osborne, Chair of Adult & Lifelong Learning Education
- Michele Schweisfurth, Director of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change
- Oscar Valiente, Senior Lecturer and the Principal Investigator
- Patricia Wallace, Manager of the Robert Owen centre for Educational Change
Find out more about the project at Young-ADULLLT Project (Scotland)