Emily
Read some interesting news selected for you by Emily, the Centre's Psychology Researcher.
Derek Goldman
Derek Goldman, an Independent Educational Consultant and Trainer, previously spent many years in the public sector working with children and young people in communities, schools and more specialised provision. He has considerable experience of partnership working and 'joined up approaches' in supporting children, young people and their families from disadvantaged backgrounds who are faced with specific life challenges.
He is an Associate Lecturer with The Open University tutoring on numerous undergraduate programmes in Social /Youth Work and in Leadership and Management Practices in the workplace.
Derek is also an associate with the Centre and in this capacity involved in delivering various training courses and workshops.
As a Centre associate Derek is also currently liaising with Stanford University in the U.S. where we are collaborating on a research project with Professor Carol Dweck on the Growth Mindset.
Derek Goldman:The benefits of outdoor education
Derek Goldman, an Independent Educational Consultant and Trainer, previously spent many years in the public sector working with children and young people in communities, schools and more specialised provision. He has considerable experience of partnership working and 'joined up approaches' in supporting children, young people and their families from disadvantaged backgrounds who are faced with specific life challenges.
He is an Associate Lecturer with The Open University tutoring on numerous undergraduate programmes in Social /Youth Work and in Leadership and Management Practices in the workplace.
Derek is also an associate with the Centre and in this capacity involved in delivering various training courses and workshops.
As a Centre associate Derek is also currently liaising with Stanford University in the U.S. where we are collaborating on a research project with Professor Carol Dweck on the Growth Mindset.
Alan Sinclair
Alan is a Centre Associate. For five years he was Senior Director for Skills and Learning at Scottish Enterprise. Prior to this he set up Heatwise which trained unemployed people to insulate houses and grew rapidly in scale and reputation. Out of this came the Wise Group and as the Chief Executive he was responsible for its growth into a range of services and its pioneering work in getting long term unemployed people into jobs with regular employers.
Alan's original interest in the early years developed as a result of his interest in the development of workplace skills. The Work Foundation, where he used to be a Fellow, published a compelling provocation by Alan (“0-5: How small children make a big difference”). Since then he has expanded his knowledge of the importance of early years and the family and now spends most of his work time writing and speaking on the topic.
The views expressed here are Alan's and do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre.
