MUNDI Global Education Centre - Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham
LISA YOUNG
Lisa is the Nottingham and regional coordinator for Learning about Others Project and a project worker at MUNDI. She is an experienced and qualified secondary school teacher of Geography and experienced facilitator in environmental sustainability in the UK/France both classroom and fieldwork and development education projects in the UK and overseas in Nigeria with VSO, and in Morocco with Discover Ltd. She holds an MRes in Environment and Development with a particular focus on sustainable tourism and development in Thailand.
ALEXANDER KOSOGORIN
Alex is the coordinator at Mundi. He is an early years qualified teacher with 6 years classroom experience. He has been involved in development education for 7 years both within the UK at Mundi and as a VSO/Save the Children volunteer in Vietnam. He holds an MA in Education and Social Justice.
Centre for The Study of Social and Global Justice - University Park, Nottingham University
VANESSA ANDREOTTI
Vanessa is a research fellow and Education Coordinator of CSSGJ. She is one of the 'catalysers' of the OSDE initiative. She is a Brazilian educator (qualified teacher and trainer) who has been working for the last 6 years in the field of development and global citizenship education. She is also finishing her PhD on representations of the 'Third and First' worlds in global citizenship education in England.
To be based in New Zealand as from Dec 06 and remaining very much involved with the OSDE initiative from there. Contact through the OSDE website.
Centre for Citizenship Studies in Education - Leicester University
Dr PAUL WARWICK
Paul Warwick is deputy director of the Centre for Citizenship Studies in Education at the University of Leicester and is the Leicester coordinator of LAO. He has worked in the field of curriculum development in Education for Citizenship and Sustainable Development since 1995. He has a particular interest in participatory pedagogy and methods for hearing young people's voices. Presently he teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate courses concerned with supporting educators in developing Education for Citizenship with a specific focus on incorporating the global dimension into education.
Global Education Derby - (GED)
LINDA BARKER
Linda is the Education Co-ordinator at GED and Derby co-ordinator for LAO. She is a qualified primary teacher with 10 years classroom experience. For the last 7 years she has worked in formal Development Education, firstly at MUNDI and now at GED. She has completed the Global Trainers Course at the London Institute of Education and recently became the Chair of the Open Spaces for Dialogue and Enquiry UK Network.
MAGGIE TALTY-SANGHERA
Maggie is a global citizenship officer at GED and a qualified secondary teacher with several years experience. She will work with the primary and secondary strands of LAO.
MARCELA FLORES NEWBURN
Marcela is a global citizenship officer at GED and a qualified primary teacher with several years experience in Primary schools and with SureStart. She will work with the primary and secondary strands of LAO.
KATY NEWELL- JONES LAO Project external evaluator
I have been a member of the DEA for over 10 years, initially involved mainly in community and adult education; more recently I have also been involved in their HE work. I am a consultant and trainer in learning and teaching and one of the trainers on The Global Trainer, a course offered by the Institute of Education (London) in collaboration with the DEA. In 2004 I was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Academy of Higher Education, UK; my fellowship project is exploring the global dimension to learning in HE. I work in the UK and overseas mainly in Africa, the Indian sub-continent and more recently South America, on projects which include literacy, conflict resolution, introducing global perspectives into initial teacher education, training of trainers and health care education. My areas of interest include participatory methodologies, collaborative partnerships, training of facilitators, gender, curriculum design, adult literacy, conflict resolution, monitoring and evaluation.
