With over twenty five years of experience of working as a practitioner in the field of community education, I have developed both a national and international reputation for the grassroots application of education for social change. I have delivered sessions, led projects and have worked as a consultant across a vast spectrum of community sectors and inter/national organisations (see selected examples below). I have been Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University and co-leader of its Critical Race and Ethnicity Research Cluster. I am currently Visiting Professor at the Federal University of the Amazon (UFAM) where I contribute to their decolonial community psychology research area.
- Adults with learning disAbilities and special needs
- Children with special needs (SEN)
- Mental health projects, (CAHMS) and psychiatric units
- Grass roots community education groups
- Residential care settings
- Youth offenders institutions
- Pupil referral units
- Head injury units
- Physical disability centres
- Youth clubs
- Schools
- Nurseries
- Universities (Federal University of the Amazon (UFAM), Brazil; University of Namibia and Stellenbosch University, RSA, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Brookes University)
- Public Health England
- Local Authorities
- Neighbourhood Police Units
- National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education
- Education Outreach Departments; Orchestras and Theatres
My work as a community education practitioner and scholar activist (“flipped academic”) forms the foundation of my work as a researcher and critical race scholar.