Professional Service

Current and recent professional service has included:

Editorial Consultant and member of the Editorial Board: International Journal of Lifelong Education.

Editorial Board Member: Vocations and Learning: Studies in Vocational and Professional Education.

Editorial Board Member: SEAMEO VOCTECH Journal.

Associate Editor, International Journal of Learning.

Consulting Editor, Adult Education Quarterly.

Editorial Consultant and member of the Editorial Board: Higher Education Scholar.

Corresponding Editor for the Bulletin of the International Council for University Adult Education.

Manuscript Review Editor for World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd., Singapore.

Manuscript reviewer for Springer.

Occasional manuscript reviewer for research reports and publications: various research centres.

Assessor for the Australian Research Council Research Grants Committee.

Member of the Employment and Training Advisory Group, Queensland

Department of Employment & Training (2002-2004).

Manuscript reviewer for scholarly journals, including:

• Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education.

• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Vocational Education Research.

• Australian Educational Researcher.

• Australian Journal of Adult and Community Education.

• History of Intellectual Culture.

• International Journal of Lifelong Education.

• International Journal of Learning.

• International Journal of Training and Development.

• Journal of Curriculum Studies.

• Journal of Workplace Learning.

• New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning.

• New Horizons in Education.

• School Effectiveness and School Improvement.

• Studies in Continuing Education.

• Studies in Higher Education.

External doctoral thesis examiner for a number of universities, including:

• The Australian National University.

• The University of Canberra.

• Canterbury University.

• Macquarie University.

• The University of Ballarat.

• The University of Bristol.

• The University of New England.

• The University of Nottingham.

• The University of South Australia.

• The University of Tasmania.

• The University of Technology, Sydney.

• Utkal University, Orissa

             
Official NGO Representative for the Asian-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education at the Second UNESCO Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Seoul (April 1999).

Conference Keynote Speaker – various.

Diverse projects as a consultant in professional and vocational education programming, strategic planning, evaluation and research design, for various government departments, professional associations, and educational organisations, including:

• The Department of Non-formal Education, Ministry of Education, Thailand;

• SEAMEO INNOTECH (The Centre for Educational Innovation & Technology of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation);

• The New South Wales Board of Adult Education;

• ASPBAE (The Asian-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education);

• The New England and North West Regional Council of Adult and Community Education;

• The Australian International Training Institute;

• DEVETIR (the Queensland Department of Employment, Vocational Education, Training and Industrial Relations); and

• The Retail and Wholesale Industry Training Advisory Board, Queensland.

• The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Office, Bonn.

Called to give evidence before the hearings of the Parliament of Victoria Education and Training Committee in its enquiry into pre-service teacher training courses (2004).

Called to give evidence before the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training Inquiry into the Appropriate Roles of Institutes of Technical and Further Education (1997/8).

Member of the Working Party on the Inclusion of Vocational Education & Training in Post-Compulsory Education: Board of Teacher Registration, Queensland (1997).

Expert witness to the Australian Senate Employment, Education and Training Reference Committee Inquiry into The Developments in Adult and Community Education Since 1991 (1997).

Member of the Working Party on the Acceptance of Teacher Education Programs in the Adult and Vocational Education Area: Board of Teacher Registration, Queensland (1996).

Member of the Working Party on the Convergence of General and Vocational Education in Secondary Education:  Board of Teacher Registration, Queensland (1996).

Expert witness to the Senate Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training Inquiry into Adult and Community Education (1991).

Foundation Chair of the Research Network of the Australian Association of Adult and Community Education (now Adult Learning Australia) – and Chair of the 1982, 1991, 1994, and 1996 Conference Planning Committees.

Co-Editor of the New England Monographs in Continuing Education.

March 2009