Faculty of Health, Sport and Behavioural Sciences
Adam has nearly 20 years of experience working with children and young people, mainly working in schools, colleges and outreach programmes, working directly with children and families disaffected by the education system. His professional expertise is working with young people who have been excluded from mainstream schooling as well as young people with complex mental health difficulties. In 2017, Adam moved into teaching HE in FE through twilight delivery for Teaching Assistants and Early Years Professionals seeking Qualified Teacher Status, before moving to the University in 2020 to teach on work-based programmes. He is currently the Admissions tutor for the FD and BA Learning and Teaching and teaches across a range of modules on both courses, as well as leading our HLTA programme as Project Manager.
He is also the host of the Unsung Educators podcast at the University, which looks to explore the experiences of work-based students and how our FD and BA Learning and Teaching has enabled graduates to meet a wide range of professional goals in and around teaching.
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Adam has been involved in a number of projects concerning workforce development of support staff in education. In 2024 he was involved in a short project looking at how international media outlets portrays university students in European contexts. He is currently involved in two longer term projects looking at work-based students competence and confidence in using digital technology in their practice. He is working with colleagues at the Open University, University of Derby, Coventry University and Nottingham Trent University on the impact of the new Level 5 Apprenticeship and implications of this on professionalising support staff in a range of educational contexts.