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Dr Nadia Edmond BSc, Cert. Ed, M.Phil, EdD

Assistant Head of School

contact:
Education
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643448

Email: N.Edmond@brighton.ac.uk

Duties

  • Assistant Head  CPD/Learning and Teaching
  • Chair, Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee
  • Member of Faculty Academic Board
  • Chair, School Learning and Development Strategic Committee
  • Member of: School of Education Management Group; School Board of Study
  • Member of University Academic Board

Teaching

  • BA(Hons) Education
  • MA Education
  • FdA Professional Studies in Primary Education
  • Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD)

Research

  • The professional development of higher technicians and associate professionals
  • Work-based learning and Higher Education
  • Pedagogy and professional Knowledge
  • Situated learning and communities of practice
  • Policy and practice in Professional Development
  • The construction of professional identities

Consultancy

  • Higher level teaching assistants assessment and training pilots

Biography

After a BSc in Psychology, I went on to work in adolescent residential care at a time of high youth unemployment where I developed an interest in policy responses to youth unemployment and completed a comparative study of youth training schemes in France and England for an M.Phil degree at the London Institute of Education in 1985.  I subsequently worked as project officer for a Greater London Council funded project supporting young women in youth training and qualified to teach and taught in Further Education.  I went on to work as project officer for the Manpower Services funded “work-based learning project”  which aimed to develop good practice models of work based learning to help raise the quality of current work based learning practice.  I then worked for Haringey Education Service Training Agency where as well as working with unemployed youth I became involved in a consultancy project on the development of National Vocational Qualifications.  A move to Middlesex University was quickly followed by a move to the University of Brighton where I have continued to develop both my practice in relation to, and theorising of,  work-based learning.   My current research focus is on work-based learning and the role of Higher Education in the ‘professionalisation’ of work roles and in particular in the context of employees studying Foundation Degrees part-time.

I am a member of the University Council for the Education of Teachers CPD committee and a member of the Society for Research into Higher Education. 

Selected Recent Publications

Books

  • Edmond, N. & Price, M. (Eds) (2012) Integrated Working with Children and Young People, London: Sage

Articles

  • Edmond, N. (2012) “The ‘Assistant Practitioner’ as ‘Associate Professional’?  A critical exploration of professional learning and professionalism for ‘intermediate’ roles in the employment sectors of Health and Social Care and Education, Studies in Continuing Education 34 (1) 45-56
  • Edmond, N. (2010) The role of HE in professional development: some reflections on a foundation degree for teaching assistants. Teaching in Higher Education, Volume 15, Number 3 (June 2010), pp. 311-322
  • Edmond, N. & Price, M.  (2009) “Workforce re-modelling and pastoral care in schools: a diversification of roles or a de-professionalisation of functions?” Pastoral Care in Education, Volume 27 Issue 4, Pages 301 – 311
  • Edmond, N., Hillier, Y., Price, M. (2007) “Between a rock and a hard place: the role of HE and Foundation Degrees in Workforce Development” Education and Training, 49/3 2007.
  • Edmond, N. (2004) Development by degrees: the Foundation Degree as evidence of a new HE: a study of HE provision for teaching assistants. Higher Education Review. Forthcoming.
  • Edmond, N. (2003) School-based learning: constraints and limitations in learning from school experience for Teaching Assistants. Journal of Education for Teaching, 29(2).
  • Edmond, N. and Hughes, N. (2000) The development of a school-based approach to staff development for study support. Educational Review, 52(3).
  • Edmond, N., Betteridge, D. and Cundell, S. (1998) Auditing IV Practice - a tool for GNVQ Centres. London: FEDA.

Conference Papers

  • 2011, Edmond, N., Reeve, F., "Work-based Higher Education and Skills Utilisation” The 7th International Conference on Researching Work and Learning, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 4th- 7th December.
  • 2011, Edmond, N., Reeve, F., “Work-based higher education and skill utilisation, examining the interaction between the academy and the workplace”, Paper presented at the Professional Lifelong Learning: Critical Perspectives on Professional Learning, 5th Annual conference, Leeds, 13th June  2011.
  • 2010, Edmond, N., Little, B., Reeve, F., “the meaning of HE in developing professional identities: some reflections on work-based foundation degrees and skill utilisation”, Paper presented at the SRHE Annual Research Conference 2010, Celtic Manor, Newport 14th-16th December.
  • 2010 Edmond, N., Aranda, K., Gaudoin, R., Law, K. “The ‘Assistant Practitioner’ as ‘Associate Professional’?  A critical exploration of professional learning and professionalism for ‘intermediate’ roles in the employment sectors of Health and Social Care and Education”, Paper presented at the 4th Professional Lifelong Learning Conference, Leeds 11th January 2010.
  • 2009 Edmond, N., Fuller, A., Hillier, Y., Ingram, R., Little, B., Reeve, F., Webb, S. “Really useful qualifications and learning? Exploring the policy effects of new sub-bachelors degree qualifications” Symposium presented at the 39th Annual SCUTREA Conference, 7-9 July 2009, University of Cambridge. Available from: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/181990.doc
  • 2009 Edmond, N. “More than just a teaching assistant”: the role of partnerships between HEIs and schools in the creation of an intermediate professional status for teaching assistants”, Paper presented at the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning Annual Conference, Brighton 22nd-24th March 2009
  • 2008  Edmond, N. “Valuing Higher Education in work-based learning for associate professional roles.” (0156) Paper presented at Valuing Higher Education, SRHE Annual Conference, Liverpool 9th-11th December 2008
  • 2007 Edmond, N. & Price, M. “The emergence of new ‘professional’ and ‘associate professional’ roles in the children’s workforce – A rhetorical device or a new model of professionalism?”, Paper presented at the 2nd  Annual Professional Lifelong Learning Conference, Leeds 9th July 2007