We are pleased to announce the appointment, within the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, of Professor Ellen Boeren as Professor of Adult Education and Deputy Director of Research, from 1 July 2019.

Currently working at the Moray House School of Education at the University of Edinburgh, Ellen holds a PhD in Educational Sciences from the Catholic University Leuven in Belgium. Her research interests are in the field of higher/adult/lifelong education. She has extensive experience in conducting (European) comparative research in these areas and has a special interest in survey methodology.

In 2016, she went through the Thomas J. Alexander fellowship with the OECD (funded by the George Soros' Open Society Foundation) and has been the Edinburgh team lead on the Horizon 2020 funded project ENLIVEN - Encouraging Lifelong Learning for a Vibrant and Inclusive Europe. She is currently finalising an Erasmus+ project with partners in Spain, Italy and Poland, looking into the computational thinking skills of adults.

In recent months, she has worked with the UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning as one of the editors of the Fourth Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE – with Professor John Field) and provides expert advice to the European Commission’s Expert Network on Adult Education. Ellen served as Chair of SCUTREA between 2014 and 2017 and is currently the society’s Treasurer.

She is the sole author of 'Lifelong Learning Participation in a Changing Policy Context: an Interdisciplinary Theory', for which she won the 2017 Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Adult Education Literature. She has published multiple journal articles, book chapters and commissioned reports.