SCUTREA Conference 2018 Extension for abstracts

News

Good News. We have decided to extend the deadline date for abstracts for the conference to Friday the 9th of February. Please revisit the call for papers on the SCUTREA website which details the conference theme "Lifelong Learning and the Pedagogy of Hope" in full.

I am also delighted to announce that we have secured David Blunkett, a very high profile Keynote speaker, for Wednesday morning of the conference; please see below.

Conference bookings will open next week and we will be emailing to let you know exactly when you can start to select your packages and make bookings

Kind Regards,

Wayne


David Blunkett – Biography for SCUTREA conference

As hosts of the 2018 SCUTREA conference, the Department for Lifelong Learning at the University of Sheffield are delighted to announce that The Right Hon, The Lord Blunkett (David Blunkett) has agreed to be our Keynote speaker.

Blind from birth and from an underprivileged family from one of Sheffield’s most deprived districts, Lord Blunkett rose to become Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary in Tony Blair’s Labour Government. In 2015 he was awarded a peerage, becoming Baron Blunkett of Brightside and Hillsborough and entering The House of Lords.

As a schoolboy, David Blunkett attended several schools for the blind. He then worked as a clerk typist whilst studying part time for six years at a local Technical College, attending evening and day release classes to get the qualifications he needed to enter Higher Education. In 1969 he took up a place at The University of Sheffield as a mature student, graduating with a BA (Hons) in Political Theory and Institutions. Whilst still a student, he was elected to Sheffield City Council becoming its Leader from 1980 to 1987 at a time of very significant economic and political upheaval for both local and central government. In 1987, he won a seat as Labour Member of Parliament for Sheffield’s Brightside and Hillsborough constituency; representing his local community for 28 years until 2015.

David Blunkett is a passionate advocate of Education; and Lifelong Learning in particular. As Education and Employment Secretary, he was responsible for the publication and the preface to the influential Learning Age Green Paper (1998) which was described at a recent conference as ‘the high water mark of lifelong learning policy in England’.  As a legatee of adult education, David is well placed to talk about the transformative value of learning to individuals and communities and the extent to which his own personal learning journey shaped his subsequent career and life experiences.

Outside politics, David Blunkett is the Vice-President and Ambassador of both the British Alzheimer’s Society and the Royal National Institute of the Blind. He is a Board member for the National Citizens Service and chairs the Sheffield City Partnership Board.  Outside politics and public service he has also appeared on a celebrity version of Mastermind – where his specialist subject was Harry Potter - and as a celebrity chef competing against Gordon Ramsey on the F Word. He was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2014 and is currently Professor of Politics in Practice and Chair of the Crick Centre in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield. This represents a return full circle for Lord Blunkett, since Sir Bernard Crick, after whom the Crick Centre is named, was a renowned British political theorist who taught at Harvard, the London School of Economics, Birkbeck (University of London) and the University of Sheffield; where Crick was one of David Blunkett’s tutors.

The keynote speech on Wednesday morning is expected to last for approximately 30 minutes followed by a 10-minute Q&A session. We very much look forward to welcoming Lord Blunkett to our conference to talk to the theme “Lifelong Learning and the Pedagogy of Hope”.

 

 

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