Special Issue: advancing theory and research in widening participation

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Notes on contributors

Dr Ellen Boeren is lecturer at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh (UK). She is leading the Edinburgh team within the European funded Horizon 2020 project ENLIVEN ‘Encouraging Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive and Vibrant Europe’ and worked with the OECD as part of the Thomas J. Alexander fellowship scheme. In 2016, her book ‘Lifelong learning participation in a changing policy context: an interdisciplinary theory’ was published by Palgrave-MacMillan. She is Programme Director of Edinburgh’s M.Sc. in Educational Research and teaches Comparative Analysis in Education. She is Chair of the Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA).

Dr Nalita James is Associate Professor in Education, University of Leicester. Her research interests include: access to higher education, adult education, lifelong learning, educational transitions, and educational policy. Together with Hugh Busher she has conducted research on access to higher education (funded by the British Academy and Aim Awards 2011–2013) and is published widely in this area. She is co-author (with Hugh Busher) of Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning: A Study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma (Routledge, 2018).