• Lecturer (Social Justice Place and Lifelong Education)

telephone: 01413301801
email: Lynette.Jordan@glasgow.ac.uk

Research interests

Community Learning and Development, Feminisms, Youth Work, Work-based Learning

Grants and awards

• 2011: DelPHE Iraq £29,100 Grant awarded from British Council/DFID
• 2009: EUROlocal Grant awarded from EACEA/European Commission £108,000
• 2006: East End Partnership, Impact of the Activate course on the East End community
• 2004: Capacity Building in East Lothian, funded by the East Lothian District Council

 

Teaching

Lynette teaches in the Bachelor of Arts in Community Development (BACD), MSc in Community Development and MEd in Community Learning & Development programmes.

She is also a member of the School of Education Ethics and Appeals Committees.

International Work

A DelPHE Iraq British Council/DFID funded interdisciplinary Collaboration with Dr Catherine Bovill of the Learning and Teaching Centre

In this project, staff from the University of Glasgow (GU) aim to provide opportunities for academic staff from the Hawler Medical University (HMU) in Iraq, to undertake professional development supporting their aim to increase the use of student centred teaching and learning approaches across the University. The staff from the GU aim to provide face-to-face professional academic development sessions in Iraq , blended with some online support and facilitated learning exercises for staff to complete over the course of one year. These activities have been designed to meet the stated needs of HMU staff, facilitate the participation of women, and to support the implementation of new and challenging forms of teaching and learning among staff and students in a sustainable manner.

In the work we plan to undertake, we hope to adopt a blended approach to learning through the use of both classroom and online activities. Of key importance is that we aim to model good practice in terms of ensuring that the approaches we use within this course will be student-centred, thereby ensuring coherence with course aims. For example, we will use a variety of evaluation methods within the course to elicit participant feedback in participant-centred ways.

EUROlocal Project - Partnership working with LRD Germany, University of Pecs, Hungary and the Universus project at Bari, Italy

The Eurolocal Project is Europe wide and a storehouse for information on European Learning Regions. It is a collaboration between many of the leading proponents of learning regions development, who recognised that the time has come to provide a central repository for more than two decades of data, tools, indicators, reports, videos, projects, recommendations, plans, strategies, learning materials - a wealth of potentially valuable knowledge for all EU regions. Central to the EUROlocal project is an innovative website designed to accommodate the rich variety of Learning Region materials as well as other specific project outputs

Active Learning Centre

As a tutor with the Active Learning Centre she was involved in the following work. ALC is a registered charity that works for people’s rights through education, training and consultant with interests in gender and rights. Work has focused on issues of governance with particular interests in gender and the rights of women and children. Experience in rights based approaches to poverty reduction, capacity building for NGOs and the provision of paralegal services.

• Needs identification, assessment and negotiation with stakeholders

• Project design and management, in particular cascade training programmes

• Project monitoring and evaluation

• Delivery of training for trainers and design, writing and production of training materials

• Research design and delivery, writing and publications

Zambia - May 2001

• Consultancy on governance and political participation: Active Learning Centre

• Zambia Rights and Democracy Project, 2000-2003.

• Project input on training for women trainers, Target audience of 11,000

Croatia - Sept & Dec 2002

• Capacity Building for NGOs; Active Learning Centre – Developing Equal Opportunities for Women in Croatia

• Project delivery, training, production of training materials, evaluation

Turkey - June 2003

• Capacity Building for NGOs; Active Learning Centre – Training of Trainers (Women)

• Project delivery, training, evaluation

Consulting and advice

Ms L Jordan Consultancy, Scottish Homeworking Project - Glasgow Pilot for Scottish Homeworking Group, National Group on Homeworking 2005

Ms L Jordan Consultancy, Active Learning Centre, 'Government relations with NGOs & Civil society', Chevening Project (Foreign Office funded) 2005, 2006 and 2007

Ms L. Jordan & Ms L. Sheridan Consultancy, North Lanarkshire Council User & Carers Forum, Social Work Dept. North Lanarkshire Council December 2005, February 2006 and March 2007

Ms L. Jordan Consultancy Voice of Experience, North Lanarkshire Council 2006

Academic and professional body membership

External Examiner for the Training for Trainers (Women) Programme Active Learning Centre 2001 – 2004
Chairperson for Active Learning Centre 2004 to 2009

Member of the International Centre for Women’s Studies, Politics Department, College of Social Science, University of Glasgow

Member of Gramnet, University of Glasgow

Other relevant work

Reviewer for Agenda Feminist Media 2008