School of Education

Professor Michael Osborne

Professor - Chair of Adult & Lifelong Education (Social Justice Place and Lifelong Education)

telephone: 0141 330 3414
email: Michael.Osborne@glasgow.ac.uk

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1609-385X

Biography

Michael Osborne is Professor of Adult and Lifelong Learning at the University of Glasgow and Director of Research within the School of Education.

He is experienced in adult and continuing education, Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Higher Education research, development and evaluation. He is also Director of the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL) within the College of Social Sciences, and Co-director of the PASCAL Observatory on Place Management, Social Capital and Lifelong Learning within the School of Education. He has been a co-convenor of the People, Places, Engagement and Change research cluster within the Adam Smith Research Foundation of which he was a Board member. CR&DALL is a constituent part of the Glasgow Centre for International Development, providing its Education component, using in particular its links with Africa in this role. Professor Osborne sits on the university's Africa working group.

He is a Visiting Professor at RMIT Melbourne, a Docent of the University of Tampere and is an External Member of the Artistotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

Research interests

Research interests

Professor Osborne's main interests in research and development are: widening participation to higher education, teaching and learning in higher education, the VET/HE interface, community-engaged research, the role of Big Data in Education, and the development of learning cities and regions. He has worked in the field of widening participation for some 30 years, beginning with work developing and evaluating the first Adult Access courses to Higher Education in the former Inner London Education Authority. He has recently published an overview of the last 30 years of access developments in Scotland as a chapter within the book Scottish Education. His most recent work has been directed towards the field of Learning Cities, Lifelong Learning for Work Transition in Mid-life, Big Data, and Teaching and Learning and Innovation in Higher Education.

Research collaborations

He is linked internationally to specialist groups concerned with lifelong learning in Universitas 21, and to organisations such as UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning, the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (DVV) and the Asia Europe Meeting Forum for Lifelong Learning (ASEM LLL Hub within which he convenes a research cluster). Through the umbrella of the 'Big Tent' network he has established collaborative links with a number of significant players in the field of community-engaged research in universities. These organisations are the Global Alliance for Community-based Research (GACER), Asia Pacific Community University Engagement Network (APUCEN), Centro Bolivianos de Estudios Multidisciplinarios (CEBEM), Commonwealth University Extension and Engagement Network, Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI), Living Knowledge Network, Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), Service Learning Asia Network (SLAN) and the Talloires Network. Together these organisations have produced five international communiqués on community engagement in HE, which have been disseminated very widely in Higher Education.

The collaboration with GUNI was manifested in April by the UK launch of the 5th edition of Higher Education in the World in Glasgow, hosted by CR&DALL on 22 April 2014.

He has conducted many projects within the European Commission's (EC) LLL programme, including within its Grundtwig and Transveral programmes. In the UK he has worked with government departments and with a number of agencies including the Higher Education Academy and National Association for Adult and Continuing Education. In Scotland he has worked with and for many bodies including Skills Development Scotland, the Scottish Qualifications Authority, the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament. Through the Pascal Observatory and CRADALL he works closely with many individuals, universities and regions around the world.

Selected publications

Duke, C., Osborne, M. and Wilson, B. (2013) A New Imperative: Regions and Higher Education in Difficult Times. Series: Universities and lifelong learning. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719088308

Brennan, J., Edmunds, R., Houston, M. , Jary, D., Lebeau, Y., Osborne, M. and Richardson, J. (2010) Improving What Is Learned At University: An Exploration Of The Social And Organisational Diversity Of University Education. Series: Improving learning TLRP. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415480154

Benneworth, P. and Osborne, M. (2014) Knowledge, engagement and higher education in Europe. In: Escrigas, C., Granados, J., Hall, B.L. and Tandon, R. (eds.) Higher Education in the World 5 Knowledge, Engagement and Higher Education: Contributing to Social Change. Series: GUNI Series on the Social Commitment of Universities. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 204-217. ISBN 9780230535565

Brennan, J. and Osborne, M. (2008) Higher education's many diversities: of students, institutions and experiences; and outcomes? Research Papers in Education, 23(2), pp. 179-190. (doi:10.1080/02671520802048711)

Grants

Professor Osborne's most substantial current research commitment is as a co-PI within the Urban Big Data Centre, a UK Economic and Social Research Council-funded research centre which will help address the social, economic and environmental challenges facing cities. Within this project he is undertaking an Urban Research Project on Educational Disadvantage and Place in collaboration with Keith Kintrea, and has completed a further project contributing from Education to a contextual multi-media database based on a household survey of 2000 people in Glasgow, GPS tracking, lifelogging and analysis of social media. He is PI of a the project, Strengthening Urban Engagement of Universities in Asia and Africa (SUEUAA), funded by the British Academy under its Cities and Infrastructure programme, part of the Global Challenges Research Fund, working with partners in Iran, Iraq, the Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. He is a Co-I also within the ESRC-funded Global Challenges Research Fund centre co-ordinated from the University of Glasgow, the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods, working with partners in Bangladesh, China, India, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania. He is PI of a project funded within an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, Widening Regional Engagement of HE and TVET, working with partners in Hong Kong, Italy and China.

His most recently completed research includes European Commission funded projects on communities of practice in lifelong learning programmes (DISCUSS) and on labour efficiency in tertiary adult education at universities (LETAE), and and a Scottish Funding Council supported project, Strengthening the Regional Engagement Role of Universities in Africa and Asia, working with collaborators in Iran, Iraq, the Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. .

His previously funded research has included: Scottish Higher Education Funding Council/National Health Service (Scotland) funded projects concerned with selection of students in medicine and Veterinary Science (WHAP and WHAN); EC-funded projects in the area of lifelong learning concerned with the development of audit tools for stakeholders within Learning Regions (Indicators project under the Network of Learning Regions (R3L) programme) and projects that develop related learning audits (Lilara), a sustainable network of learning regions/cities (PENR3L), the quality of Grundtwig networks (GINCO), a KA4 project developing a reservoir of best practice in Learning Regions (Eurolocal), a Grundtwig project on Quality in Learning Regions (R3L+), a KA1 project concerned with tertiary lifelong learning in mid-life (THEMP) and a DG EAC funded project on Innovation in Higher Education; and a major ESRC TLRP project on the Social and Organisation Mediation of University Learning (SOMUL). He has also been a member of the team managing the EC funded Tempus Project on Lifelong Learning in Palestine. He has also recently completed the co-ordination of a study of universities and regional engagement (PURE) in 19 regions around the world, and is co-convenor of a collaborative group within the Universitas 21 group on Research Universities and their Regions (RUR).

He has also completed research on the decline in adult participation in HE for the Department for Education and Skills in the UK, and co-ordinated a similar project for the Scottish Executive and conducted studies of the effectiveness of widening access policy and practice for the Scottish Executive and for Universities UK, and studies on the Supply and Demand for FE in Scotland, and an international review of short cycle HE.

Supervision

Professor Osborne supervises the following doctoral students:

Abdulkadir Adamu: A Study of the Challenges Facing Open and Distance Education and Stakeholders’ Perceptions on the Quality of ODE Programme in Nigeria
Rodolfo Farlan: Intensive care medicine’s resident-as-teacher workshops' impact on resident’s perception of their teaching skills
Archie Fulton: Participating in a drug and alcohol education at university as a trigger for transformative change
Samir Halliru: Examining the Extent to which Skills Acquisition Training Develops Young Adults Lifelong Learning Attributes in Nigeria
Colin Mack: Residential Segregation and Educational Outcomes
Michael Sofianos: Entrepreneurial Education – Evaluation of current teaching methods, research on the attributes that motivate individuals to became entrepreneurs and investigation of the connections between these.

His recent doctoral students have been:

Peter Barton: My early attempts at CPR: Reviewing how novice clinical practitioners make sense of their first experiences of undertaking Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Gail Goulet: The Transformative Learning of Assessment through Service Learning in HE
Keneilwe Molosi: The Impact of the Remote Area Development Programme (RADP) on the Socio-Economic Development of the San: the case of the Gantsi and Maun Areas.
Chris McAllister: Learning to be lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered in Scotland: the power of older adults’ voices for reinterpreting adult and Lifelong Learning theory, research and practice
Grace Poulter: Does constructed learner identity reflect the reality of older adult learners currently engaged in higher degree programmes?
Mpoki Mwaikokesya: Undergraduate students’ Development of Lifelong Learning Attributes in Tanzania
Douglas Sutherland: The transition of adult students to higher education: communities, practice and participation

Teaching

He teaches on the following programmes:

BA in Community Development - Lifelong Learning and Social Change

MSc in Teaching Adults and MSc in Adult and Continuing Education - International Issues in Adult Education, Curriculum Development in Adult Education. He also convenes the Research dissertation for these programmes.

He has been teaching in 2016/17 within the new International Masters in Adult Education for Social Change funded through the Erasmus Mundus programme, and the new online Masters in Education.

Additional information

Consulting and advice

He has advised the EC in relation to the development of the new integrated lifelong learning programme, and the German government in the development of higher continuing education. For the EC he has been a consultant in the following in recent years:

Evaluation of the Jean Monnet Programme within the Interim Evaluation of the whole of the Lifelong Learning Programne
International evaluation of MOOC models (FutureLearn, OpenHPI and Leuphana) and of international campuses (Nottingham’s Ningbo and Malaysia campuses) as part of an overview of Innovation in HE.
Development of a pan-European framework for the competences of adult educators.

For UNESCO he has been a member of its Expert Group on the development of the International Platform for Learning Cities, which was launched in collaboration with the Chinese Ministry of Education in October 2013 in Beijing. The expert group advised on the Key Features of Learning Cities, which has been developed as an international benchmark. He was a keynote speaker at the event in Beijing

He has carried out a number of consultancies for agencies including the Council of Europe, Universities UK, the Higher Education Academy, and Learndirect Scotland . He has been an adviser and evaluator of programmes at a number of universities around the world, and a keynote speaker at many international events. Recently this has included the following:

He was the only invited speaker from the UK at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning’s 60^th anniversary celebrations in Hamburg in 2012.
During 2012 and 2013 he was an invited speaker at a number of major events in Asia. This has included at the Global HR Forum in Seoul in a session sponsored by the Korean National Institute for Lifelong Learning, the UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities in Beijing and two preliminary international consultative meetings prior to its launch in Hangzhou (China) and Jeju (Korea), and the Lifelong Learning Planet Forum In Gyeonggi Do (Korea).
He was a keynote at the City of Cork Learning Cities Festival in September 2013 alongside Irish Minister, Sean Sherlock.
He was a plenary speaker at the Global Universities Network for Innovation, World Congress in Barcelona in June 2013
He made a series of presentations at Consultations on Community Engagement and Social Responsibility in Higher Education in West Bengal, Delhi & Punjab in India at the invitation of the British Council, Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) and the UNESCO Chair on Community-based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education in March 2014.
In April and May 2014 he made a number presentations in Australia as keynote speaker at Learning City events in Frankston, Canberra and Townsville at the invitation of the Australian Learning Communities Network.
He was a keynote speaker at the biennial ASEM Lifelong Learning Hub conference in Bali in March 2015 and at the annual conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society conference in Sofia in June 2015.
He was a speaker in March 2016 at Asia-Europe Meeting Rectors conference in Prague on the student friendly curriculum.
He organised the 13th PASCAL International conference in Glasgow in June 2016 on Learning Cities 2040.
He was a keynote speaker at an ASEM Lifelong Learning Hub conference in Boracay, Philippines in May 2017 on lifelong learning and the sustainable development goals.
He was a keynote speaker at the National Association for Enabling Educators of Australia conference in November 2017 on topic of lifelong learning education policies.

He is a reviewer of major grant proposals for the ESRC. At an international level, he is a reviewer for the SSHRC (Canada), including of their Research Centre initiatives and most recently he has been a reviewer of R&D Units for the European Science Foundation.

Academic and professional body membership

He was Secretary of the Universities Association for Continuing Education in Scotland for 4 years. He to serves as the university representative on the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL), its Scottish counterpart (SUALL) and the West of Scotland Wider Access Programme. He is a member of the Executive of the British Association of International and Comparative Education and the Forum for Access and Continuing Education.

He has served on the Advisory Group of the Open University in Scotland.

Editorial Board

He is editor of the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, and has been the editor of a recent issues of the European Journal of Education that focused on widening participation to education and the professional competences of adult education professionals, and of the International Review of Education on the theme of Learning Cities. He is a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Adult Education and Revista de Educación a Distancia.

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Number of items: 174.

2018

Borkowska, K. and Osborne, M. (2018) Locating the fourth helix: rethinking the role of civil society in developing smart learning cities. International Review of Education, (doi:10.1007/s11159-018-9723-0) (Early Online Publication)

Osborne, M. (2018) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 24(1), pp. 3-4. (doi:10.1177/1477971418774088)

Lido, C. , Reid, K. and Osborne, M. (2018) Big Data, Lifelong Learning and Learning Cities: Promoting City-Discourse on Social Inequalities in Learning. Other. Pascal International Observatory.

Lido, C. , Osborne, M. , Livingston, M., Sila-Nowicka, K. and Thakuriah, P. (2018) 'Big Data' techniques to improve learning access and citizen engagement for adults in urban environments. In: Scott, L., Watson, C. and Wu, A.T. (eds.) Quality of Life in Adult Learning. Series: Adult learning in professional, organizational, and community settings. Information Age Publishing, Inc.: Charlotte, NC. (In Press)

2017

Osborne, M. (2017) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 23(2), pp. 141-142. (doi:10.1177/1477971417740219)

Osborne, M. and Borkowska, K. (2017) A European lens upon adult and lifelong learning in Asia. Asia Pacific Education Review, 18(2), pp. 269-280. (doi:10.1007/s12564-017-9479-4)

Osborne, M. (2017) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 23(1), pp. 3-4. (doi:10.1177/1477971417708930)

Cheng, M., Kitigawa, F. and Osborne, M. (2017) The evolution of internationalisation strategy: a case study of the University of Nottingham in China. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 8(3), (doi:10.1504/IJKBD.2017.10007519)

Osborne, M. (2017) Foreword. In: Preece, J., University Community Engagement and Lifelong Learning: The Porous University. Palgrave Macmillan: London, vii-x. ISBN 9783319561622 (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-56163-9)

2016

Houston, M. , Krüger, K., Molas, A., Osborne, M. and Jiménez, L. (2016) Cooperation in work-oriented learning in higher education. PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences, 2(1), pp. 685-705. (doi:10.20319/pijss.2016.s21.685705)

Osborne, M. (2016) Access to higher education. In: Côté, J. E. and Furlong, A. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education. Routledge, pp. 119-130. ISBN 9781138778122

Osborne, M. (2016) 2016: A new dawn for adult education. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 22(1), pp. 3-5. (doi:10.1177/1477971416629592)

Benneworth, P. and Osborne, M. (2016) Institutional approaches to supporting university entrepreneurship education: fitting entrepreneurship within university institutional architectures. Journal of the European Higher Education Area, 2-2016, pp. 1-26.

Lido, C. , Osborne, M. , Livingston, M., Thakuriah, P. and Sila-Nowicka, K. (2016) Older learning engagement in the modern city. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 35(5), pp. 490-508. (doi:10.1080/02601370.2016.1224037)

Osborne, M. , Laitinen, L. and Stenvall, J. (2016) Complex regional innovation networks and HEI engagement the case of Chicago. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 7(2), (doi:10.1504/IJKBD.2016.076462)

Osborne, M. and Lido, C. (2016) Big Data Techniques to Improve Learning Access and Citizen Engagement for Adults in Urban Environments. In: International Conference of Taipei Learning City, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 2016,

2015

Osborne, M. (2015) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 21(2), pp. 1-2.

Houston, M. , Osborne, M. and Rimmer, R. (2015) Private schooling and entry to medicine: a case study using matched samples and causal mediation analysis. BMC Medical Education, 15, 136. (doi:10.1186/s12909-015-0415-1)

Osborne, M. (2015) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 21(1), pp. 1-2. (doi:10.7227/JACE.21.1.1)

Carlot, C., Filloque, J.-M., Osborne, M. and Welsh, P. (Eds.) (2015) The Role of Higher Education in Regional and Community Development and in the Time of Economic Crisis. NIACE: Leicester. ISBN 9781862018907

Benneworth, P. and Osborne, M. (2015) Understanding Universities and Entrepreneurship Education: Towards a Comprehensive Future Research Agenda. Series: CR&DALL working papers series. CR&DALL: St. Andrews Building, Glasgow. ISBN 9780852619469

Bystrova, T.Y., Larionova, V.A., Osborne, M. and Platonov, A.M. (2015) Introduction of open E-learning system as a factor of regional development. Èkonomika Regiona = Economy of Region, pp. 226-237. (doi:10.17059/2015-4-18)

Cheng, M., Kitagawa, F., Osborne, M. and Duke, C. (2015) Internationalisation as University Business Model Innovation: A Case Study of the University of Nottingham. In: CHER 2015: 28th Annual conference of Consortium of Higher Education Researcher, Lisbon, Portugal, 7-9 Sept 2015,

Krüger, K., Duch, N., Parellada, M., Osborne, M. , Mariani, M. and Jiménez, L. (2015) Social efficiency of tertiary lifelong: first insights from a European research project. In: Yang, J., Schneller, C. and Roche, S. (eds.) The Role of Higher Education in Promoting Lifelong Learning. Series: UIL Series on Lifelong Learning Policies and Strategies (3). UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning: Hamburg, pp. 60-87. ISBN 9789282011942

Osborne, M. , Rimmer, R. and Houston, M. (2015) Adult access to higher education: an international overview. In: Yang, J., Schneller, C. and Roche, S. (eds.) The Role of Higher Education in Promoting Lifelong Learning. Series: UIL Series on Lifelong Learning Policies and Strategies (3). UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning: Hamburg, pp. 17-39. ISBN 9789282011942

Osborne, M. and Lido, C. (2015) Lifelong learning and big data. In: Gartenschlaeger, U. and Hirsch, E. (eds.) Adult Education in an Interconnected World: Cooperation in Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development. Series: International perspectives in adult education (71). DVV International: Bonn, pp. 116-125. ISBN 9783942755238

2014

Mwaikokesya, M. J.D., Osborne, M. and Houston, M. (2014) Mapping lifelong learning attributes in the context of higher education institutions. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 20(2), pp. 21-36. (doi:10.7227/JACE.20.2.3)

Osborne, M. (2014) Learning cities 2020. Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 4(3),

Krüger, K., Parellada Laur, M., Osborne, M. , Houston, M. , Molas, A. and Jiménez, L. (2014) The relevance of university adult education for labour market policies. Revista Internacional de Organizaciones, 12, pp. 45-69.

Osborne, M. (2014) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 20(1), pp. 1-2. (doi:10.7227/JACE.20.1.1)

Benneworth, P. and Osborne, M. (2014) Knowledge, engagement and higher education in Europe. In: Escrigas, C., Granados, J., Hall, B.L. and Tandon, R. (eds.) Higher Education in the World 5 Knowledge, Engagement and Higher Education: Contributing to Social Change. Series: GUNI Series on the Social Commitment of Universities. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 204-217. ISBN 9780230535565

Osborne, M. , Duke, C., Kitigawa, F. and Cheng, M. (2014) The internationalisation strategy of the University of Nottingham (UK) and the establishment of campuses in Asia. In: Study on Innovation in Higher Education: Annexes. Publications Office of the European Union: Luxembourg, pp. 2-22. ISBN 9789279350825

Osborne, M. and Mayes, T. (2014) EU–originated MOOCs, with focus on multi- and single-institution platforms. In: Study on Innovation in Higher Education: Annexes. Publications Office of the European Union: Luxembourg, pp. 149-201. ISBN 9789279350825

Hamilton, R., Osborne, M. and Tibbitt, J. (2014) Profiling regional engagement in higher education: challenges and opportunities. In: Hinzen, H. and Knoll, J.H. (eds.) Lifelong Learning and Governance: From Programming to Action-Selected Experiences from Asia and Europe. DVV International: Vientiane, pp. 107-138.

Jordan, L., Longworth, N. and Osborne, M. (2014) The rise and fall and rise again of learning cities. In: Zarifis, G.K. and Gravani, M. (eds.) Challenging the ‘European Area of Lifelong Learning’: A Critical Response. Series: Lifelong learning book series (19). Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 273-284. ISBN 9789400772984 (doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7299-1)

Kearns, P. and Osborne, M. (2014) El programa de intercambios internacionales de PASCAL: hacia una visión de las ciudades de aprendizaje en 2020. Decisio, 39, pp. 39-44.

Krüger, K. et al. (2014) Social Effectiveness of Tertiary Education for Adults in Mid-life. Project Report. Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo, Barcelona.

Osborne, M. (2014) PASCAL learning city networks. Education Permanente, 2014(3), pp. 14-15.

Osborne, M. (2014) Why lifelong learning and why learning cities? Pedagogy, 86(7), pp. 1067-1077.

2013

Kearns, P., Neylon, T., Lane, Y. and Osborne, M. (2013) The learning festival: pathway to sustainable learning cities? Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, pp. 90-99.

Osborne, M. , Kearns, P. and Yang, J. (2013) Learning cities: developing inclusive, prosperous and sustainable urban communities. International Review of Education, 59(4), pp. 409-423. (doi:10.1007/s11159-013-9384-y)

Osborne, M. (2013) Access and retention. In: Bryce, T.G.K., Humes, W.M., Gillies, D. and Kennedy, A. (eds.) Scottish Education (4th Edition). Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 316-326. ISBN 9780748645824

Duke, C., Osborne, M. and Wilson, B. (2013) A New Imperative: Regions and Higher Education in Difficult Times. Series: Universities and lifelong learning. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719088308

Hamilton, R., Osborne, M. and Tibbitt, J. (2013) Profiling regional engagement and lifelong learning in higher education: closing the engagement gap. Bildung und Erziehung, 66(4), pp. 437-452.

Houston, M. and Osborne, M. (2013) Tertiary Higher Education for People in Mid-life (THEMP) National Report of Case Studies UK: Scotland. THEMP Discussion Paper 7.6. Project Report. Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo, Barcelona.

Houston, M. and Osborne, M. (2013) Teaching and Learning in University Lifelong Learning for People in Mid-Life: THEMP Discussion Paper 6.1. Project Report. Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo, Barcelona.

Krüger, K., Parellada, M., Alvarez, M., Houston, M. and Osborne, M. (2013) Core Dimensions of Social Effectiveness in University Adult Education. Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo: Barcelona.

Osborne, M. (2013) Challenges for adult access in Europe. In: Klinger, C. and Murray, N. (eds.) Aspirations, Access and Attainment: International Perspectives on Widening Participation. Routledge: London, UK, pp. 82-96. ISBN 9780415828789

2012

Eckert, T., Preisinger-Kleine, R., Fartusnic, C., Houston, M. , Juceviciene, P., Dillon, B., Nemeth, B., Kleisz, T., Ceseviciute, I., Thinesse-Demel, J., Osborne, M. and Wallin, E. (2012) Quality in Developing Learning Cities and Regions: A Guide for Practitioners and Stakeholders. Ludwig Maximilian University: Munich, Germany. ISBN 9783000373336

Houston, M. , Lumsden, M.A. and Osborne, M. (2012) The Working in Health Access Programme (WHAP): impact on school leaving exam results and applications to Medicine.

Osborne, M. and Houston, M. (2012) United Kingdom – Universities and lifelong learning in the UK – adults as losers, but who are the winners? In: Slowey, M. and Schuetze, H. (eds.) Global Perspectives on HE and Lifelong Learners. Routledge. ISBN 9780415675079

Osborne, M. (2012) Mapping the UK Landscape of Tertiary Lifelong Learning. THEMP Discussion Paper 4.8. Working Paper. Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo, Barcelona.

Preece, J., Ntseane, P.G., Modise, O.M. and Osborne, M. (2012) Engagement in African Universities: Perspectives, Prospects and Challenges. NIACE: Leicester. ISBN 9781862015999

2011

Osborne, M. (2011) Jean Monnet KA1: 'Excellence centres and chairs'. In: Interim Evaluation of the Lifelong Learning Programme (2007-2013). UNSPECIFIED, pp. 100-111.

Houston, M. , McCune, V. and Osborne, M. (2011) Flexible learning and its contribution to widening participation: a synthesis of research. Project Report. Higher Education Academy.

Houston, M. and Osborne, M. (2011) Effective partnerships in the development of learning city/regions at both macro and micro levels: a case study approach. In: FACE 2011 Annual Conference: Lifelong Learning and Community Development, Glasgow, UK, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2011,

Osborne, M. (2011) Country report on the action plan on adult learning: UK. Other. GHK / Research voor Beleid.

Osborne, M. (2011) Regional Networks in a Transnational Context. [Keynote]. In: International Conference on Professional Network Management, Potsdam, Germany, Nov 24 2011 - Nov 25 2011,

2010

Osborne, M. and Houston, M. (2010) Cultural and Creative Industries in the PURE Project. In: 4th Annual Conference of the University Network of the European Capitals of Culture, Pécs, Hungary, 14-15th October 2010,

Longworth, N. and Osborne, M. (2010) Six ages towards a learning region — a retrospective. European Journal of Education, 45(3), pp. 368-401.

Longworth, N. and Osborne, M. (Eds.) (2010) Perspectives on Learning Cities and Regions: Policies, Practice and Participation. NIACE: Leicester. ISBN 9781862014480

Osborne, M. and Longworth, N. (2010) Introduction. In: Longworth, N. and Osborne, M. (eds.) Perspectives on Learning Cities and Regions: Policies, Practice and Participation. NIACE: Leicester. ISBN 9781862014480

Brennan, J., Edmunds, R., Houston, M. , Jary, D., Lebeau, Y., Osborne, M. and Richardson, J. (2010) Improving What Is Learned At University: An Exploration Of The Social And Organisational Diversity Of University Education. Series: Improving learning TLRP. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415480154

Buiskool, B.J., Broek, S.D., van Lakerveld, J.A., Zarifis, G.K. and Osborne, M. (2010) Key competences for adult learning professionals: contribution to the development of a reference framework of key competences for adult learning professionals. Project Report. Research voor Beleid, Zoetermeer, Netherlands.

Longworth, N. and Osborne, M. (2010) Introduction: Advances in learning city/region development. In: Longworth, N. and Osborne, M. (eds.) Perspectives on Learning Cities and Regions: Policy, Practice and Participation. NIACE: Leicester, 1 - 28. ISBN 9781862014480

Longworth, N. and Osborne, M. (2010) PENR3L and EUROlocal - facilitators of European regional economic, social and environmental development. In: Longworth, N. and Osborne, M. (eds.) Perspectives on Learning Cities and Regions: Policy, Practice and Participation. NIACE: Leicester, 229 - 251. ISBN 978 1 86201 448 0

2009

Brennan, J., Osborne, M. and Shah, T. (2009) What is learned at university? The social and organisational mediation of university learning (The SOMUL project): Key findings. Project Report. The Higher Education Academy, York.

Osborne, M. (2009) Adult learning professionals in Europe. European Journal of Education, 44(2), pp. 143-144. (doi:10.1111/j.1465-3435.2009.01388.x)

Osborne, M. and Sankey, K. (2009) Non-vocational adult education and its professionals in the United Kingdom. European Journal of Education, 44(2), pp. 271-289. (doi:10.1111/j.1465-3435.2009.01382.x)

Brennan, J., Jary, D., Richardson, J. and Osborne, M. (2009) The social and organisational mediation of university learning. In: Brennan, J., Edmunds, R., Houston, M., Jary, D., Lebeau, Y., Osborne, M. and Richardson, J. (eds.) Improving What is Learned at University: An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education. Routledge: London, pp. 17-30. ISBN 9780415480154

Brennan, J., Osborne, M. and Jary, D. (2009) The universities: cultures, organisations and reputations. In: Brennan, J., Edmunds, R., Houston, M., Jary, D., Lebeau, Y., Osborne, M. and Richardson, J. (eds.) Improving What is Learned at University: An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education. Routledge: London, pp. 33-54. ISBN 9780415480154

Jary, D. and Osborne, M. (2009) Implications for institutions, academic staff and students. In: Brennan, J., Edmunds, R., Houston, M., Jary, D., Lebeau, Y., Osborne, M. and Richardson, J. (eds.) Improving What is Learned at University: An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education. Routledge: London, pp. 171-192. ISBN 9780415480154

Maclachlan, K. and Osborne, M. (2009) Lifelong learning, development, knowledge and identity. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 39(5), pp. 575-583.

Osborne, M. (2009) Universities and their regional engagement. In: FACE Conference 2009, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, 1-3 July 2009,

Osborne, M. , Brennan, J. and Edmunds, R. (2009) Diversities and commonalities in the student experience. In: Brennan, J., Edmunds, R., Houston, M., Jary, D., Lebeau, Y., Osborne, M. and Richardson, J. (eds.) Improving What is Learned at University: An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education. Routledge: London, pp. 157-168. ISBN 9780415480154

Osborne, M. and Thomas, E. (2009) La formazione continua universitaria in Europa: sistemi a confronto. In: Piazza, R. (ed.) Lifelong learning ed educazione democratica in Europa. Guerini Scientifica: Milan, pp. 117-146. ISBN 9788881072859

2008

Lumsden, M.A., Millar, K., Osborne, M. and Remedios, R. (2008) Working in Health Access Programme (WHAP): Initial results. Medical Education, 42(4), pp. 412-419. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03007.x)

Brennan, J. and Osborne, M. (2008) Higher education's many diversities: of students, institutions and experiences; and outcomes? Research Papers in Education, 23(2), pp. 179-190. (doi:10.1080/02671520802048711)

McNair, S., Quintero-Re, L., Clarke, A., Eldred, J., Hallam, A., Lavender, P., O'Hagan, J., Pearce, R., Thomson, A., Tuckett, A., Watters, K., Osborne, M. , Tibbett, J. and Tett, L. (2008) CONFINTEA VI : United Kingdom National Report: National Report on the Development and State of the Art Adult Learning and Education (ALE). National Institute of Adult Continuing Eduation: Leicester. ISBN 9781862013810

Osborne, M. (2008) Widening participation to Higher Education in the UK. In: Hanft, A. and Knust, M. (eds.) Weiterbildung im Elfenbeinturm!? Waxmann: Muenster, pp. 39-42.

Trache, M., Schuetze, H. and Osborne, M. (2008) University continuing education: third mission or first? Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 14(1),

2007

Osborne, M. , Houston, M. and Toman, N. (Eds.) (2007) The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning: Understanding Effective Teaching and Learning in Diverse Contexts. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415424943

Doyle, L. , Houston, M. and Osborne, M. (2007) Grading: A Review of National and International Issues. Project Report. Scottish Qualifications Authority.

Morgan-Klein, B. and Osborne, M. (2007) The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415428606

Osborne, M. , Sankey, K. and Wilson, B. (2007) Social Capital, Lifelong Learning and the Management of Place: An International Perspective. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415427951

Wallace, C., McKie, J., Houston, M. and Osborne, M. (2007) Assessment: a review in practice. Discussion Paper. Scottish Qualifications Authority.

2006

Osborne, M. and McLaurin, I. (2006) A probability matching approach to further education/higher education transition in Scotland. Higher Education, 52(1), pp. 149-183. (doi:10.1007/s10734-004-7279-3)

Allen, L., Osborne, M. and Storan, J. (2006) Annex C: Literature Review. Sub-theme 1: Local and Regional Partnerships to Extend Participation in Higher Education to Socially Disadvantaged Groups. Project Report. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Field, J. and Osborne, M. (2006) Researching social capital in Europe: towards a toolkit for measurement. In: Duke, C., Doyle, L. and Wilson, B. (eds.) Making Knowledge Work: Sustaining Learning Communities and Regions. NIACE: Leicester, pp. 54-66. ISBN 9781862012462

Houston, M. and Osborne, M. (2006) What is learned at university: the social and organisational mediation of university learning. In: TLRP Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK, Nov 2006,

Osborne, M. and Young, D. (2006) Flexibility and Widening Participation. Discussion Paper. Higher Education Academy.

Sankey, K. and Osborne, M. (2006) Lifeling learning reaching regions where other learning doesn't reach. In: Edwards, R., Gallacher, J. and Whittaker, S. (eds.) Learning Outside the Academy: International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning. Routledge: London, pp. 202-223. ISBN 9780415365857

2005

Brennan, J. and Osborne, M. (2005) The organisational mediation of university learning. Working Paper. Higher Education Academy and Open University/CHERI, York.

Duke, C., Osborne, M. and Wilson, B. (2005) Rebalancing the Social and Economic: Learning Partnership and Place. National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Leicester. ISBN 9781862012707

Houston, M. and Osborne, M. (2005) Applications and acceptances. In: From the Margins to the Mainstream Conference: Universities UK, Standing Conference of Principals, London, UK, Mar 2005,

McGavock, K. and Osborne, M. (2005) Making a difference? A review of widening access initiatives to medicine in the UK. Journal of Access Policy and Practice, 3(1), pp. 3-20.

Osborne, M. (2005) Constructive alignment of learning outcomes to assessment methods: an overview. In: Enhancing Practice: Reflections on Assessment Vol. 1. Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education: Mansfield, UK, pp. 114-147. ISBN 1844822656

Osborne, M. (2005) Introduction. In: Gallacher, J. and Osborne, M. (eds.) A Contested Landscape: International Perspectives on Diversity in Mass Higher Education. National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Leicester, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781862012332

Osborne, M. and Brennan, J. (2005) The social and organisational mediation of university teaching: a focus on organisational mediation. In: 3rd International CRLL Conference, Stirling, UK, 24-26 June 2005,

Osborne, M. and Gallacher, J. (2005) The role of short-cycle higher education in the changing landscape of higher education: issues for consideration. In: Gallacher, J. and Osborne, M. (eds.) A Contested Landscape: International Perspectives on Diversity in Mass Higher Education. National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Leicester, pp. 195-211. ISBN 9781862012332

Thomas, L., May, H., Harrop, H., Houston, M. , Knox, H., Lee, M.F., Osborne, M. , Pudner, H. and Trotman, C. (2005) From the Margins to the Mainstream: Embedding Widening Participation in Higher Education. Project Report. Universities UK/Standing Conference of Principals (SCOP).

2004

Pouget, M. and Osborne, M. (2004) Accreditation or validation of prior experiential learning: knowledge and savoirs in France—a different perspective? Studies in Continuing Education, 26(1), pp. 45-66. (doi:10.1080/158037042000199452)

Crossan, B. and Osborne, M. (2004) Questions of access and participation: some contributions from qualitative research. In: Osborne, M., Gallagher, J. and Crossan, B. (eds.) Researching Widening Access to Higher and Further Education: Issues and Approaches in International Research. RoutledgeFalmer: London, pp. 141-149. ISBN 9780415322362

Murphy, M., Morgan-Klein, B., Osborne, M. and Gallacher, J. (2004) Widening Participation in Higher Education: Report to the Scottish Executive. Project Report. Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning.

Osborne, M. (2004) Adults in British Higher Education. In: Mark, R., Pouget, M. and Thomas, E. (eds.) Adults in Higher Education : Learning From Experience in the New Europe. Peter Lang: Oxford. ISBN 9783039101825

Osborne, M. (2004) Work process knowledge and lifelong learning policies. In: Fischer, M., Boreham, N. and Nyhan, B. (eds.) European Perspectives on Learning at Work : The Acquisition of Work Process Knowledge. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities: Luxembourg, pp. 366-386. ISBN 9789289602730

Osborne, M. and Bell, D. (2004) Research on Approaches to Public Funding and Development of Tertiary Education within Selected OECD Nations. Project Report. Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning.

Osborne, M. and Bell, D. (2004) A Review of the Financing of Post-Compulsory Education in Selected OECD Countries. Project Report. Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, UK.

Osborne, M. and Gallacher, J. (2004) An international perspective on researching widening access. In: Osborne, M., Gallacher, J. and Crossan, B. (eds.) Researching Widening Access to Higher and Further Education: Issues and Approaches in International Research. RoutledgeFalmer: London, pp. 3-16. ISBN 9780415322362

Osborne, M. , Gallacher, J. and Crossan, B. (2004) Researching Widening Access to Lifelong Learning: Issues and Approaches in International Research. RoutledgeFalmer: London. ISBN 9780415322362

Osborne, M. , Marks, A. and Turner, E. (2004) Becoming a mature student: how adult applicants weigh the advantages and disadvantages of higher education. Higher Education, 48(3), pp. 291-315. (doi:10.1023/B:HIGH.0000035541.40952.ab)

Osborne, M. and Oberski, I. (2004) University continuing education: the role of communications and information technology. Journal of European Industrial Training, 28(5), pp. 414-428. (doi:10.1108/03090590410533099)

Osborne, M. , Sandberg, H. and Tuomi, O. (2004) A comparison of developments in university continuing education in Finland, the UK and Sweden. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 23(2), pp. 137-158. (doi:10.1080/0260137042000184183)

2003

Osborne, M. , Stephen, C. and Lumsden, M. (2003) Widening access to medical school - a prescription for changing the socio-economic base of applicants and entrants. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 5(1), pp. 10-17.

Osborne, M. (2003) Editorial. European Journal of Education, 38(1), pp. 1-3. (doi:10.1111/1467-3435.t01-1-00124)

Osborne, M. (2003) Increasing or widening participation in higher education? - a European overview. European Journal of Education, 38(1), pp. 5-24. (doi:10.1111/1467-3435.00125)

Osborne, M. and Edwards, R. (2003) Inquiring into lifelong learning. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 8(2), pp. 165-178.

Marks, A., Turner, E. and Osborne, M. (2003) 'Not for the likes of me': the overlapping effect of social class and gender factors in the decision made by adults not to participate in higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 27(4), pp. 347-364. (doi:10.1080/0309877032000128064)

Osborne, M. (2003) Policy and practice in widening participation: a six country comparative study of access as flexibility. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 22(1), pp. 43-58. (doi:10.1080/02601370304826)

Osborne, M. (2003) University continuing education - international understandings. In: Osborne, M. and Edward, T. (eds.) Lifelong Learning in a Changing Continent: Continuing Education in the Universities of Europe. National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Leicester, pp. 15-30. ISBN 9781862011571

Osborne, M. (2003) University continuing education in the United Kingdom. In: Osborne, M. and Edward, T. (eds.) Lifelong Learning in a Changing Continent: Continuing Education in the Universities of Europe. National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Leicester, pp. 463-485. ISBN 9781862011571

Osborne, M. (2003) The university and the lifelong learning region. In: 26th EUCEN Symposium, Aveiro, Portugal, 6-9 Nov 2003,

Osborne, M. and Thomas, E. (2003) Lifelong Learning in a Changing Continent: Continuing Education in the Universities of Europe. National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Leicester. ISBN 9781862011571

Osborne, M. and Thomas, E. (2003) An overview of university continuing education in Europe. In: Osborne, M. and Thomas, E. (eds.) Lifelong Learning in a Changing Continent: Continuing Education in the Universities of Europe. National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Leicester, pp. 486-528. ISBN 9781862011571

2002

Brink, B., Munro, J. and Osborne, M. (2002) Online learning technology in an SME work-based setting. Journal of Educational Technology and Society, 5(2), pp. 81-86.

Davies, P., Osborne, M. and Williams, J. (2002) For Me or Not for Me? - That is the Question: A Study of Mature Students' Decision Making. Project Report. Department for Education and Employment.

Osborne, M. (2002) Never mind the width, feel the quality. In: Roebuck, D. (ed.) Envisioning Practice - Implementing Change. Australian Academic Press: Brisbane, Qld., Australia. ISBN 9781875378449

Osborne, M. (2002) Research and lifelong learning. In: 2nd International Lifelong Learning Conference, Queensland, Australia, 16-19 June 2002,

Osborne, M. (2002) What works? In: Teacher, Facilitator, Mentor or Manager? New Roles and Competencies for Academics in a Lifelong Learning University. Proceedings of the 23rd EUCEN Conference, Pecs. Hungary, 15-18 May 2002. EUCEN Institute of Adult Education, University of Pécs,, pp. 53-64. ISBN 9789636418854

Osborne, M. , Brink, B., Cloonan, M., Davies, P., Marks, A., Turner, E. and Williams, J. (2002) Mature Student Recruitment to HE (Scotland). Project Report. Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning.

Osborne, M. , Cloonan, M. and Oberski, I. (2002) European partnerships: exhilaration or exasperation? In: Field, J. (ed.) Promoting European Dimensions in Lifelong Learning. National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Leicester, pp. 54-65. ISBN 9781862010482

Osborne, M. , Gallacher, J. and Murphy, M. (2002) A research review of FE/HE links - a report to the Scottish Executive Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department. Project Report. Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning/Scottish Executive.

Osborne, M. and Marks, A. (2002) Mature student recruitment to HE. Broadcast: Journal of the Scottish Further Education Unit, 55, pp. 50-53.

Osborne, M. and Turner, E. (2002) Private training providers in Scotland. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 54(2), pp. 267-294. (doi:10.1080/13636820200200198)

2001

Davies, P., Osborne, M. and Williams, J. (2001) Mature Student Recruitment to HE. Project Report. Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning.

Osborne, M. , Brink, B., Cloonan, M., Davies, P., Marks, A., Turner, E. and Williams, J. (2001) For Me or Not for Me in Scotland? A Report of Mature Student Participation in Higher Education. Project Report. Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning.

Osborne, M. and Davies, P. (2001) Mature student recruitment to higher education - a comparison of Scotland in relation to the UK as a whole. In: Researching Widening Access. International Perspectives Conference Proceedings, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, 29 June-1 July 2001. Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, pp. 331-339. ISBN 9781903661147

2000

Oberski, I., Palomar, A., Noya, C., Ruggiero, E., Herrera, F., Korhonen, K., Osborne, M. and Davies, P. (2000) Evaluating online work-based education for managers in SMEs: some initial observations. Industry and Higher Education, 14(3), pp. 200-203. (doi:10.5367/000000000101295057)

Osborne, M. , Cloonan, M., Morgan-Klein, B. and Loots, C. (2000) Mix and match? Further and higher education links in post-devolution Scotland. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 19(3), pp. 236-252. (doi:10.1080/026013700293287)

Young, J., Gallacher, J., Leahy, J., Osborne, M. and Raab, G. (2000) Review of the Supply of and Demand for Further Education in Scotland. Project Report. Scottish Further Education Funding Council, Edinburgh.

1999

Cloonan, M., Hearinger, A., Matarazzo, B., Murphy, M. and Osborne, M. (1999) The use of cost-benefit analysis in funding continuing education: steering the fifth wheel? International Journal of Lifelong Education, 18(6), pp. 492-504. (doi:10.1080/026013799293540)

Oberski, I., Osborne, M. , Noya, C., Korhonen, K. and Herrera, F. (1999) European learning in smaller companies (ELISC) (online training in SMEs). Continuing Professional Development, 2(4), pp. 122-125.

Osborne, M. , Gallacher, J. and Cloonan, M. (1999) Researching Lifelong Learning: An Introductory Briefing. Project Report. Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning.

1998

Loots, C., Osborne, M. and Seagreaves, L. (1998) Learning at work: work-based access to higher education. Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 46(1), pp. 16-30.

1997

Dockrell, R., Hettich, P. and Osborne, M. (1997) A study of contrasting models of transferable skills in Higher Education: the UK and the US. Continuing Higher Education Review, 61, pp. 12-27.

Osborne, M. (1997) Participants in a Work-based Learning Programme: Small and Medium Enterprises and their Employees. In: Good Thinking: Good Practice – Research Perspectives on Learning and Work, 5th Annual International Conference on Post- compulsory Education and Training, Griffith University. Brisbane, Queensland, 26-28 November 1997,

Osborne, M. , Leopold, J. and Ferrie, A. (1997) Does access work? The relative performance of access students at a Scottish university. Higher Education, 33(2), pp. 155-176. (doi:10.1023/A:1002927816754)

1996

Seagraves, L., Osborne, M. and Kemp, I. (1996) Are academic outcomes of higher education provision relevant to and deliverable in the workplace setting? Higher Education, 32(2), pp. 157-176. (doi:10.1007/BF00138394)

Gallacher, J., Osborne, M. and Postle, G. (1996) Increasing and widening access to higher education: a comparative study of policy and provision in Scotland and Australia. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 15(6), pp. 418-437. (doi:10.1080/0260137960150603)

Leopold, J.W. and Osborne, M. (1996) The performance of former in-house access students at a Scottish university. Journal of Access Studies, 11(1), pp. 120-131.

Osborne, M. , Neal, P. and Seagraves, L. (1996) Universities and their working communities: some Scottish perspectives. Scottish Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 3(1), pp. 63-84.

Osborne, M.J. , Dockrell, R. and Reeve, F. (1996) Portfolio based access to degree studies. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 20(2), pp. 81-96.

Seagraves, L., Osborne, M. , Neal, P., Dockrell, R., Hartshorn, C. and Boyd, A. (1996) Learning in Smaller Companies: Final Report. Project Report. Educational Policy and Development, University of Stirling, UK.

1995

Osborne, M.J. , Seagraves, L., Dockrell, R. and Neal, P. (1995) LISC Interim Report. Project Report. University of Stirling / Employment Department, Stirling, UK.

Seagraves, L. and Osborne, M. (1995) Learner motivation in part-time higher education including work-based learning. In: Towards a Learning Workforce Conference, Lancaster, UK, 12-13 September 1995,

Seagraves, L., Osborne, M. , Neal, P., Dockrell, R., Hartshorn, C. and Boyd, A. (1995) Learning in Smaller Companies: Interim Report. Project Report. Educational Policy and Development, University of Stirling, UK.

Skinner, A. and Osborne, M. (1995) UACE(S) response to SHEFC Circular 53/94, Continuing Education. Scottish Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2(1), pp. 93-100.

1994

Osborne, M. and Sankey, K. (1994) A climate change for environmental education and training in the professions. Scottish Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 1(1), pp. 5-20.

1993

Cope, P. and Osborne, M. (1993) Access: instrumentalism in action? A case study of access to secondary teacher training. Journal of Access Studies, 8(2), pp. 246-254.

Osborne, M.J. , Yule, W., Dockrell, R. and Carmichael, J. (1993) Accreditation of In–house Courses and Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning – Some Case Studies. Stirling University / Glasgow Caledonian University: Stirling / Glasgow.

1992

Johnstone, R., Cope, P. and Osborne, M. (1992) Recruiting mature adults into concurrent initial teacher-training: the Stirling Access to Teaching scheme. Scottish Journal of Adult Education, 1(1), pp. 44-51.

1991

Osborne, M.J. and Sankey, K. (Eds.) (1991) Towards Environmental Competence in Scotland. World Wide Fund for Nature (UK) / Scottish Enterprise / Scottish Environmental Education Council / University of Stirling: Godalming, UK. ISBN 0905574117

Gallacher, J. and Osborne, M. (1991) Different national models of access provision – a comparison between Scotland and England. Journal of Access Studies, 6(2), pp. 147-164.

Osborne, M.J. and Sankey, K. (1991) Towards environmental competence: phase 3, professional bodies. In: Osborne, M.J. and Sankey, K. (eds.) Towards Environmental Competence in Scotland. World Wide Fund for Nature (UK) / Scottish Enterprise / Scottish Environmental Education Council / University of Stirling: Godalming, UK. ISBN 0905574117

1989

Osborne, M. and Woodrow, M. (1989) Access to Mathematics, Science and Technology. Further Education Unit: London, UK. ISBN 9781853381188

1988

Osborne, M. (1988) Access courses in mathematics, science and technology: current and planned provision. Journal of Access Studies, 3(1), pp. 64-74.

Osborne, M. (1988) Access courses in mathematics, science and technology: selected case studies. Journal of Access Studies, 3(2), pp. 48-63.

Woodrow, M. and Osborne, M. (1988) The Access Course in Food Studies. Series: Access to higher education, case study, 6. The Royal Society: London.

1986

Banthorpe, D. V., Branch, S. A., Njar, V. C.O., Osborne, M. G. and Watson, D. G. (1986) Ability of plant callus cultures to synthesize and accumulate lower terpenoids. Phytochemistry, 25(3), pp. 629-636. (doi:10.1016/0031-9422(86)88013-x)

1984

Banthorpe, D.V. and Osborne, M.J. (1984) Terpene epoxidases and epoxide hydratases from cultures of Jasminum officinale. Phytochemistry, 23(4), pp. 905-907. (doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)85057-8)

1983

Osborne, M. (1983) The apartheid war: drug, torture, biological tests. Africa Now, pp. 41-43.

Banthorpe, D.V., Barrow, S.E. and Osborne, M.J. (1983) Seasonally-dependent oxidative metabolism of terpenes in Tanacetum vulgare. Zeitschrift für Pflanzenphysiologie, 111(2), pp. 175-177.

Osborne, M. (1983) Kuba: Chemischer Kreig gegen eine Revolution. In: Dhunjibhoy, R. and Hübener, K.-L. (eds.) Unterwanderung: Die Destabilisierungsstrategie der USA von Nicaragua bis Angola. Peter Hammer Verlag: Wuppertal, Germany. ISBN 9783872942234

1976

Cook, J.A., Osborne, M.J. and Rice, D.A. (1976) Complexes of the phenylmethane nitronato and propane-2-nitronato anions with divalent metal ions. Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, 38(4), pp. 711-713. (doi:10.1016/0022-1902(76)80342-9)

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Articles

Borkowska, K. and Osborne, M. (2018) Locating the fourth helix: rethinking the role of civil society in developing smart learning cities. International Review of Education, (doi:10.1007/s11159-018-9723-0) (Early Online Publication)

Osborne, M. (2018) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 24(1), pp. 3-4. (doi:10.1177/1477971418774088)

Osborne, M. (2017) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 23(2), pp. 141-142. (doi:10.1177/1477971417740219)

Osborne, M. and Borkowska, K. (2017) A European lens upon adult and lifelong learning in Asia. Asia Pacific Education Review, 18(2), pp. 269-280. (doi:10.1007/s12564-017-9479-4)

Osborne, M. (2017) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 23(1), pp. 3-4. (doi:10.1177/1477971417708930)

Cheng, M., Kitigawa, F. and Osborne, M. (2017) The evolution of internationalisation strategy: a case study of the University of Nottingham in China. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 8(3), (doi:10.1504/IJKBD.2017.10007519)

Houston, M. , Krüger, K., Molas, A., Osborne, M. and Jiménez, L. (2016) Cooperation in work-oriented learning in higher education. PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences, 2(1), pp. 685-705. (doi:10.20319/pijss.2016.s21.685705)

Osborne, M. (2016) 2016: A new dawn for adult education. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 22(1), pp. 3-5. (doi:10.1177/1477971416629592)

Benneworth, P. and Osborne, M. (2016) Institutional approaches to supporting university entrepreneurship education: fitting entrepreneurship within university institutional architectures. Journal of the European Higher Education Area, 2-2016, pp. 1-26.

Lido, C. , Osborne, M. , Livingston, M., Thakuriah, P. and Sila-Nowicka, K. (2016) Older learning engagement in the modern city. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 35(5), pp. 490-508. (doi:10.1080/02601370.2016.1224037)

Osborne, M. , Laitinen, L. and Stenvall, J. (2016) Complex regional innovation networks and HEI engagement the case of Chicago. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 7(2), (doi:10.1504/IJKBD.2016.076462)

Osborne, M. (2015) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 21(2), pp. 1-2.

Houston, M. , Osborne, M. and Rimmer, R. (2015) Private schooling and entry to medicine: a case study using matched samples and causal mediation analysis. BMC Medical Education, 15, 136. (doi:10.1186/s12909-015-0415-1)

Osborne, M. (2015) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 21(1), pp. 1-2. (doi:10.7227/JACE.21.1.1)

Bystrova, T.Y., Larionova, V.A., Osborne, M. and Platonov, A.M. (2015) Introduction of open E-learning system as a factor of regional development. Èkonomika Regiona = Economy of Region, pp. 226-237. (doi:10.17059/2015-4-18)

Mwaikokesya, M. J.D., Osborne, M. and Houston, M. (2014) Mapping lifelong learning attributes in the context of higher education institutions. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 20(2), pp. 21-36. (doi:10.7227/JACE.20.2.3)

Osborne, M. (2014) Learning cities 2020. Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 4(3),

Krüger, K., Parellada Laur, M., Osborne, M. , Houston, M. , Molas, A. and Jiménez, L. (2014) The relevance of university adult education for labour market policies. Revista Internacional de Organizaciones, 12, pp. 45-69.

Osborne, M. (2014) Editorial. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 20(1), pp. 1-2. (doi:10.7227/JACE.20.1.1)

Kearns, P. and Osborne, M. (2014) El programa de intercambios internacionales de PASCAL: hacia una visión de las ciudades de aprendizaje en 2020. Decisio, 39, pp. 39-44.

Osborne, M. (2014) PASCAL learning city networks. Education Permanente, 2014(3), pp. 14-15.

Osborne, M. (2014) Why lifelong learning and why learning cities? Pedagogy, 86(7), pp. 1067-1077.

Kearns, P., Neylon, T., Lane, Y. and Osborne, M. (2013) The learning festival: pathway to sustainable learning cities? Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, pp. 90-99.

Osborne, M. , Kearns, P. and Yang, J. (2013) Learning cities: developing inclusive, prosperous and sustainable urban communities. International Review of Education, 59(4), pp. 409-423. (doi:10.1007/s11159-013-9384-y)

Hamilton, R., Osborne, M. and Tibbitt, J. (2013) Profiling regional engagement and lifelong learning in higher education: closing the engagement gap. Bildung und Erziehung, 66(4), pp. 437-452.

Houston, M. , Lumsden, M.A. and Osborne, M. (2012) The Working in Health Access Programme (WHAP): impact on school leaving exam results and applications to Medicine.

Longworth, N. and Osborne, M. (2010) Six ages towards a learning region — a retrospective. European Journal of Education, 45(3), pp. 368-401.

Osborne, M. (2009) Adult learning professionals in Europe. European Journal of Education, 44(2), pp. 143-144. (doi:10.1111/j.1465-3435.2009.01388.x)

Osborne, M. and Sankey, K. (2009) Non-vocational adult education and its professionals in the United Kingdom. European Journal of Education, 44(2), pp. 271-289. (doi:10.1111/j.1465-3435.2009.01382.x)

Maclachlan, K. and Osborne, M. (2009) Lifelong learning, development, knowledge and identity. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 39(5), pp. 575-583.

Lumsden, M.A., Millar, K., Osborne, M. and Remedios, R. (2008) Working in Health Access Programme (WHAP): Initial results. Medical Education, 42(4), pp. 412-419. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03007.x)

Brennan, J. and Osborne, M. (2008) Higher education's many diversities: of students, institutions and experiences; and outcomes? Research Papers in Education, 23(2), pp. 179-190. (doi:10.1080/02671520802048711)

Trache, M., Schuetze, H. and Osborne, M. (2008) University continuing education: third mission or first? Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 14(1),

Osborne, M. and McLaurin, I. (2006) A probability matching approach to further education/higher education transition in Scotland. Higher Education, 52(1), pp. 149-183. (doi:10.1007/s10734-004-7279-3)

McGavock, K. and Osborne, M. (2005) Making a difference? A review of widening access initiatives to medicine in the UK. Journal of Access Policy and Practice, 3(1), pp. 3-20.

Pouget, M. and Osborne, M. (2004) Accreditation or validation of prior experiential learning: knowledge and savoirs in France—a different perspective? Studies in Continuing Education, 26(1), pp. 45-66. (doi:10.1080/158037042000199452)

Osborne, M. , Marks, A. and Turner, E. (2004) Becoming a mature student: how adult applicants weigh the advantages and disadvantages of higher education. Higher Education, 48(3), pp. 291-315. (doi:10.1023/B:HIGH.0000035541.40952.ab)

Osborne, M. and Oberski, I. (2004) University continuing education: the role of communications and information technology. Journal of European Industrial Training, 28(5), pp. 414-428. (doi:10.1108/03090590410533099)

Osborne, M. , Sandberg, H. and Tuomi, O. (2004) A comparison of developments in university continuing education in Finland, the UK and Sweden. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 23(2), pp. 137-158. (doi:10.1080/0260137042000184183)

Osborne, M. , Stephen, C. and Lumsden, M. (2003) Widening access to medical school - a prescription for changing the socio-economic base of applicants and entrants. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 5(1), pp. 10-17.

Osborne, M. (2003) Editorial. European Journal of Education, 38(1), pp. 1-3. (doi:10.1111/1467-3435.t01-1-00124)

Osborne, M. (2003) Increasing or widening participation in higher education? - a European overview. European Journal of Education, 38(1), pp. 5-24. (doi:10.1111/1467-3435.00125)

Osborne, M. and Edwards, R. (2003) Inquiring into lifelong learning. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 8(2), pp. 165-178.

Marks, A., Turner, E. and Osborne, M. (2003) 'Not for the likes of me': the overlapping effect of social class and gender factors in the decision made by adults not to participate in higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 27(4), pp. 347-364. (doi:10.1080/0309877032000128064)

Osborne, M. (2003) Policy and practice in widening participation: a six country comparative study of access as flexibility. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 22(1), pp. 43-58. (doi:10.1080/02601370304826)

Brink, B., Munro, J. and Osborne, M. (2002) Online learning technology in an SME work-based setting. Journal of Educational Technology and Society, 5(2), pp. 81-86.

Osborne, M. and Marks, A. (2002) Mature student recruitment to HE. Broadcast: Journal of the Scottish Further Education Unit, 55, pp. 50-53.

Osborne, M. and Turner, E. (2002) Private training providers in Scotland. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 54(2), pp. 267-294. (doi:10.1080/13636820200200198)

Oberski, I., Palomar, A., Noya, C., Ruggiero, E., Herrera, F., Korhonen, K., Osborne, M. and Davies, P. (2000) Evaluating online work-based education for managers in SMEs: some initial observations. Industry and Higher Education, 14(3), pp. 200-203. (doi:10.5367/000000000101295057)

Osborne, M. , Cloonan, M., Morgan-Klein, B. and Loots, C. (2000) Mix and match? Further and higher education links in post-devolution Scotland. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 19(3), pp. 236-252. (doi:10.1080/026013700293287)

Cloonan, M., Hearinger, A., Matarazzo, B., Murphy, M. and Osborne, M. (1999) The use of cost-benefit analysis in funding continuing education: steering the fifth wheel? International Journal of Lifelong Education, 18(6), pp. 492-504. (doi:10.1080/026013799293540)

Oberski, I., Osborne, M. , Noya, C., Korhonen, K. and Herrera, F. (1999) European learning in smaller companies (ELISC) (online training in SMEs). Continuing Professional Development, 2(4), pp. 122-125.

Loots, C., Osborne, M. and Seagreaves, L. (1998) Learning at work: work-based access to higher education. Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 46(1), pp. 16-30.

Dockrell, R., Hettich, P. and Osborne, M. (1997) A study of contrasting models of transferable skills in Higher Education: the UK and the US. Continuing Higher Education Review, 61, pp. 12-27.

Osborne, M. , Leopold, J. and Ferrie, A. (1997) Does access work? The relative performance of access students at a Scottish university. Higher Education, 33(2), pp. 155-176. (doi:10.1023/A:1002927816754)

Seagraves, L., Osborne, M. and Kemp, I. (1996) Are academic outcomes of higher education provision relevant to and deliverable in the workplace setting? Higher Education, 32(2), pp. 157-176. (doi:10.1007/BF00138394)

Gallacher, J., Osborne, M. and Postle, G. (1996) Increasing and widening access to higher education: a comparative study of policy and provision in Scotland and Australia. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 15(6), pp. 418-437. (doi:10.1080/0260137960150603)

Leopold, J.W. and Osborne, M. (1996) The performance of former in-house access students at a Scottish university. Journal of Access Studies, 11(1), pp. 120-131.

Osborne, M. , Neal, P. and Seagraves, L. (1996) Universities and their working communities: some Scottish perspectives. Scottish Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 3(1), pp. 63-84.

Osborne, M.J. , Dockrell, R. and Reeve, F. (1996) Portfolio based access to degree studies. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 20(2), pp. 81-96.

Skinner, A. and Osborne, M. (1995) UACE(S) response to SHEFC Circular 53/94, Continuing Education. Scottish Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2(1), pp. 93-100.

Osborne, M. and Sankey, K. (1994) A climate change for environmental education and training in the professions. Scottish Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 1(1), pp. 5-20.

Cope, P. and Osborne, M. (1993) Access: instrumentalism in action? A case study of access to secondary teacher training. Journal of Access Studies, 8(2), pp. 246-254.

Johnstone, R., Cope, P. and Osborne, M. (1992) Recruiting mature adults into concurrent initial teacher-training: the Stirling Access to Teaching scheme. Scottish Journal of Adult Education, 1(1), pp. 44-51.

Gallacher, J. and Osborne, M. (1991) Different national models of access provision – a comparison between Scotland and England. Journal of Access Studies, 6(2), pp. 147-164.

Osborne, M. (1988) Access courses in mathematics, science and technology: current and planned provision. Journal of Access Studies, 3(1), pp. 64-74.

Osborne, M. (1988) Access courses in mathematics, science and technology: selected case studies. Journal of Access Studies, 3(2), pp. 48-63.

Banthorpe, D. V., Branch, S. A., Njar, V. C.O., Osborne, M. G. and Watson, D. G. (1986) Ability of plant callus cultures to synthesize and accumulate lower terpenoids. Phytochemistry, 25(3), pp. 629-636. (doi:10.1016/0031-9422(86)88013-x)

Banthorpe, D.V. and Osborne, M.J. (1984) Terpene epoxidases and epoxide hydratases from cultures of Jasminum officinale. Phytochemistry, 23(4), pp. 905-907. (doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)85057-8)

Osborne, M. (1983) The apartheid war: drug, torture, biological tests. Africa Now, pp. 41-43.

Banthorpe, D.V., Barrow, S.E. and Osborne, M.J. (1983) Seasonally-dependent oxidative metabolism of terpenes in Tanacetum vulgare. Zeitschrift für Pflanzenphysiologie, 111(2), pp. 175-177.

Cook, J.A., Osborne, M.J. and Rice, D.A. (1976) Complexes of the phenylmethane nitronato and propane-2-nitronato anions with divalent metal ions. Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, 38(4), pp. 711-713. (doi:10.1016/0022-1902(76)80342-9)

Books

Benneworth, P. and Osborne, M. (2015) Understanding Universities and Entrepreneurship Education: Towards a Comprehensive Future Research Agenda. Series: CR&DALL working papers series. CR&DALL: St. Andrews Building, Glasgow. ISBN 9780852619469

Duke, C., Osborne, M. and Wilson, B. (2013) A New Imperative: Regions and Higher Education in Difficult Times. Series: Universities and lifelong learning. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719088308

Krüger, K., Parellada, M., Alvarez, M., Houston, M. and Osborne, M. (2013) Core Dimensions of Social Effectiveness in University Adult Education. Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo: Barcelona.

Eckert, T., Preisinger-Kleine, R., Fartusnic, C., Houston, M. , Juceviciene, P., Dillon, B., Nemeth, B., Kleisz, T., Ceseviciute, I., Thinesse-Demel, J., Osborne, M. and Wallin, E. (2012) Quality in Developing Learning Cities and Regions: A Guide for Practitioners and Stakeholders. Ludwig Maximilian University: Munich, Germany. ISBN 9783000373336

Preece, J., Ntseane, P.G., Modise, O.M. and Osborne, M. (2012) Engagement in African Universities: Perspectives, Prospects and Challenges. NIACE: Leicester. ISBN 9781862015999

Brennan, J., Edmunds, R., Houston, M. , Jary, D., Lebeau, Y., Osborne, M. and Richardson, J. (2010) Improving What Is Learned At University: An Exploration Of The Social And Organisational Diversity Of University Education. Series: Improving learning TLRP. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415480154

McNair, S., Quintero-Re, L., Clarke, A., Eldred, J., Hallam, A., Lavender, P., O'Hagan, J., Pearce, R., Thomson, A., Tuckett, A., Watters, K., Osborne, M. , Tibbett, J. and Tett, L. (2008) CONFINTEA VI : United Kingdom National Report: National Report on the Development and State of the Art Adult Learning and Education (ALE). National Institute of Adult Continuing Eduation: Leicester. ISBN 9781862013810

Morgan-Klein, B. and Osborne, M. (2007) The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415428606

Osborne, M. , Sankey, K. and Wilson, B. (2007) Social Capital, Lifelong Learning and the Management of Place: An International Perspective. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415427951

Duke, C., Osborne, M. and Wilson, B. (2005) Rebalancing the Social and Economic: Learning Partnership and Place. National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Leicester. ISBN 9781862012707

Osborne, M. , Gallacher, J. and Crossan, B. (2004) Researching Widening Access to Lifelong Learning: Issues and Approaches in International Research. RoutledgeFalmer: London. ISBN 9780415322362

Osborne, M. and Thomas, E. (2003) Lifelong Learning in a Changing Continent: Continuing Education in the Universities of Europe. National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Leicester. ISBN 9781862011571

Osborne, M.J. , Yule, W., Dockrell, R. and Carmichael, J. (1993) Accreditation of In–house Courses and Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning – Some Case Studies. Stirling University / Glasgow Caledonian University: Stirling / Glasgow.

Osborne, M. and Woodrow, M. (1989) Access to Mathematics, Science and Technology. Further Education Unit: London, UK. ISBN 9781853381188

Woodrow, M. and Osborne, M. (1988) The Access Course in Food Studies. Series: Access to higher education, case study, 6. The Royal Society: London.

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