She was seconded to the Inner London Education Authority as an advisor on education for unemployed adults for three years. Prior to that she organised, co-ordinated tutored and taught a range of courses facilitating access to higher education in partnership with local universities. It was during this work that she became fascinated by the way class, race and gender impact on experience of life and education and how the ability to learn and grow involves all aspects of a person so cannot be treated as a simple acquisition of skills and/or knowledge.

Recent Projects

For the last three years, as a member of the Continuous Learning in Organisations Ltd team, delivers the MA in Leadership for Health and Social Care at TVU

Co-ordinated the Post Graduate Diploma in Group Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths College , University of London 2002-3 ; currently tutors, supervises clinical practice and conducts an ongoing experiential group with students.

Consults to groups of staff including an on-going staff support group for a multidisciplinary team treating patients with mental health problems in an acute day hospital in an NHS trust hospital, and a support and supervision group of service managers in a Local MIND centre. These groups are significant in helping staff working with challenging people to understand and contain difficult emotions and lessen the risk of burnout.

Facilitates a group of supervising social workers in Action Learning at two levels so they have a reflective space in which to develop their own practice and at the same time to learn the skills of AL facilitation. They are now facilitating AL sets with foster carers employed by the Looked after Children Service and using their own set for supervision. This project will be written up in the summer of 2005.

Facilitates Action Learning cross-sector sets with NHS chief executives, DOH personnel and social service directors .
Conducts an analytic psychotherapy group at a South London Counselling Centre

Publications

She has participated in research projects with Marsaili Cameron and Steve Cranfield to produce documents, both on line and printed: Embodying Leadership (2000) and Managing Change in the NHS (2001) for the NHS Executive London and NCCSDO respectively.