RESEARCH PROFILE

Alan joined IER in 1996 and from 2002 - 2009 was Associate Director of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) with responsibility for workplace learning and professional learning.

Alan's current research, which has a strong international orientation, focuses mainly upon changing occupational identities, continuing vocational training, skill formation, organisational performance, networks and supporting knowledge sharing and development and learning in professional communities of practice. He was involved in the development of the National Guidance Research Forum (NGRF), a knowledge-sharing site that has considerable material on research and practice in careers guidance and research on lifelong learning and work-related learning.

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BACKGROUND

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Learning for career and labour market transitions - individual biographies, with Professor Jenny M Bimrose - Institute for Employment Research, Dr Barbara A Merrill - Centre for Lifelong Learning, Funded by: CEDEFOP, Project Start Date: 02/01/2012 Project End Date: 28/06/2013
• Review of Apprenticeship Research, with Dr Lynn M Gambin, Mr. Terence Hogarth - Institute for Employment Research, Funded by: Department for Business Innovation and Skills, Project Start Date: 06/02/2012 Project End Date: 05/04/2013 [details]
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Brown, A.(2011) 'Problems with National Qualifications Frameworks in practice: The English case' Austrian Open Access Journal of Adult Education (Issue 14, article 04), 1 - 12 (1993-6818) [article]
• Brown, A. and Bimrose, J.(2011) 'Changing patterns of guidance, learning and careers of older workers in Europe' in Working and ageing: Guidance and counselling for mature learners, 166 - 187, Editors: CEDEFOP (978-92-896-0851-0), Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union
• Bimrose, J. and Brown, A.(2010) 'Older workers' transitions in work-related learning, careers and identities' in Transitions and learning through the lifecourse, Editors: Ecclestone, K., Biesta, G. and Highes, M. (9780415481731), London ; New York: Routledge
• Nieuwenhuis, L. and Brown, A.(2009) 'In search for flexible expertise as a source for firm viability' in VET boost: towards a theory of professional competencies: essays in honor of Frank Achtenhagen, 409 - 422, Editors: Oser, F., Renold, U., John, E. G., Winther, E. and Weber, S. (9789087907372), Netherlands: Sense Publishers
• Brown, A.(2009) 'Role of technology in enhancing learning' in Distance education and e-learning in transition: learning innovation, technology and social challenges, 373 - 384, Editors: Szücs, A., Tait, A., Vidal, M. and Bernath, U. (9781848211322), London: ISTE & Wiley

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