I am an experienced learning & skills consultant and have been Director of Seedbed Consulting Ltd since 2004. I work mainly with adults covering writing guides, newsletters and websites, training, train the trainer, workforce development, developing materials and conducting research & evaluations. I am always looking for new project-based or contract opportunities. I have extensive experience working in the public, private and third sectors, and have held senior positions in adult/FE colleges. I have a Master of Research degree specialising in adult and lifelong learning, improving access, and formative and summative project evaluations. I have a lot of experience in staff development and training (including quality improvement), improving HR and training plans/activities, developing writing skills for business, writing strategic and business plans and managing educational and partnership projects. I have also written guides and delivered training programmes around older workers, redundancy, literacy, numeracy, dealing with clients without English as a first language, Equality & Diversity, writing bids for funding, adapting training for different types of staff and developing partnerships. Specialties: Qualitative educational and social research including case studies and focus groupsFormative and summative evaluations for projectsResearch presentation and report writingWriting for specific purposes such as guides, publicity, reports, presentations and websitesWriting training programmes and handbooks along with delivering associated training. Staff development such as train the trainer, effective writing and embedding English and maths into training, policy and procedures Project management Partnership development and workingBid writing for publicly funded education projectsTeacher training and developmentWriting policies, business cases and other formal documentation Quality Improvement