Consultancy specialising in recovery models, co-creation and community education. We build partnerships between third sector and learning providers and conduct participant informed research and evaluation work.RecoverEd are committed to exploring new and exciting ways for community groups/participants to recover and co-create access to their education and their learning. While we work with those who have experience of mental health problems - our work stretches across community and organisational sectors.We also work with organisations in order to map and develop progression routes and pathways. RecoverEd is the only organisation in the UK, besides the Widening Access, Research and Mentoring (WARM) group who is able to deliver the WARM approach to engagement.

Through UHOVI my role is to manage curriculum delivery and development working closely with faculties within the University of South Wales. The focus for delivery is those communities within the Heads of the Valleys Regions, SE Wales who would otherwise be deemed hard to reach.

Research and Development October 2010 - present.• Supporting new innovations in learning working specifically with groups with mental health problems.• Writing new curriculum to support flexible learning and progression• Supporting access to higher levels of learning for hard to reach students.• Involved in research and evaluation of other approaches to learning• Work with local community groups developing formal and constituted learning groups. Thus placing learning control in the hands of the group members.• Developing opportunities for enhanced funding applications• Project management with experience of community development, professional development as well as research development.Project lead for the Pen-Y-Fal Archive project.• Working collaboratively with students and agencies to ensure project meets participant led ethos.• Supporting key outcome developments including developing dissemination opportunities.• Planning and supporting new developments in learning through non-traditional means –such as using archive records.• Developing flexible curriculum to meet student led needs• Working across the USW institution to build pathways into undergraduate study.Academic Consultant for the Fujian Association for Lifelong Learning, China 2013 – 2016.• Developing education opportunities within a lifelong framework for Chinese institutions• Planning and developing networking opportunities for institutions from across China• Writing and planning bespoke pathways for lifelong learning students from within ChinaVisiting Lecturer in sociology and philosophy (University of South Wales) 2006 – present• Working with colleagues to develop learning packages for community based students• Planning and delivering community informed modules• Assessment and engagement strategies ensuring that groups have access to adequate learning resources• Developing new and flexible learning/curriculum

Action research projects supporting participant engagement - in particular, working with people who have a diagnosis of mental illness.