School of Education Research Staff Profile

Ada Adeghe

Developmental work and research activity

Ada is currently Chair of the Association of Teacher Education (ATEE) Research and Development Cluster for Leadership and Management Development. She is an active member of ATEE and is part of the organising committee of the 2007 ATEE annual conference hosted by the University of Wolverhampton. Her other interests centre on achieving quality and excellence in literacy, numeracy, ESOL and embedded Skills For Life programmes as well as approaches to quality assurance in the further education sector.

Key and recent publications and materials developed

• The Raising Standards Series – A contextual Guide to Support Success in Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL provision (Prison) – DFES 2003.
• The TAMBIS example: Assuring Equity and Diversity thruogh assessment and accomodation of pre-service teachers' learning and teaching styles, paper presented at the 32nd ATEE conference, University of Wolverhampton, Telford, UK, August.
• 2005, Leading and Managing Change and Quality Improvements in Skills For Life: An evaluation of the SFL Leadership and Management Programme, Paper presented at the School of Education Annual Conference, May, 2005.
• 2006, Cooperation, Collaboration and the Trials and Tribulations of Tripartite relationships – A case study of the Skills For Life Leadership and Management Programme, Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) conference in Slovenia October, 2006.
• 2007, Professional Challenges in Curricular Development for a European Leadership Programme, paper presented at the International Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) Slovenia, January, 2007.
• Adeghe A (2004) Contextual guide to support success in literacy, numeracy and ESOL provision (Prisons), DFES.

Recent conference papers

• 2008, Working with Local Authorities to progress master’s level CPD, paper presented at the ATEE conference in Brussels, August, 2008
• 2007, Equality and Diversity in Teacher Education, Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) conference in Telford, UK, August 2007.
• 2007, Professional Challenges in Curricular Development for a European Leadership Programme, paper presented at the International Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) Slovenia, January, 2007
• 2006, Cooperation, Collaboration and the Trials and Tribulations of Tripartite relationships – A case study of the Skills For Life Leadership and Management Programme, Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) conference in Slovenia October, 2006
• 2005, Leading and Managing Change and Quality Improvements in Skills For Life: Evaluation of leadership and management programme.  Paper presented at ATEE Conference in Amsterdam, October 2005.

Recent development and research projects

• CfBT Coaching and mentoring Project for Skills For Life managers (2007).
• SERCO/NCSL Postgraduate Certificate leadership and management modules for Children Centre managers (NPQCL) (2008).