Further Education: Enabling Renewal and Helping to Build Better Citizenship, Occupations and Business Communities in Wales
John Buchanan is a professor in the Discipline of Business Information Systems, Business School, University of Sydney. He has produced many scholarly and policy research publications on work and skill formation. His most recent paper, prepared jointly with colleagues from Australia, South Africa and Canada, was produced for UNESCO and concerned The future of work: what education can and cannot do.
Julie Froud is a professor in the People, Management and Organisation division in Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Her current research focuses on how a foundational economy approach to economic and social renewal can help shape policy and practice. This includes place-based local economic development and industrial policy. She is a member of the Foundational Economy Collective whose book, Foundational Economy. The Infrastructure of Everyday Life, has now been published in English, German, Italian and Portuguese.
Mark Lang is an independent academic researcher and an Honorary University Associate at Cardiff University. He has significant experience in policy development at local, regional and national levels, and has a PhD in Political Science from Cardiff University. His particular interests are place-based sustainability and social justice.
Caroline Lloyd is a professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Her research focuses on skill, work organisation and labour markets, with a particular interest in low-waged work and international comparative studies. She jointly wrote Skills in the Age of Over-Qualification: Comparing Service Sector Work in Europe and is currently researching digital technologies in the workplace.
Bruce Smith is an Honorary Research Associate, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. He has advised the Australian Government on a range of social policy issues, including education, social services and Indigenous affairs. He has a Ph D in and published on the history of Australian education.
Karel Williams is emeritus professor at the University of Manchester and a member of the foundational economy collective whose most recent book is Foundational Economy: the Infrastructure of Everyday Life. He is actively engaged in developing innovative policies which change what matters to citizens in his native Wales and beyond. Recent research reports on UK health care after Covid and on the Welsh wood economy are available on the foundational economy.com web site.
