Jane Cullen

I have worked in Higher Education since 2000, first as a Research Associate/Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, then at the Von Hugel Institute, St Edmunds College, Cambridge, and at the Open University since June 2006.  

I head the Masters in Education and Masters in Childhood and Youth programme at the OU which currently attracts over one thousand students, and I specialise in leadership and management on both the M.Ed and the EdD. I have been associated for the past seven years with the work of the Teacher Education in sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) programme www.tessafrica.net  working on projects across Africa with colleagues from universities and NGOs in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Republic of Sudan, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zambia. I served as Director of TESSA 2012-2014 and since then I have worked as  a key adviser on a major DfID-funded teacher education project in Ghana, on projects in South America including an FCO-funded project working with the Ministry of Education in Peru and on research projects in Bangladesh and India.

Before moving into HE I was an English teacher, head of department, senior teacher and then head teacher in various schools, beginning as a young teacher in the Phillipines then moving to Sri Lanka, Uruguay, Namibia and finally to Egypt.

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