John Butcher

Professor John Butcher is the Director, Access, Open and Cross-Curricular Innovation and is currently seconded to the PVC-Student office from the WELS faculty. He recently published a report for the Higher Education Policy Institute, entitled: ‘Unheard: the voices of part-time adult learners’. He has been an OU student himself, gaining an advanced diploma in Educational Management and a Masters and doctorate in Education while teaching full-time. He also tutored for 16 years in the Arts faculty.

John has six children (a fact that continues to surprise him) and now three grandchildren, he supports West Ham and used to like dancing to The Smiths.

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