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MAJOR PUBLICATIONS		Sally Tomlinson was Professor of Educational Research at the University of Lancaster, England, from 1984-1991; Professor of Education at the University of Wales Swansea 1990-91 and Goldsmiths Professor of Educational Policy and Management at Goldsmiths College, London University 1991-1999. From 1999 to the present, she is an Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths College and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton. She was a member of the Council of the University of Gloucestershire 2001-2009. She was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship 2009. She has taught, researched and published over the past thirty years in the areas of race ethnicity and education, educational policy, special education, and home-school relations. She has been a Trustee of the Africa Educational Trust for 20 years. She joined the Governing Council of the South Worcestershire College in 2011.
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PROFESSOR TOMLINSON'S RECENT WORK
2010
2010 "NEETS, Yobs, and Kripples: Lower attainers in a global knowledge economy" A report for the Leverhulme Trust, London
This report describes a Research Study of lower attainers/special needs students in England, Germany, USA, Malta . The research aimed to clarify what is happening to young people post-14 who are regarded as lower achievers, having learning difficulties/special educational needs in a global economy where there is a focus on higher levels of 'knowledge'. A book based on this study is in preparation.
FORTHCOMING 2012
Social inclusion and higher education (eds) Basit, T. and Tomlinson, S. Bristol. Policy Press
The key issues addressed in this edited book are the experiences of students from what has been termed ‘non-traditional backgrounds’ in institutions of higher education. Over the past thirty years there has been a considerable expansion of higher education world-wide, - in public and private universities, liberal arts colleges, community colleges and others, and a corresponding increase in numbers attending. Who has access to higher education, and aquires qualifications that on the whole still guarentee life-time higher incomes and status, has generated much debate and political intervention. While the politics of access has largely been framed in the language of social equity, encouraging the inclusion of women and men from lower socio-economic groups, ethnic minorities, those with disablities, and older mature people, there has been minimal focus on what actually happens to the students once they are in the institutions.
MARCH 2008
“Race and Education: Policy and Politics in Britain” Berkshire.Open University Press/McGraw-Hill Education ISBN13: 978 0 335 22307 7 (pb) 978 0 335 22308 4 (hb) ISBN10: 0 335 22307 9 (pb) 0 335 22308 7 (hb)
This book provides crucial information on key educational issues, events and conflicts in Britain from the 1960s to 2007, as the education system has attempted to incorporate racial and ethnic minorities, and educate young people to live in an ethnically diverse society.