David Powell

I am the director of the Consortium and HUDCETT. I joined the University in January 2009 and took up my current position in September 2014. Alongside my Consortium work, I lead the activities of HUDCETT and this involves me working with a range of providers nationally. For instance, I am currently a member of the Education and Training Foundation’s Initial Teacher Education Working Party. I began my teaching career by teaching as a part-time lecturer of travel and tourism at Stafford College in 1986, progressed into full-time lecturing work and then middle management and in 2001 became a Head of Faculty. I subsequently moved into staff development, then teacher education in 2005.

I completed a BA (Hons) Leisure, Recreation and the Environment degree at Leeds Polytechnic and then a M.Soc.Sci in Tourism and Leisure Services at the University of Birmingham in 1989. I went to study for a Certificate in Education (FE In-Service) at Huddersfield Polytechnic. I was awarded an EdD for a thesis entitled “It’s not as straightforward as it sounds”: an action research study of a team of further education-based teacher educators and their use of modelling during a period of de-regulation and austerity.

• Research about FE-based teacher educators 
• Trainee teachers and FE-based teacher education