Editors

About the Editor

Edited by Michael Kompf (michael.kompf@brocku.ca - Brock University, Canada) & Pamela M Denicolo (p.m.denicolo@reading.ac.uk - University of Reading, UK)

Michael Kompf is Professor of Education at Brock University, Canada. Interests include developmental issues for adult learners and teachers; personal construct psychology; global policies and practices in higher education; and philosophies of inquiry. Recent writing and presentations have included exploring the nature of university corporatism, higher education success rates, individual and the social implications of distance learning, and Aboriginal education. A member of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (isatt.org) since 1985, Michael has served four terms as Chair in addition to four terms as editor of the ISATT Newsletter. Michael is a member of several professional associations and serves as associate editor and reviewer on several journals. He is co-editor of six volumes of work in adult education and the various areas of teacher thinking. He has consulted, presented papers and given lectures throughout North America, the EU and Australasia.

Pam Denicolo is the Director of the Graduate School at the University of Reading and an active member of the University Committee for Postgraduate Research Studies. Her passion for supporting and developing graduate students is also demonstrated through her contributions to the UK Council for Graduate Education Executive Committee, the Society for Research into Higher Education Postgraduate Network, and other national and international committees and working groups which, for example, review and evaluate research generic skills training and the concordance of UK universities with the European Code and Charter, produce a framework of skills for researchers over their full career and consider the changing nature of the doctorate. As a psychologist working particularly in the fields of Professional and Postgraduate Education, she has supervised more than 50 doctoral students to successful completion, examined many more, and developed and led Research Methods Programmes for social scientists in her current and previous universities. She was honoured to be appointed an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society for her contributions to the education of pharmacists. Her lifelong interest in student learning, and hence teachers’ teaching, led her to become an active member of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) and serving member of the Executive Committee for many years. Her research has been oriented by a commitment to understanding the way participants in learning processes construe their roles, situations and activities, through the use and development of Personal Construct Theory approaches and methods.