Stephen Powell's Profile Description

I am a researcher and project-manager of large-scale action research initiatives and have a passionate belief in the power of learning as a means to freedom and empowerment for individuals, groups and society at large.

For the past 6 years I have worked for Ultralab, an Information Communication Technology (ICT) research outfit based at Anglia Ruskin University (APU) in Chelmsford, Essex. In this role, I work with multidisciplinary teams that develop innovative pedagogical and technological approaches to learning, teaching, and assessment.  This work is the vehicle for my research output which takes the form of formal papers as well as my professional weblog stephenp.net

I spent a large part of 2004 consulting with CORE - Education helping the team setting up the organisation and working on projects including the Wananga o Aotearoa (Maori tertiary institution) development and validation of an undergraduate mixed mode delivery, early childhood, online degree.

In 2004 I completed my Masters in Education and have just stated my PhD studies with Professor Bob Fryer. This will be an inquiry into how the Internet is impacting upon society looking at issues of democratisation and control, identity and reputation, and equality of opportunity for life chances at an individual, national, and international level.

Papers

For publication by SEEDA August 2005 Developing Engagement in online community: lessons for HE Stephen Powell, Ian Terrell and Pete Bradshaw

January 2004 - Building a community of practice: technological and social implications for a distributed team.  Chapter 16 of Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice. Edited by Paul Hildreth and Chris Kimble published by Idea Group Publishing. Pete Bradshaw, Stephen Powell and Ian Terrell

September 2003 Leading a Geography Department. In Department Learning to Lead in the Secondary School: Becoming an Effective Head of Department.  Edited Mark Brundrett, Ian Terrell

June 2003  Online Communities for School Leaders.  A presentation given to the VCI Conference, London. Pete Bradshaw and Stephen Powell...

Dec 2002  Virtual communities and professional learning across a distributed, remote membership Pete Bradshaw, Alison Gee, Stephen Powell, presented to Virtual Communities Conference, University of Navarra, Barcelona

September 2002  Online Communities - Vehicles For Professional Learning?
The paper, presented to BERA. Pete Bradshaw, Stephen Powell, Ian Terrell