Institute of Education London

Dr Natasha Kersh

• Qualifications and position:
  • Research Officer
  • MA Tutor
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Policy and Society
• Department:
  • Lifelong and Comparative Education
• Summary:
  • I completed my PhD at the Department of Educational Studies, Oxford University and joined the Institute in 2002. My research work has centred around issues of workplace learning, employability and post-compulsory training. I have worked on a number of national and international projects including EU/ESRC funded projects.
• Teaching:
  • MA Comparative Education
• Research Projects:
  • "Inclusive Modules - Moving Young People on" - The project builds on the results of the project "Approval of modules in prevocational education and training". This project was financed in the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci program from 2005 to 2007 and carried out in seven partner countries: Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, Greek, Romania, and the UK. The project developed an interactive tool that could be used by practitioners involved in the construction and development of modules in prevocational training. The new project aims to develop additional features to the product and transfer it to other contexts. Further info at www.modules-for-europe.eu/index.html
• Professional Activities:
  • Member of the International Advisory Committee of the online only refereed journal "Research in Comparative and International Education'. link to detail on this journal
• Conferences/presentations:
  • "The role of new technologies in work-related learning: the UK context", European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2008, Goteborg University, Sweden, 10 - 12 September 2008
    
    "Facilitating Learner's Motivation and Competence Development in the Workplace: The UK context", International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship Conference, Austrian Institute for Research on Vocational Training & Bertelsmann Foundation & VETNET, Vienna, Austria, 1-2 February, 2008.
    
    "Approval of modules in vocational education and training: improving the quality of modules in an international co-operation", Seventh International Conference on Researching Vocational Education and Training. Worcester College, Oxford, 6-9 July, 2007
    
    
• Personal Country Knowledge:
  • UK (VET, adult learning)
• Extra Topics:
  • English (advanced), Russian (advanced)
• Extra Topics:
  • English (advanced), Russian (advanced)
• Research Students:
  • Research Interests include vocational education and training; adult learning; workplace learning; informal learning; 14-19 education and training; comparative and international education.