BA Sociology; MA Education; PhD Education; Certificate in Community and Youth Work

Profile

Marion is Senior Lecturer in Education and Director of Continuing Professional Development in the School of Education. Early in 2009, she returned from three years’ leave of absence in Aotearoa New Zealand where she was Senior Lecturer in Adult and Community Education at the University of Canterbury and Manager of the University’s Adult and Community Education Teaching and Research Team.

She is a community worker, teacher and academic with over 25 years’ experience of developing, managing and researching adult and community education practice and policy both in the U.K. and overseas. From 1996-2006, she was responsible for setting up and managing Birmingham Reachout, a community-based widening participation initiative with adults, and for embedding the lessons of this work and research within the further and higher education sectors. Her training portfolio covers a spectrum from management training, to group work and interactive skills. Her teaching work ranges from one-to-one work with adult returners, formal lecturing and PhD supervision. She is currently editor of the Journal of Adult learning Aotearoa New Zealand and Editorial board member of: Learning and Teaching: The International journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences and Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning. She is also an associate Member of the Centre for International Educational Research (CIER)

Research Interests

Her research interests and activities include:

• Adult and Community Education
• Lifelong learning
• Informal and non-formal education
• Post-compulsory education
• Widening access to higher education
• Teaching and learning in tertiary and higher education
• Participatory research methods and approaches
• Gender and Adult Education

Teaching and administration responsibilities

PhD supervision; Lecturer in Contemporary Issues in Education (BA Childcare and Education); Tutor for Professional Studies (Ad.Cert, B.Phil, PgCeret, PG.Dip, Med); Director of Studies, Continuing Professional Development.

Publications (selection):

Hockings, C., Cooke, S. and Bowl, M. (2010) Learning and Teaching in Two Universities within the context of increasing student diversity: complexity, contradictions and challenges in David, M. (ed) Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education Abingdon: Routledge

Hockings, C., Cooke, S., Yamashita, H., McGinty, S. and Bowl, M. (2009) 'I’m neither entertaining nor charismatic…’ negotiating university teacher identity within diverse student groups Teaching in higher Education 14 (5) 483-494

Bowl, M. and Walters, M. (2008) Exploring Men’s Perceptions of Learning: A pilot study  New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning Vol 36 No. 2

Bowl, M. Communities of Practice, Communities of Compliance or Communities of Resistance? Regional Networks in the Adult and Community Education Sector in Aotearoa New Zealand Invited paper Community Development Journal International Symposium: London, UK, September 2009

Bowl, M. (2008) ‘Working for Change in Higher Education: the possibilities for collaborative research’ Critical Studies in Education Vol. 49 No. 2: 185-198

Bowl, M., Cooke, S. and Hockings, C. (2008) ‘Home or Away? Issues of Choice, living arrangements and what it means to be a student’, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning  Vol. 10 No. 1: 26-35

Bowl, M. and Tully, L. (2008) Researching with communities: challenges in Adult and Community Education in Aotearoa New Zealand International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2.

Bowl, M., Cooke, S. and Hockings, C. (2008) Researching across boundaries and borders: the challenges for research Educational Action Research Vol.16 No. 1: 85-95.