The Editorial Team 2017 - 2021

The previous editors took up their posts in 2017 and each served 18 months on a rotation as Editor and Associate Editors. Notable achievements of their tenure in addition to driving forward the quality, management and strategy of the journal include JVET’s 70th Anniversary celebrations, Early Career Workshops, 2019 Conference at Keble College, JVET’s first online conference and publication of doctoral theses abstracts.

Professor Leesa Wheelahan

Professor Leesa Wheelahan is the William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research interests include tertiary education policy and the role of knowledge in curriculum. Her most recent work has critiqued the role of markets in vocational education, privatisation, competency-based training and the emergence of micro-credentials.

Professor Ann-Marie Bathmaker

Professor Ann-Marie Bathmaker is Professor of Vocational and Higher Education at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on questions of equity and inequalities in vocational, post-compulsory and higher education. Her most recent research focuses on governing practices in further education colleges, particularly in relation to questions of equality and diversity, and on social class, (in)equalities and social mobility in post-school and higher education, with research projects in England, Australia, South Africa and the island communities of the UK.

Professor Kevin Orr

Professor Kevin Orr is Professor of Work and Learning at the University of Huddersfield in the UK. His research has focussed on policy, provision and practice in the further education (FE) sector. He is interested in higher education provided in colleges and most recently he co-edited Caliban’s Dance: FE after The Tempest, which is a collection of essays that examine possible futures for FE.