Editorial Team 2022 - 2025
Professor Stephanie Matseleng Allais
Stephanie Matseleng Allais is Research Chair of Skills Development and Professor of Education at the Centre for Researching Education and Labour at Wits University. Her research is located in the sociology and political economy of education, focused on relationships between education and work. Her research focuses both on political economy of transitions from education to work and curriculum and knowledge aspects of educational preparation for work. Her books include Knowledge, curriculum, and preparation for work, published in 2018 by Brill/SENSE, with Yael Shalem, and Selling Education Out: National Qualifications Frameworks and the abandonment of Knowledge, published in 2014 by Sense. In 2010 she was a fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Before this she managed and conducted research into qualifications frameworks in 16 countries for the International Labour Organisation. She has worked in government, distance education, trade union education, teaching high school, teaching adult basic education and training, and leading a student organisation. She served on many committees by appointment of Ministers of Education in South Africa, has served as special advisor to the current Minister of Higher Education and Training, and has been involved in numerous policy processes.
Dr Jim Hordern
Jim Hordern works at the University of Bath, and previously was at Bath Spa University and IOE, London. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Derby.
His research interests are in educational knowledge and practice, and he has published widely in these and related fields.
In addition to his role at JVET, he is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Education and Work, the International Journal of Training and Development, and the Internationale Berufsbildungforschung Springer book series.
Professor Simon McGrath
Simon McGrath is Professor of Education at the University of Glasgow. He has done academic, policy and evaluation work on the relationships between VET and development for 30 years and was lead editor of the Springer Handbook on VET (2019).
His first ever journal article was in JVET. His work looks at VET across a number of forms, including informal apprentice, agricultural colleges, enterprise-based training and public and private providers. He is interested in going beyond VET-economy links, having published on VET and human development, and VET and sustainable development.