Amanda runs her own employment law consultancy business, EmployEase: The Employment Practice Ltd with Julie Calleux. Set up in 1994, EmployEase is based in Fife and in London. Amanda provides advice on all aspects of employment law, dealing with contentious and non-contentious issues for employers and employees. Amanda has worked extensively with small to medium sized private and not for profit organisations.
Amanda advises on conduct and performance disciplinary and dismissal procedures and guides employers through the employment law implications of business reorganisations, in particular, redundancy exercises and transfers to other businesses.
Amanda deals with day to day issues for her clients such as illness absence, family leave provisions, requests for flexible working and confidentiality issues. She also represents clients in the employment tribunals.
EmployEase blogs and tweets:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/EmployEase
Blog: http://www.employease.co.uk/blog
My name is David Hopkins. I work in the Business School, as a Learning Technologist, at Bournemouth University. All views expressed by me, online and on any website other than a Bournemouth University website, are personal are are not representative of my employer. I am passionate about the following (but not limited to): eLearning, mLeaning, Web 2.0, Game-based learning, Blogging, WordPress, Blackboard, Technology, CMALT, QR Codes, Social Media, etc.
Education Consultant [Disadvantaged schools] at New South Wales Department of Education
Director of Florizel Media.
I am Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of Reading and I was recently awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.
I am interested in technologies and how they can be used to help not hinder.
Tim Rudd has a wealth of experience managing and delivering research and development projects, innovation workshops and events in the fields of education and new technologies.
Tim was a Senior Researcher at Futurelab for over five years, working on and managing a number of innovative projects, publications and other outputs. Prior to that he was Head of Evidence and Research at the British Educational and Communications Technology Agency (Becta). He has also recently joined the Education Research Centre within the School of Education, at the Univerisity of Brighton, where he holds a Principal Researcher post.
Tim has a doctorate from the University of Bristol and gained a first class degree in Applied Social Science. He is also qualified as an Innovations Champion through the Institute of Leadership and Management.
Tim has published, presented and undertaken research in a number of areas relating to education, educational technologies for learning, and social science. Areas of specialism and related themes include:
Learner voice; pupil engagement and co-design; learning spaces; new technologies and educational transformation; new social networks and future pedagogies; innovation and creativity; action research and CPD; educational theory; personalisation; home-school-community links; the digital divide; and community participation.