Professor Thorne has a first class honours degree in Pure Mathematics from the University of London and a PhD from Birmingham. He has published widely both in print and on radio and television. He spent the first half of his academic career in the universities of London and Wales. He then became a Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Sunderland and then moved to Napier University as Vice Principal. He has served on a number of government committees and is currently a member of the board of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation. He is also a board member of the Broadway Theatre Trust, Newham College of Further Education, and is chair of East London E-Learning, the largest UfI-hub in London.
Gavin Poynter is Head, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies. He published 'Restructuring in the ServiceIndustries', Mansell 2000 and has written extensively on work, society and technological change. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick since 1995. He has given keynote speeches and papers on work, society and technological change in Turkey, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Holland and elsewhere. Recently he has written on the relationship between education and work contributing to edited books on the McDonaldisation of Higher Education (Routledge 2002) and the Falmer/Routledge series on Key Debates in Education.
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