Tom Schuller

Professor Tom Schuller is currently director of Longview, a UK thinktank promoting the value of longitudinal and lifecourse research (see www.longviewuk.com). 

From 2008-10, led the UK NIACE Commission on Lifelong Learning, and co-authored its main report, Learning Through Life, with Dir David Watson.   Visiting Professor at Birkbeck and at the Institute of Education in London.

2003-2008,  Head of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), OECD, Paris. 

1999-2003  Dean of the Faculty of Continuing Education and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London , also co-director of the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning.

Worked previously at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Warwick, at the Institute for Community Studies and for four years at OECD in the 1970s.

Author or editor of some 15 books, and his research history covers many areas of lifelong learning, but also fields such as employee participation, social capital and the social study of time. Adviser to governments on numerous issues, especially on lifelong learning.