Leif Emil Hansen

Research

Reviewer for the following journals:

* RELA - European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults - www.rela.ep.liu.se

* Vocations and Learning. Studies in Vocational and Professional Education - http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/journal/12186?detailsPage=editorialBoard

Member of Roskilde University's Academic Council / Medlem af Akademisk Råd (AR), Uddannelsesudvalget (UDDU) samt Styregruppen for Uddannelsesreform

Member of the following Advisory Boards:

* VEU-Center Hovedstaden og Bornholm - www.veu-center.dk  (the Danish Ministry of Education's Centre for Continuing Education in Copenhagen)

* 'Det lærende fængsel' - www.indsigt.org (The Educative Prison - an initiative to change imprisonment into a learning period for the inmates)

*  ACTIVITIES IN DEPARTMENT
Former Head of UniTeach  (Roskilde University’s university teaching unit).
Teaching in our Masters and Basic Humanistic and Social Programmes.
Research is focussed around semi-skilled (male) workers motivation for and barriers towards participation in training and adult education.

* MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES:
ESREA (European Society for Research in the Education of Adults).

Former member of Advisory Board on training of elected representatives in BUPL (The Danish National Federation of Early Childhood Teachers and Youth Educators. www.bupl.dk.)

FOFU (Danish Association of Researchers in the Education of Adults). Chairman 1989-1994 and again 2005-2010.

Member of the Steering Committee for the Development Activities of the Danish Folk High Schools.

Former member of the editorial board for 'Højskolebladet', the Danish Folk High Schools' magazine.

Former member of the Steering Committee for the Education of the Teachers in the Danish Trade Union Congress' (LO) Internal Education System (FIU).

Former member of Debate Forum on Gender Equality, The Danish National Research and Documentation Centre on Gender Equality.

* KEY QUALIFICATIONS:
Mr. Leif Emil Hansen has worked with university, adult and further education since 1976 at the University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University, Denmark.

He has been involved in and monitoring several planning projects within the universities, local government institutions, private companies and trade unions as well as within adult education organisations.

He has carried out research projects for the Danish state authorities and the universities, for instance about adult and further education in relation to specific, especially low educated target groups and about computer learning and modern pedagogics. In this respect he has visited colleagues and institutions in USA, England, Scotland, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand and China.

He has developed and taught in a long-cycle study programme for trade union officials (The STI-project for General Workers Union of Denmark).

He has been involved in several activities concerning further pedagogical education of the teachers within the Danish Trade Union Congress (LO) Internal Education System (FIU).

He has extensive project management experience from the activities mentioned above.

He has extensive teaching experience obtained from adult education, university teaching, including open university in adult education and training of shop stewards and teachers in the system of adult vocational training, and tuition.

* INTERNATIONAL AND SPECIFIC EU COUNTRIES AND PROGRAMMES EXPERIENCE:
Danish representative in the UNESCO 'Expert Consultation of the European Region for the Promotion of Vocationally-oriented Adult Education Programmes', Hamburg 1988.

Member of 'Internationale Arbeitskreis Arbeit, Bildung, Wissenschaft' about workers education and trade unions. Participants from Denmark, Germany, Austria, Holland and UK, 1989-ongoing.

Involved in development and monitoring of a ERASMUS-programme in adult education (ICP D-1189/05 'Studies in European Adult Education') together with 22 European universities, containing a diploma and a Ph.D.-programme in adult education, cultural and societal studies, 1989-95.

Provided academic advice and guidance on research methods in relation to a FORCE-project on job-switching and qualifications. Partners were workers educational associations and private companies in Denmark, Scotland and France, 1993-94.

Member of the Danish Steering Committee concerning the EURODELPHI 95-project: The Future Goals and Policies of Adult Education in Europe, supported by DGXXII - European Community, 1994-95.

Actively participating in the ESREA Research Network: 'Adult Education and the Labour Market', 1994-ongoing.

Actively participating in the SOCRATES-programme: 'A European Adult Education Programme for Trade Unions' together with universities, adult education bodies and trade unions in 12 European countries, 1996-1999.

Involved in development and evaluation of the LEONARDO-programme: 'Structured training, distance learning and communication for shop stewards in a multinational company', together with partners from trade unions and adult education bodies in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, UK, Germany and Belgium, 1995-1998.

Close cooperation with the Greek Trade Union Congress (GSEE/INE) about development of 'participatory training concepts' and social networks for workers, women and youth in local regions, supported by the EU-Commission (YOUTHSTART, NOW and ADAPT), 1996-ongoing.

Developed and taught at a training project for managers and teachers from vocational training centres in Bosnia-Hercegovina; financed by EU's PHARE-programme.

Research and development activities in collaboration with East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

Member of research network for 'Older Workers', Cedefop/ EU.

Member of OWN: Older Workers Network, Nordisk Ministerråd/Nordic Council of Ministers (NVL: Äldre i arbetslivet)

Partner in several Grundtvig - and related European Union - projects (please see Projects on this website)

* OTHERS:

Selected publications:

• Leif Hansen: "Kulturelle barrierer mod uddannelsessøgning", i Erik Mei strup (red.): Om skift i mulighederne for deltagelse i vok senundervisningen i fremtiden, DAUF 1986.
• Leif Hansen: Betalt frihed til uddannelse - hvorfor, hvordan? AOFs Forlag, august 1987 (sammen med Dorith Hansen og Bjarne Wahlgren).
• Leif Hansen: "University Education". Bidrag i Scottish Journal of Adult Education, Autumn 1987 Vol. 8 No. 2. SIACE - Scottish Institute of Adult and Continuing Education, 1987 (on universities in Denmark and Paid Educational Leave).
• Leif Hansen: "Adult Education in Context" (with Nigel Paine) and "Openness in Adult Education" (with Nigel Paine), in Andersen, Finn and Nigel Paine (eds.): Anything to learn? A Scottish/Danish Dialogue on Adult Education, Copenhagen and Glasgow 1989.
• Leif Hansen: A Course of Study for Local Trade Union Officials. Adult Education Research Group, Roskilde University Centre, 1989 (with A.S. Andersen, H.S. Olesen, F. Sommer og K. Weber).
• Leif Hansen: EDB-efteruddannelse - oplysning og kvalificering, Akademisk Forlag 1991 (sammen med Per Fibæk Laursen og Vibe Aarkrog).
  Computertraining and General Education, in International Journal of Lifelong Education, Vol. 12, No. 4 (October-December 1993). (with Per Fibæk Laursen og Vibe Aarkrog).
• Leif Hansen: Liv i voksenundervisningen - en kvalitativ undersøgelse af nogle VUP-forløb med udgangspunkt i deltagerne. Arbejdsmarkedsstyrelsen og Undervisningsministeriet, 1995 (sammen med Kirsten Larsen og Ingeborg Netterstrøm).
• Leif Hansen: "EDB-efteruddannelse og almen voksenundervisning", i Christina Nyhed (red.): Från livsfas till livsform. Nordisk antologi om vuxenpedagogik og vuxenutbildning. Nordisk Folkeuniversitet, Stockholm 1995.
• Leif Hansen: "Job-Switching: Swopping between Employment-Unemployment and Education. A Danish/International Experience", in Henning Salling Olesen (ed.): Adult Education and Labour Market II. ESREA Research Network. Papers from the second Seminar of the Network in Strobl, Austria, June 1995. Published by Adult Education Research Group, University of Roskilde, Bundesinstitut für Erwachsenenbildung St. Wolfgang, Strobl and ESREA, Viborg 1996.
• Leif Hansen: "'Al den snak om voksenuddannelse' - om arbejderkultur og voksenundervisning", i Litha Christiansen og Søren Dupont (red.): Voksenundervisningens veje & vildveje. En FOFU-an tologi. FOFU/RUC, 1996
• Leif Hansen: "'Hvor i alverden er voksenundervisningen på vej hen?'- hurtige indfald, hidsige udfald og et enkelt eksempel", i Social Kritik nr. 44, juni 1996.
• Leif Hansen: "Travle, halvgamle mænd i uddannelsesssamfundet" - en undersøgelse af nogle 40-60-årige mænds motivation og barrierer i forhold til voksenuddannelse. Undervisningsministeriet, 1997 (sammen med Lillian Christensen, Søren Dupont og Tricia Gale).
• Leif Hansen: "Semi-skilled, Mature Men in Adult Education - Motivation and Barriers. A Research Project Summary", in Henning Salling Olesen (Ed.): Adult Education and the Labour Market IV. ESREA Research Network. Papers from the Fourth Seminar of the Network in Dubrovnik, Roskilde May 1998.
• Leif Hansen: "Det var det!" In Dansk Pædagogisk Tidsskrift nr. 3, juni 1998. (ISSN 0904-2393). Artiklen er også trykt i tidsskriftet "Folkeoplysning" nr. 3, sept. 1998.
• Leif Hansen: "Dialog: Eksistenspædagogik i støbeskeen. Et forsøg på at formulere en mere omfattende voksenpædagogik - og en kritisk imødegåelse", in Dansk Pædagogisk Tidsskrift nr.2, maj 1999 (sammen med Finn Thorbjørn Hansen).
• Leif Hansen: "The creation, the beginning and the work of project groups. Referring to certain cases of women networks", in Betziou Natassa and Babanelou Despoina (eds.): Dimensions and Perspectives of the Participatory Methodology in Adult Education. Labor's Institute GSEE (Greek Union of Workers Association). Athens 1999 {4 Education / Training}.
• Leif Hansen: "(Nogle) voksnes lærings- og undervisningsbegreber", in Pia Friberg (red.): Hvad tænder? Et debatskrift om voksenuddannelse, Undervisningsministeriet, 1999.
• Leif Hansen: "Uddannelseskløften igen igen? In En reform med mening i?" Kroniksamling 1999, KAD/SiD/NNF, 1999.
• Leif Hansen: "Denmark", in: Bridgford, Jeff and John Stirling (eds.): Trade Union Education in Europe; European Trade Union College (ETUCO), Bruxelles, 2000 (sammen med Finn M. Sommer)
• Leif Hansen: "Semi-skilled, mature men in adult education - Motivation and barriers. A research project summary", in Working knowledge: productive learning at work. International conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Dec. 2000.
• Leif Hansen: "Dinamarca", in: Bridgford, Jeff y John Stirling (eds.): La Formación Sindical en Europa, Academia Sindical Europea (ASE)/Confederación Sindical de CCOO, Valencia 2002 (sammen med Finn Sommer)
• Leif Hansen: Kompetenceudvikling for havnearbejdere i Øresundsregionen. RUC/Havnearbejdernes Fællesforbund, 2002 (sammen med Tom Nielsen)
• Leif Emil Hansen: Højt at flyve – om TR-rollen i BUPL. August 2003
• Leif Hansen: Seniorer i centrum – Metoder og modeller for analyse og implementering af aktiv seniorpolitik. RUC/FIC, januar 2004 (sammen med Tom Nielsen og Lene Rosfort)
• Leif Emil Hansen: "Seniorer skal sættes i centrum". Kronik i Kristeligt Dagblad, tirsdag den 23. marts 2004 (sammen med Tom Nielsen)