Chris Wakeman

After eleven year's in engineering, Chris retrained as a secondary school teacher during the 1980s and went on to spend seven years in schools. In 1996 Chris was appointed as an MoD lecturer and head of mathematics at RAF Cosford before moving into higher education as a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. After four years Chris moved on to Staffordshire University in the role of Curriculum Development Manager and spent time at the University of derby as Learning experience Manager before returning to Wolverhampton earlier this year. Chris was chair of the British Education Studies Association (BESA) during 2008 and is currently the joint Managing Editor of the Innovative Practice in Higher education journal and a member of the editorial team for EducationalFutures, the online BESA journal.