Sharon Clancy - Co-optee Learner Expereience Committee

Dr Sharon Clancy is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, specialising in post-16 and adult education. Her writing focuses on class, culture and social justice issues with a psycho-social and historical lens. Sharon was Head of Community Engagement at the University of Nottingham between 2007 and 2013.

A voluntary sector leader before entering academia, Sharon was CEO of Mansfield Council for Voluntary Services from 2000 to 2007. Sharon is Chair of the Raymond Williams Foundation, a commissioner for the Centenary Commission, and co-editor of the Studies in the Education of Adults journal. She convenes, with Dr Iain Jones, the Research Circle on Fostering Democracy, Debate and Dialogue which emerged from the Centenary Commission on Adult Education.

In 2025 she was awarded a year-long Leverhulme Research Fellowship to research 'Lost Spaces and Untold Stories: the Vanishing World of Experimental Adult Education' , starting October 2025. In 2025 she also won the Lord Dearing Award which recognises the outstanding achievements of University of Nottingham staff in enhancing the student learning experience.

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