Burke, Penny Jane

Penny Jane Burke did her PhD at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she now teaches on the Gender Studies and Education programs. She is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, an Open College Network moderator on a range of access courses in London and she won the Cosmopolitan Woman of Achievement Award for Education in 1998. Accessing Education grew out of her multiple experiences of access education, as a student, teacher, external moderator and researcher.