Who we are

Moira edits the Global Dimension Website as part of her role as DEA's Schools Communications Manager. Before joining DEA in October 2004, Moira worked for the British Council where she was variously responsible for editing publications, developing websites and promoting their sport leadership programmes. Moira has a degree in French, German and International Relations and enjoys reading, travel, and singing.

Liz Allum is one of three members of the Education Team at RISC, a Development Education Centre based in Reading, and is also on the Senior Management Team. She is responsible for running RISC's resource centre: buying, reviewing, and recommending resources to teachers. She also develops training and materials for promoting and embedding global citizenship within and across the curriculum, and provides advice to teachers, school libraries and local authority advisers.

Gillian Campbell works in the modern languages support and development team for Glasgow City Council and has a background in development education and teaching, including a stint in Latin America and a year doing teacher training in China with VSO.

Sarah is Community Involvement Coordinator with the UK One-World Linking Association (UKOWLA), working within the DFID Global School Partnerships programme. She has worked with children with special educational needs since 1996 in mainstream and Special School establishments. She was International Co-ordinator at Fairmead Special School in Somerset, the first school in Yeovil, and one of two Special Schools in Somerset, to achieve the International Schools Award. Sarah is passionate about Fairtrade, Global Citizenship issues, and ensuring SEN pupil access to the Global Dimension.

Bill is a freelance journalist and editor specialising in education and media. He trained to be a teacher, but moved into journalism in the 80s, working for Visual Education, Reed Business Publishing, and the BBC’s staff newspaper, Ariel, before going freelance. Through the 1990s he wrote on film, TV and new media for the TES, as well as editing magazines for the international broadcasting industry. He joined the TES full-time to help launch its website in 1997 but now works as a freelance writer and web sub-editor.

Duncan initially trained as an ecologist and farmed on Exmoor. He then became a science teacher and taught in the UK and abroad, gaining considerable experience working with excluded children with extreme learning and behaviour problems, and children with learning disabilities. Whilst in Africa he moved into the advisory development education field and has worked for many years with Save the Children on global child rights education. Presently Duncan manages development education projects for a number of international NGOs and is a visiting lecturer in Citizenship at London Metropolitan University.

Gillian Symons is a freelance writer, trainer, teacher, researcher and editor with a particular interest in Education for Sustainable Development, the Global Dimension and Citizenship. She edited the Development Education Journal  for five years and was a long-term member of WWF’s inservice training team. Prior to becoming freelance, she worked as a teacher, in community arts and with an inner city environmental education project. She is currently a tutor and web moderator for London South Bank University’s distance learning MSc in Education for Sustainability, working with participants from many countries, which provides her with access to a fascinating range of perspectives on education, development and sustainability.

Cathryn began her career in development as a cheese-maker on a coconut plantation in Tanzania. Passionate about rural development (North and South) she became involved in the development education movement, set up a Development Education Centre in Wales and returned to Tanzania to introduce development education to the Zanzibar Ministries of Education and Youth. She now works as a freelance consultant combining rural development and development education both in Wales and overseas. Hiking, sailing, scuba diving and lazy Sundays are her favourite pastimes.

Cathy was previously Education for Citizenship Development Officer with Learning and Teaching Scotland. She has spent most of her life in developing countries growing up, going to school and travelling. She has worked variously for the British High Commission, US AID and World Educational Survey in a number of African countries. Since moving to Scotland Cathy has worked in schools as a Modern Studies teacher, a subject which emphasises the importance of the global dimension.

Kate began working as Schools Programme Manager at DEA in August 2009. She is a trained Citizenship teacher, and has taught Citizenship and humanities subjects in secondary schools in the UK and abroad. She has also worked as an educational consultant for national and international NGOs, and is the author of several teaching guides. Kate has a Masters in Development and Education, and is currently studying for a PhD as a member of the Development Education Research Centre at the Institute of Education, London.

Nora is the co-ordinator for Global Dimension in Schools NI which aims to support educators in embedding global issues into the curriculum. Nora has taught Chemistry and Moral and Ethical Studies in Madrid, where she was also involved with a Centre for Intercultural Arts and links with education centres in Morocco. In Northern Ireland, Nora has worked as Head of Learning for Life and Work (with specific responsibility for Local and Global Citizenship and curriculum development) and teacher of science at St. Columbanus’ College, Bangor. She is currently completing an MSc in Personal Development and Citizenship Education with a focus on the Global Dimension in Education.