Gil Long
Gil is co-director of the Active Learning Centre. She has extensive experience of capacity building in the NGO sector including work on governance, management, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy and lobbying. She is currently a consultant on a large-scale project in Western China on girls’ education and is working on action research on equality and diversity with the STUC. Gil is an experienced trainer and researcher who has published work on poverty.
Kate Phillips
Kate Phillips is the founder and co-director of Active Learning Centre. A social development specialist with fifteen years consultancy in governance, implementation of rights, workplace standards and civil society development. Kate is an experienced trainer who has developed a large body of educational material. Her current work with the centre includes human rights consultancies in Turkey and China and the design and delivery of poverty training.
Associate consultants
Dinah Bennett
is senior tutor at Durham University’s Business School, she specialises in women’s entrepreneurship and enterprise development.
Chris Edwards
is a development economist and senior fellow at the University of East Anglia. His expertise is in trade, finance, industrial policy, poverty analysis and anti-poverty strategies.
Jacqueline France-McNeill
is a trained journalist who has worked extensively in TV and radio.
Lynette Jordan
is a lecturer in the Adult and Continuing Education Department at Glasgow University with a special interest in community-based learning, gender rights and discrimination.
Simekha Joseph
is a civil society activist, policy analyst and trainer. He has worked extensively on Kenya’s poverty reduction strategy and the constitutional review.
Irene Kitson
is a consultant and trainer working on employment law, equalities issues and political participation. She is an employment tribunal member and a Justice of the Peace.
Jan MacLeod
is a qualified community worker who has worked for many years on the issue of violence against women.
People involved in the Chevening Fellowship course
Etienne D’Aboville ( Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living)
Jan Beattie (Beattie Consulting)
Ephraim Borowski (Scottish Council of Jewish Communities)
Jonathan Brown (Easterhouse Social Inclusion Partnership)
Margaret Curran (Member of Scottish Parliament)
Ben Evans (Charity Commission for England and Wales)
Jacqueline France-McNeill (independent media consultant)
Richard Fries (London School of Economics)
Loretta Gaffney (Easterhouse Citizens Advice Bureau)
Kath Gallagher (Glasgow Violence Against Women Partnership)
David Halliday (Office of MSP Des McNulty)
Irene Henery (Disability Rights Commission)
Fr. John Keenan (Glasgow University Catholic Chaplaincy)
Chris Kyriakides (University of Glasgow)
Kathy Long (BBC)
Louise Mackenzie (Glasgow City Council)
Jane Mackenzie (Glasgow City Council)
Ken Macdonald (BBC)
Mkami McCrum (Central Scotland Racial Equality Council)
Rosina McCrae (Say Women)
Jane Mair (University of Glasgow)
Stephen Maxwell (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations)
Des McNulty (Member of Scottish Parliament)
Greg Philo ( University of Glasgow)
Jane Ryder (Office of the Scottish Charities Regulator)
Osama Saeed (Moslem Council of Britain)
Organisations offering placements for Chevening Fellows
The Poverty Alliance
The Charity Commission
Parkhead Citizens Advice Bureau
Scottish Refugee Council
Amnesty International
West of Scotland Racial Equality Council
Strathclyde Police Diversity Unit
Glasgow Alliance
Peace and Reconciliation Group
Pollok Citizens Advice Bureau
One Plus
Glasgow Violence Against Women Partnership
Glasgow City Councillors: John Mason and Archie Graham
Glasgow Housing Association
University of Glasgow Equality and Diversity Unit
Maryhill Citizens Advice Bureau
Oxfam Scotland
Central Scotland Racial Equality Council
