A International work – Bhutan a) Name of assignment or project: Consultancy Service for developing Research Policy and
Capacity Building for the Royal Education Council.
Year: 2014 (May-June)
Location: Thimphu, Bhutan
Client: Royal Educatin Council, Bhutan
Main project features: Draft research policy.
Positions held: Consultant
Activities performed: Drafting research policy for the REC together with liaising with key staff in its development. Undertake associated capacity building of n=20 staff.
b) Capacity Building for Leadership in Higher Education in Bhutan
Year: 2013
Location: Armidale, Australia
Client: AusAID, AA Fellowship
Main project features: 16 senior academics from RUB shadowed UNE counterparts and based on their needs and what they learned developed projects tom implement upon return.
Positions held: Project Leader (J Reid assisted)
Activities performed: Obtained grant. Led all liaison activities for shadowing and inputs. Led sessions on action plans for Fellows upon return. Three weeks intensive work plus follow up in
Bhutan early Septermber. c) Name of assignment or project: The Royal University of Bhutan Higher Degree Research
Project: Stage 1
Year: 2012
Location: Thimphu, Bhutan
Client: Royal University of Bhutan
Main project features: Design of Research Masters and PhD policy, regulations and associated documentation
Positions held: Project Leader (J Reid assisted)
Activities performed: Over two months, assessed the current status of higher degree research in the Royal University of Bhutan, drafted policies, procedures and standards for higher degree research
(Master’s and PhD) in RUB, developed a draft Handbook for Higher Degree Research in RUB; and recommend strategic actions for implementing the policies. d) Name of assignment or project: Using Action Learning to develop leadership in Teacher
Education
Year: 2008/9
Location: Australia
Client: AusAID (Australian Leadership Award Fellowship)
Main project features: Capacity building in teacher education as part of the Australian Leadership
Award Fellowship program.
Positions held: Director
Activities performed: Conceptualising the capacity building, budgeting and liaising with four universities in Bhutan, East Timor, PNG and Vietnam. Liaised with consultants, taught action learning component and supported action learning upon Fellows return. e) Name of assignment or project: Establishment of the Centre for University Learning and
Teaching (CULT), Royal University of Bhutan
Year: 2008 (two months)
Location: Samtse, Bhutan
Client: Royal University of Bhutan (RUB)
Main project features: Policy, governance and budget identification and short and long terms plans to establish CULT.
Positions held: Director/Leader (J Reid assisted)
Activities performed: Established policy framework including mechanisms for accreditation of capacity building to formal awards. Negotiated governance and budget framework and co-ordinated

review of library infra-structure and practices to support CULT. Completed three capacity building workshops. Responsibility for project completion, presented and submitted Final Report. f) Name of assignment or project: BEd by DE at the Samtse campus of the Royal
University of Bhutan
Year: 2006 (two months in country +)
Location: Samtse, Bhutan
Client: Royal University of Bhutan (RUB)
Main project features: Curriculum review and capacity building along with policy and capacity building in two Colleges of Education in Bhutan
Positions held: Director Leader
Activities performed: Re-conceptualised the ToR and the roles of the four consultants. Undertook negotiations for the contract. Liaised with senior RUB officials and team members. Liaised with initial team leader during its first two months on situational analysis and program review and reporting of findings. Became team leader in second two months. Took responsibility for project completion including plans for capacity building, materials development, award re-structure and liaison on Final
Report. g) Name of assignment or project: Bhutan Public Sector Capacity Building
Year: 2008-2011
Location: Australia/Bhutan
Client: AusAID
Main project features: Capacity building in distance education Public Sector Leadership Program to develop academics’ skills to implement public sector capacity building in Bhutan
Positions held: Director
Activities performed: Conceptualizing the capacity building, budgeting and liaising with the Royal
Institute of management and the Royal Civil Service Commission. Liaised with consultants and UNE officials. Trouble shooting in Bhutan to get the project re-aligned. h) Name of assignment or project: Bhutan Multi-grade Attachment Project
Year: 1997 - 2008
Location: UNE but included almost annual visits to Bhutan
Client: Ministry of Education, Royal Government of Bhutan
Main project features: Capacity building in multigrade education of remote teachers from Bhutan
Positions held: Project leader (1997-2001) then Director (2002-8)
Activities performed: Lead and direct the entire development of the project including its conceptualization, budgeting and implementation. Liaison with Bhutan and with UNE colleagues. Over
140 teachers and others were trained. i) Name of assignment or project: INSET Study
Year: 1998 - 1999
Location: Thimphu, Bhutan (two periods of three months)
Client: Ministry of Education
Main project features: Evaluatino of the impact of in-service education
Positions held: Project Leader
Activities performed: Work under the direction of the largely Australia-based Project Director but lead in country project. Worked with in country counterparts to gather data and analyse those data and present a report into the state of in-service in Bhutan. Co-wrote report that was subsequently published and uses as the basis for development of in-service education of teachers in Bhutan. j) Name of assignment or project: Various short course capacity building projects
Year: 2003 - 2008
Location: UNE
Client: Ministry of Education, Royal Government of Bhutan
Main project features: Capacity building of teachers and others in multi-grade education
Positions held: Manager

Activities performed: Act as main contact person for annual capacity building short courses of the
Ministry of Education/Royal University of Bhutan officials in aspects of education
B a)
South & South East Asia
Name of assignment or project: Upper Secondary and Professional Teacher
Development in Vietnam
Year: 2012
Location: Lismore, Australia
Client: Asian Development Bank Loan No. 2298 - VIE (SF)
Main project features: Capacity building of leaders (N=35) in teacher education.
Positions held: Short course leader (J Reid assisted) (Prof Martin Hayden, Director)
Activities performed: Designed specific program, led presentation and generally managed the three weeks of learning including research methods and supporting the development of a project upon return to Vietnam. b) Name of assignment or project: Upper Secondary and Professional Teacher
Development in Vietnam
Year: 2011
Location: Lismore, Australia
Client: Asian Development Bank Loan No. 2298 - VIE (SF)
Main project features: Capacity building of leaders (N=20) in teacher education.
Positions held: Short course leader (J Reid assisted) (Prof Martin Hayden, Director)
Activities performed: Designed specific program, led presentation and generally managed the three weeks of learning including research methods and supporting the development of a project upon return to Vietnam. c) Name of assignment or project: Australian Leadership Award Fellowship
Year: 2011
Location: Lismore, Australia
Client: AusAID
Main project features: Capacity building of leaders (N=12) of one university in Lao PDR.
Positions held: Short course leader (J Reid assisted) (Prof Martin Hayden, Director)
Activities performed: Designed specific program, led presentation and generally managed the two weeks of learning including building knowledge of action learning to use as the basis of a report upon their return to Ventiane. d) Name of assignment or project: Improved feeding systems for more efficient beef cattle production in Cambodia - Children and fodder cut and carry.
Year: 2010 (one month)
Location: Kampong Cham and Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Client: ACIAR/University of New England
Main project features: research into the social impacts of cattle/feeding systems in three rural areas
Positions held: Project leader (J Reid assisted)
Activities performed: Lead a team of five including two graduate and one undergraduate Royal
University of Agriculture students as research assistants. Designed the research study, trained the research assistants, guided the data analysis and led the researchers in writing a published journal article based upon this work. e) Name of assignment or project:
Year: 2009 (one month)
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Client: PADECO
Main project features: Development of Higher Education in Vietnam
Positions held: University Partnerships

Activities performed: Research partnership alternatives and used experience to develop strategies for Vietnamese universities to develop partnerships with universities of the world. Research included visits and interviews with six institutional leaders in Colleges of Education in N Vietnam. f) Name of assignment or project: EFA data for Afghanistan
Year: 2000 (2.5 months)
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Client: UNESCO
Main project features: Collation of qualitative data on basic skills of children in Afghanistan and development of report
Positions held: Project Leader (J Reid assisted)
Activities performed: Identifying quality data from varied sources inside Afghanistan. Collation of data.
Site visits to Afghanistan. Liaison with UN officers in Islamabad. Development of a report and presentation of main findings to UN office.
C Pacific a) Name of assignment or project: 100 Schools Project
Year: 2003 (one month)
Location: Dili, East Timor
Client: UNICEF
Main project features: Conceptualising the design of the study and liaising with Universidad
Positions held: Director
Activities performed: and liaising with Unive rsidad Nacional Tior Lorosa’e (UNTL) officers for
UNOCEF to create baseline data from studies in basic subjects. Required liaison with NSW Department of Education and Training in the use of their Basic Skills Tests. b) Name of assignment or project: MoU UNE/UNTL
Year: 2003 (two weeks)
Location: Dili, East Timor
Client: UNICEF
Main project features:
Positions held: Project Leader
Activities performed: Liaison between UNE and Universidad Nacional Timor Lorosa’e officials and signing of MoU in Dilli
D Sub-Saharan Africa a) Name of assignment or project: ‘ Developing Zambian and Ugandan Teacher Trainers in
Multigrade Education’
Year: 2009-2011 (In country - 2009: two weeks; 2011: two weeks plus etc)
Location: Kampala, Uganda and Lusaka, Zambia
Client: British Council’s DelPHE program
Main project features: Teachers’ college lecturer professional development in multi-grade education
Positions held: Australian counterpart leader.
Activities performed: Led project application. Action research presenter in Zambia and Uganda
(2009). Led small team in Zambia in 2011 to deliver a multi-grade manual co-written by me.