Stan Lester Developments

Stan Lester Developments

I have worked since 1993 as a consultant, researcher and systems developer in professional and work-related education and development. My work has involved advising emerging professions on setting up systems for self-regulation, as well as working with more established ones to review and revise entry pathways, standards, accreditation and regulatory processes. I have also worked on research and development projects concerned with systems and practices in professional, higher and work-based education, most recently with UVAC. I am semi-retired and will be pulling my project work to a close early in 2027 to concentrate among other things on writing a book on professions.

My published work spans four principal areas: professionalisation and self-regulation, professional competence, work-based higher education including degree apprenticeships and practitioner doctorates, and more recently digital learning. I have been described as a leading expert on professional competence as well as one of the the world’s most important thought-leaders and most cited authors on (university-level) work-based learning.

I have a master’s degree in education from the University of the West of England and a doctorate in professional accreditation from Middlesex University (based on work to develop the heritage conservation profession). I have been a qualified member of the Institute of Training and Development and its successor the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, as well as a fellow of the Institute for Learning and Society for Education and Training.

Outside work my main interests are the landscape, walking and photography. In 2005 I sailed around Britain (and wrote a book about it), and I currently run a walking web site for the Exmoor region in the south-west of England.

Contact Stan at info<at>devmts.co.uk.

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