Dr Stan Lester

 

 

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I am an author and independent academic in the field of professional and work-related education and development. 

Over the last 30 years my work has included helping professions to set up or revise systems for qualifying and self-regulation; developing and researching systems and practices in professional and work-based education; and working on national and European projects in the area of qualification frameworks and accreditation.  I am now retired from consultancy, though I still have some writing projects in hand.  Please note that I don’t respond to requests to submit articles or to review for additional journals.

My published work spans five principal areas: professionalisation and self-regulation, professional competence, work-based higher education including degree apprenticeships and practitioner doctorates, qualifications and qualifications frameworks, 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 live just outside Taunton with my partner Philippa, and outside my academic 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 me at info<at>devmts.co.uk.

 

© Stan Lester 2026