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. I am now 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 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.

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). Since 1992 I have been a qualified member of the Institute of Training and Development and its successor the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

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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