Sharon Clancy

Sharon Clancy is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK, specialising in post-16 and adult education. Her writing focuses on class, culture and social justice issues with a socio-historical lens. She leads the Research Circle on Fostering Democracy, Debate and Dialogue which emerged from the Centenary Commission on Adult Education. Sharon was Head of Community Engagement at the University of Nottingham between 2007 and 2013. A voluntary sector/public engagement leader before entering academia, she was CEO of Mansfield Council for Voluntary Services between 2000 and 2007. Sharon is currently Chair of the Raymond Williams Foundation. She is also a commissioner for the Centenary Commission, Communications Officer for SCUTREA and Co-Editor of the Studies in the Education of Adults journal.