QUALIFICATIONS
Certificate in Education (Cert.Ed.) Eaton Hall College of Education
Bachelor of Education Hons. (B.Ed. [Hons.]) Univ. Nottingham
Masters (MA) in Cartography Univ. Bucaresti
Chartered Geographer (C.Geog) with the RGS
Mountain Leader. (MLTE) Plas y Brenin
First Aid. HSE FAW. Continuously 1986-2018
First Aid AED Operator & Oxygen 2009-2018
'Heartstart' Instructor
Mountain First Aid Qual. Plas y Brenin from 1986-2018 & Refreshers
AWARDS, ACCREDITATIONS, & RECOGNITIONS
Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society. 1974
Associate Fellow Royal Meteorological Society 2011
Churchill Fellow [Churchill Fellowship Silver Medal: February 2002 for ‘Safety Research in Adventure Training, & School Educational Visits’]
University of Nottingham Scholarship to Universities of Bucharest and Cluj
‘Outdoor Education Champion’ for determined and productive delivery in promoting excellence. Inst. for Outdoor Learning
A ‘National Example of Good Practice in Outdoor Education’ proposed to Ofsted by The British Sports Trust.
Highly praised by Ofsted & (formerly) 'National Strategies' 1997-2014.
EXPERIENCE
Mountaineering & undertaking remote area wilderness work across the whole of the UK and northern Europe, and sub Arctic and polar regions, professionally since 1972, by passion since 1968.
Qualified graduate teacher for 40 years, 30 of which has been heading up Geography and Outdoor Education departments in secondary education.
Have travelled 70,000 kms across the whole of remotest Scandinavia: Arctic Norway, northern Sweden and Finland, across Iceland (almost 30 expeditions and journeys), and across Greenland east to west by dog-sledge; have completed the north-south longitudinal 2,649 mile journey -solo - from Lindesnes in southern Norway to the North Cape and then the complete east-west transect of mainland Scandinavia from Raja Juseppi on the Russian border to the Norwegian coast at Alesund. Book published.
Have instructed wilderness and urban survival and mountaincraft to 100,000 adults and youth.
Manager of Asheldham residential centre for 23 years.
I have logged 710 days safe solo work in remote wilderness areas since 2002 (as at Dec 31st 2017).
Since 1986 I have been a qualified first aider and qualified advanced wilderness first aid medic having dealt with multiple fatalities, trauma, and remote medical emergencies - some of these solo.
I earn my living also as an investigative historical-geographer decoding present landscapes to bring alive the past; I have written and published the first definitive history of the Dengie peninsula, centered on the hamlet of Asheldham, from the last Anglian ice advance to the end of Middle Ages.
Experienced - and recognised by National Strategies - curriculum development skills at integrating outdoor learning into Key Stage 2....across more than 130 schools since 2006.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
The Royal Geographical Society (Fellow)
The Royal Meteorological Society (Assoc. Fellow)
British Mountaineering Council
Mountain Training Association (Full MTA Member)
John Muir Assoc.
CLOtC
Wilderness Medical Assoc..
College of Emergency Medicine
BASICS
MISCELLANEOUS
An Associate at 'CJ Learning Ltd.' specialising in outdoor education as an Education Consultant.
Eight years working freelance for the MOD as a Survival Instructor
Manager, The Asheldham Centre
Mountain Leader (Winter) Training. Glenmore Lodge
Former BELA Course Director & Regional Moderator 1995 - 2004
Written in national media on outdoor education: 'The Times Educational Supplement', & 'Daily Telegraph'
Regularly broadcast on BBC radio
Former adviser to government on educational visits safety
Managing EVNAR : the Educational Visits National Accident Register 1970-2010
1341 (Thundersley) Squadron Air Training Corps RAF Cadets: Fieldcraft Training Officer. (Formerly with 2432 Sqn)