Profiles
Judith Mole founded
Direct Learn Services in 2001 after working in education since 1992. A
graduate of the University of Derby, she started working with Deaf
students while at college and has since managed support units for Deaf
students both at Sheffield Hallam University and at the University of
Wolverhampton, where she was also a member of the board of governors.
She has extensive project management and training skills as well as
experience of writing and implementing action plans, strategic policies
and funding bids. She has worked both in the higher and further
education sector.
She has managed a number of HEFCE funded projects
for the University of Wolverhampton which created online BSL/English
dictionaries for art, science and engineering education. She has also
developed a dictionary for Information Communications Technology (ICT)
in BSL/English for the DfES Standards Unit. She has written a number of
publications on
supporting Deaf students. She is the chair of the Supporting Deaf
People online conferences.
Judith has a degree in drama, film and television studies as well as a
postgraduate certificate in TESOL from Sheffield Hallam University.
Geoff Minshull joined
DLS in 2007. Geoff has been in further education since 1983, mainly in
the UK, during which time he has worked with a wide range of businesses
and organisations. He has also worked and lectured extensively in
Southern Africa, Central America, and the USA. Geoff has been involved
in online education for many years, and has worked with LEAs, colleges
and universities, as well as national educational organisations such as
Becta and the JISC. His first degree was from Sussex University in
economics, and he has an MSc from Loughborough University in computers
and education.
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