Dr Belinda Hopkins
- Director of Transforming Conflict, the National Centre for Restorative Approaches in Youth Settings. Belinda has been pioneering restorative approaches in youth settings across the UK and beyond, for over 13 years. In the early 90's, after a career in secondary education, she founded Transforming Conflict which has become one of the UK's leading providers of training and consultancy on restorative approaches in youth settings.
Between 2002-4 she was on the Home Office committee that developed the National Practice Guidelines for Restorative Practitioners (published in early 2004). She is now on the Board of Trustees of the Consortium and advises on issues relating to children's services. She currently chairs the Education Committee of the European Forum on Restorative Justice and has been promoting restorative approaches in schools all over Europe for the past 10 years.
Since the mid 1990's Belinda has published numerous articles and book chapters. Her publications include:
Just Schools (2004 Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
Peer Mediation and Mentoring Training Manual (2006 Optimus Publishing)
Just Care (2009 Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
In 2006 she completed her doctoral research on the implementation of restorative approaches in schools - the first Phd to be written in this field.
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Linda Pound's passion is early childhood education, a field in which she has worked throughout her life as a teacher, head teacher, local authority inspector and as a trainer. Her interests include children's learning and curriculum.
She became particularly interested in mathematics when it became clear that the way in which math's is taught does not always correspond with the way in which children learn most effectively. The approach she favours to teaching and learning mathematics emphasises the importance of fun, play and rich experiences. She writes widely about young children.
Her most recent book is entitled Thinking and Learning about Mathematics in the Early Years.
Malika Booker is a British writer of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage. She is the former Education Co-ordinator for Apples and Snakes poetry organization, where she placed poets in educational institutions to facilitate workshops.
She is a sought-after workshop leader and has run creative writing courses for organizations including Apples and Snakes, The Arvon Foundation, National Theatre, Barbican Educational Department, Young Vic and The British Festival of Visual Theatre (BFVT).
She has more than 15 years' experience working with young people in primary and secondary schools in the UK and abroad, whether as a workshop facilitator, visiting writer or creative mentor.
Roy Leighton has been working in value-based environments, in education, arts and business environments for over 25 years... but looks good on it. His areas of expertise are many and varied; from providing stimulating key-note speeches, whole day conferences and workshops and sustainable programmes that run for weeks and years, and on rare occasions, possibly lifetimes.
Visit The Roy Leighton Partnership website.