Professor Barry Golding

Professor Barry Golding is a vocational, adult and community education researcher in the School of Education at the University of Ballarat in Australia. Barry is Vice President of Adult Learning Australia and Patron of the Australian Men’s Sheds Association. Professor Golding has extensive education and research experience in school, vocational education and training, adult and community education and university sectors spanning 30 years. His education-related research in the past fifteen years has focused mainly on vocational and adult education, with a particular emphasis on: access and equity in vocational education and training; Indigenous vocational education and adult and community education. In recent years he has focused on studies of learning in voluntary community settings that are inclusive of men. Several of his national studies have been published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). His increasingly international research has increasingly gravitated towards issues associated with how adults, particularly men not in the workforce, connect to learning through participation in diverse and less formal community contexts. In 2009 he completed research in four Australian States in twelve sites for the Western Australia Department of Education & Training and also for National Seniors Australia Productive Ageing Centre.
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