Napier Centre for Learning Communities

About us - staff details

Professor Sam Allwinkle
Associate Director, Academic Development
Email: s.allwinkle@napier.ac.uk

Professor Allwinkle has a background in professional practice in Construction (Architecture and Surveying) as partner and company director. During his academic career he has been Professor and Director of Research in the Built Environment and Chair of the Research Committee for the Council of Professors of Building Engineering Management.

Professor Allwinkle is Director of Lifelong Learning at Napier University which is one of the leading institutions in Europe developing the concept of lifelong learning through knowledge transfer and capacity building, widening access, flexibility and credit accumulation to transform communities, businesses and citizens. He is currently Director within Academic Development Group responsible for Lifelong Learning and Wider Access Further Education Partnerships, Customised Programmes, including RPL, CPD and European Structural Funding.

Professor Allwinkle has served on government, professional and national education committees. He was appointed as a member of Sir Michael Latham’s Review of the UK Construction Industry in 1994 as one of four academics in the UK to report to the Secretary of State for the Environment on the future of the professional education in the UK, with specific responsibility for research relating to common educational provision in UK universities.

During the last ten years, he has led over 20 major externally-funded projects with a value in excess of €30 million, from both the public and private sectors, including the UK Know How Fund, DOE, Scottish Executive, SHEFC, LINK CMR, EPSRC, EC ESF ADAPT and ERDF, EC Tempus, EC COMETT, PHARE, EC, IST Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Framework, R3L, Gruntvig and Socrates.

Professor Allwinkle was Project Director for the €10 million Project funded by ESF/ADAPT which made a major contribution to the development of the UK University for Industry (Learn Direct). The EC-funded project TELS (Towards a European Learning Society ) was used to formulate EC policy on Learning Cities and Regions. He is currently involved with a number of EC funded projects e.g. INTELCITIES, LUDA, LILLIPUT, PALLACE, NEWTELS, R3L PROMOTER AND e-business projects to develop Learning Cities and capacity building of SMEs. Current projects focus on Learning Cities and Communities, European Lifelong Learning Indicators (LILLIPUT, PALLACE, LUDA and INTELCITIES) funded by EC FP5 and FP6.

Professor Allwinkle is a member of the Scottish Building Regulations Advisory Committee; SHEFC TQA Assessor (Built Environment) Chair and member of QAA Benchmarking Panel for Architectural Technology; external examiner for universities (undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorates); and external examiner and accreditation assessor for professional bodies (RICS, CIOB and CIAT).He is also an external assessor for UK research bodies and for the Italian Government, in the assessment of research projects in Architectural Technology and Sustainability. He is a member of the ESF Objective 3 Scotland management committee. His main areas of research expertise are in building performance, sustainability and knowledge management.

Key Areas: Citizens Business Cities Governance E-learning Knowledge Management Sustainable Development This page was last updated Wednesday March 25 2009		About us - staff details Professor Sam Allwinkle Associate Director, Academic Development Email: s.allwinkle@napier.ac.uk Professor Allwinkle has a background in professional practice in Construction (Architecture and Surveying) as partner and company director. During his academic career he has been Professor and Director of Research in the Built Environment and Chair of the Research Committee for the Council of Professors of Building Engineering Management. Professor Allwinkle is Director of Lifelong Learning at Napier University which is one of the leading institutions in Europe developing the concept of lifelong learning through knowledge transfer and capacity building, widening access, flexibility and credit accumulation to transform communities, businesses and citizens. He is currently Director within Academic Development Group responsible for Lifelong Learning and Wider Access Further Education Partnerships, Customised Programmes, including RPL, CPD and European Structural Funding. Professor Allwinkle has served on government, professional and national education committees. He was appointed as a member of Sir Michael Latham’s Review of the UK Construction Industry in 1994 as one of four academics in the UK to report to the Secretary of State for the Environment on the future of the professional education in the UK, with specific responsibility for research relating to common educational provision in UK universities. During the last ten years, he has led over 20 major externally-funded projects with a value in excess of €30 million, from both the public and private sectors, including the UK Know How Fund, DOE, Scottish Executive, SHEFC, LINK CMR, EPSRC, EC ESF ADAPT and ERDF, EC Tempus, EC COMETT, PHARE, EC, IST Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Framework, R3L, Gruntvig and Socrates. Professor Allwinkle was Project Director for the €10 million Project funded by ESF/ADAPT which made a major contribution to the development of the UK University for Industry (Learn Direct). The EC-funded project TELS (Towards a European Learning Society ) was used to formulate EC policy on Learning Cities and Regions. He is currently involved with a number of EC funded projects e.g. INTELCITIES, LUDA, LILLIPUT, PALLACE, NEWTELS, R3L PROMOTER AND e-business projects to develop Learning Cities and capacity building of SMEs. Current projects focus on Learning Cities and Communities, European Lifelong Learning Indicators (LILLIPUT, PALLACE, LUDA and INTELCITIES) funded by EC FP5 and FP6. Professor Allwinkle is a member of the Scottish Building Regulations Advisory Committee; SHEFC TQA Assessor (Built Environment) Chair and member of QAA Benchmarking Panel for Architectural Technology; external examiner for universities (undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorates); and external examiner and accreditation assessor for professional bodies (RICS, CIOB and CIAT).He is also an external assessor for UK research bodies and for the Italian Government, in the assessment of research projects in Architectural Technology and Sustainability. He is a member of the ESF Objective 3 Scotland management committee. His main areas of research expertise are in building performance, sustainability and knowledge management.	Professor Sam Allwinkle Staff Professor Sam Allwinkle Associate Director, Academic Development Mark Deakin Director, CLC Ed Craig Head of Project Development & Management Charlotte Norman Marketing Officer Fiona Campbell Research Officer Katarzyna Przybycien Transnational Officer