Bill Lucas 

Professor of Learning 

Centre for Real-World Learning 

Email:

Bill.Lucas@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+ 44 (0) 1962 827457 or +44 (0) 1962 826431 

Address:

Biography

Since September 2008, Bill has been Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning and Professor of Learning at the University of Winchester. He is also Chairman of The UK’s Talent Foundation and Chairman of TLO Ltd. Bill is a senior visiting research fellow at the University of Surrey’s School of Management, a non-Executive Director of the Live Group, Chairman of the Talent Foundation and, with Philip Pullman, a patron of Pegasus Theatre in Oxford. He currently runs his own learning strategy business, The Bill Lucas Partnership. Previously Bill was the first CEO of the Campaign for Learning.

Expertise

Originator, while at the Campaign for Learning of Family Learning Day (now Family Learning Weekend).

Consultant on learning and leadership to, among many others:

• Australian National Training Authority
• Alder Hey
• The Health Foundation
• The National College for School Leadership
• Microsoft
• Lloyds TSB

Worldwide speaker on learning, creativity and leadership, including appearances on radio and TV (The Moral Maze, Newsnight, Night Waves, BBC Breakfast, The Learning Curve, Start the Week and Woman’s Hour.) In 2001, he was the international guest of Australia’s Adult Learners’ Week.

Publications

Selected bibliography:

• New kinds of smart: how the science of learnable intelligence is changing education (with Guy Claxton), Open University Press/McGraw-Hill Education, 2010
• rEvolution: how to thrive in crazy times Crown House Publishing, 2009 
• The Creative Thinking Plan (with Guy Claxton), BBC Books, 2007
• Happy Families; how to make one how to keep one, BBC Active, 2006
• Involving parents in schools, Network Continuum, 2006
• Boost your mind power week by week, Duncan Baird, 2006
• Discover your hidden talents; the essential guide to lifelong learning, Network Educational Press, 2005
• Help your child to succeed (with Alistair Smith), Network Educational Press, 2002
• Teaching pupils how to learn, Campaign for Learning, 2002
• Power up your mind; learn faster, work smarter, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2002