Mick Bradley has been a member of staff at the Centre for Global Education, York since 2004 and previously taught for 13 years in both primary and middle schools.
Mick works with secondary schools on issues including Trade, Aid, Debt, Millennium Development Goals and Global Citizenship. He has facilitated students playing a wide range of simulation games. He works with primary schools on steps to become a Fair Trade school, finding out about Global Village Maths and on developing the Global Dimension and Cultural Diversity in schools. He wrote the recently launched York Fair Trade Trail for primary schools. He produced a Refugees awareness kit for the York Out of School Clubs. Mick is a member of the UNICEF Education Support Service providing training and classroom sessions on Children’s Rights. He teaches PSHCE to PGCE students at York St John University College.
Mick is a member of the Yorkshire Humber Global Schools Association (YHGSA) working group which has produced resources boxes on Global Citizenship, Race Equality and most recently Education for Sustainable Development.
Mick has developed and run workshops for both primary and secondary teachers to explore issues of Diversity and Race Equalities.
In 2005 he completed the Global Trainer M.A. course run by the Development Education Association and Institute of Education. In 2006 he attained level 1 Philosophy for Children Award and attended the level 2 course.
Chrissie Dell MEd - joined the Centre in 1999 previously having worked in schools , including being a Headteacher. Chrissie is involved in Education Development, working with teachers; schools; local education authorities; lecturers and students in Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Chrissie has a wide experience in facilitating workshops and training at conferences.
Chrissie is a founder member of the Yorkshire Humber Global Schools Association (YHGSA) and coordinates the North South Linking Strategy Group. She support the York Fanteakwa (Ghana) Community Link (YFCL), working with teachers in York and Ghana developing school partnerships.
Consultancy work in North Yorkshire LEA and City of York has included developing and running workshops to raise awareness of the global dimension and the issues of diversity and equalities.
Chrissie represents CGE on several local, national and European organisations.
Jenny Zobel was born in Martinique and educated in France and Senegal. She has a wide experience of teaching and broadcasting with a global perspective. She worked for many years for the BBC World Service in London, making and presenting programmes for Africa. She also spent 10 years as a Media lecturer at Harlech College in Wales, where she devised and taught her own courses in radio production, World Cinema, World music and World poetry.
Since she came to live in York in 2003, she has taught part-time at York University and York College and has gradually become involved with the Centre for Global Education. She first helped to produce a radio programme for ‘Crossing Continents’, a project which put young people in Egypt and North Lincolnshire in contact around a commonly agreed topic. Jenny advised the English schoolchildren on writing their script and using presentation techniques; she also facilitated the recording of the programme in a York College studio, with her own media students acting as technicians.
She is now is working with York and Middlesbrough teachers on the DIFD-funded ‘RE-viewing the World’ Media Project.
Jenny has contributed a number of workshops and presentations for Black History Month, including ‘The Lyrics of Liberation’ which she later delivered as a Town and Gown Lecture at York St John University College. She also interviewed Vice-Principal David Maugham Brown for Human Rights Day in 2005 – a Desert-Island Discs in public - about his past experiences as an anti-Apartheid activist in South Africa.
Margot Brown retired from the Centre in November 2007 though until April 2008 she will continue to coordinate the Media Project. We wish her all the very best for the new and exciting opportunities her retirement will bring.
Richard Thurley left CGE at the end of 2007 to move to Devon. We wish him all the best in his new ventures.