The Research Team

Project Management Structure

The trustees of CPE Charity provides the overall management of the project. Their management aims to ensure that the project is on target whilst delegating detailed day-to-day running decisions to the senior research consultant. The senior research consultant will report to the trustees via Professor Roland Meighan.

Volunteers and participants from the education community has significant input into the direction of specific research questions.

The Research Team

Roland Meighan is the trustee with special responsibility for this project (see above).

Jan Fortune-Wood MA (Cantab) PhD. Cert.Ed is the author of four books on autonomous home education, the impact of home education on parenting and the negative impact of institutionalising education.

• Doing it Their Way
• Without Boundaries
• Bound to be Free
• With Consent

She has also contributed chapters to books on home education children with special needs and how children manage transitions. Jan wrote a regular home education diary column for the Education Otherwise newsletter for two years and regularly contributes articles to the ‘Taking Children Seriously’ journal. She writes a regular column on autonomous home education for the international journal 'Life Learning' and is currently working on a book on parenting and autonomy.

Jan has a background in teaching. Counselling, community development and charity management. She has worked with several projects serving families in areas of deprivation and founded the charity 'Seeds of Hope', a community centre on an outer estate in Birmingham.

Mike Fortune-Wood BA owns the largest home education website in the UK and provides an extensive free information and support service from the site, including developing links with and support of the home education network across Europe:

www.home-education.org.uk

He also hosts and runs the European home education website:

www.learning-unlimited.org

Mike has a background in economics and social sciences and has worked in charities and the home office delivering community project. He has done significant work with charities in policy development, management structures, developing charity business plans and fund raising. He has also undertaken feasibility research for charities and developed several websites for charities and community groups.

Both Mike and Jan were part of the group that contributed to and disseminated the Elective Home Education Legal Guidelines to all Local Education Authorities in England and Wales. Together they home educate their four children aged 8-15 and have been involved in the home education community for eleven years.