# Olivia Garvey

**Source**: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/directory-record/22798/olivia-garvey
**Parent**: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/lifelong-learning/doc/contact-LLC-staff

Job title
:   Development Officer, Lifelong Learning Centre

## Contact

- [Email Olivia Garvey: o.garvey@leeds.ac.uk](mailto:o.garvey@leeds.ac.uk)
- [Phone Olivia Garvey: +44 (0)113 343 4635](tel:+441133434635)

## Areas of expertise

- Performance techniques for confident communication and public speaking
- Belonging and group building

## My role

In partnership with community organisations and colleges, I develop and deliver activities for adults from under-represented groups to explore their education options.

Through taster sessions and outreach visits, we provide information and opportunities for adults to try university and begin to see it as a realistic option.

I lead the medium-term work of the Communities and Partnerships team, coordinating a programme of visits and study support sessions, subject tasters and an annual school for adult learners. We work in partnership with a wide range of statutory and voluntary sector organisations and continually seek ways to add value to our partners’ multidisciplinary work and support educational progression for excluded groups.

I have been involved with research on refugee education and opportunities and the intergenerational benefits of adult learning, and have co-authored papers on creative pedagogies with marginalised groups and sustaining adult outreach in times of austerity.

I contribute to teaching on the Lifelong Learning Centre’s pre-entry JumpStart taster course, Preparation for Higher Education part-time foundation year and Year 1 of the Professional Studies BA and the Learning and Teaching with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability) BA.

## Research interests

Class and structural inequality, transformative learning, community development, creativity for learning, anti-oppressive pedagogy, theatre in the classroom, equality and diversity, widening participation to higher education, mature students.

## Qualifications

- MA Development Studies
- BA English Literature and Theatre Studies

## Professional memberships

- Member of the Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA)
- Member of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL)