My former work-colleague Jennifer Nias, who has died aged 90, was a lecturer in training at King Alfred’s Faculty in Winchester, the Faculty of Schooling on the College of Liverpool after which the Cambridge Institute of Schooling, earlier than changing into a part-time professor of training on the College of Plymouth within the early years of her retirement.
She was additionally the writer of Main Academics Speaking: A Examine of Instructing as Work (1989), a longitudinal research during which she repeatedly interviewed 50 former instructor coaching college students as they progressed by means of their careers. It was a research that just about did not see the sunshine of day, as the one copy of her manuscript was inadvertently despatched to the native authority garbage dump. When she came upon what had occurred, Jennifer rushed down there and – with the assistance of a council employee – was in a position to dig it out of the piles of refuse.
Jennifer was born in Penzance, Cornwall, to Frances (nee Richmond) and her husband, Carl Nias, a supervisor at Cable & Wi-fi whose work meant that the household usually spent important intervals overseas, together with in Malta, from the place they needed to be evacuated throughout the second world struggle.
After leaving Cheltenham Women faculty in Gloucestershire, Jennifer studied fashionable historical past at Oxford College, then gained a PGCE from London College and a PhD from the College of California, Berkeley, earlier than starting her educating profession in Winchester.
We labored with one another on the Cambridge Institute of Schooling, and whereas there we co-authored two books: Workers Relationships within the Main Faculty: A Examine of Organisational Cultures (1989, with Robin Yeomans); and Complete Faculty Curriculum Growth within the Main Faculty (with Penelope Campbell). Jennifer additionally wrote many journal articles in addition to chapters in varied books.
In retirement in Cornwall from 1992 onwards her pursuits included gardening, swimming and dialog with members of the family. She is survived by her brother Jon.
