Professor Trotman was appointed as Head of Department in Adult Continuing Education from September 1999 and as Director of Adult Continuing Education from April 2003.

Qualifications

BSc (Econ) 2:1 in Sociology (1982-1985)
PhD “Attitudinal and Behavioural Response to Changing Patterns of Technological and Organisation Innovation” (1987-1993) in Sociology (awarded in 1993).

Research interests

Social exclusion; education and social class; trade union studies; community studies

Courses Taught

MA in Lifelong Learning ‘Education and Society’, module 10 week

Publications/papers

2007 Trotman, C; Joint editor with M. Abrahamson, T. Acland, , M. Hill, T. Hudson, P.  Jones, A. Lines, D. Saunders, J. Storan, and R.Kop, Transformation, Progression and Hope, whatever happened to lifelong learning? Cromwell Press, London. ISBN 978-1-905858-11-8.
2007 Trotman, C; Joint editor with R.Kop, R. Jones, J. McCallum and R. Payne, Swansea University, Swansea, Changing Landscapes, ISBN 978-1-900346-95-5 (in print) Changing Landscapes published by the Department of Adult Continuing Education, University of Wales Swansea.  ISBN: 978-1-900346-95-5.
2005 Trotman, C; et al From the margins to the mainstream: Embedding widening participation in higher education, Universities UK, 2005, ISBN: 1 84036 122 0.
2005 Trotman, C; Emlyn Williams (1921-1995), New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.  ISBN 019861411X.

2003 Trotman, C; Pudner, H; Higher Education and Social Impact: A Community Education Role to Widen Participation, Rodopi Publications – Research Series.   ISBN 90-420-1146-7.

2003 Trotman, C; Evaluation of the Step-up to Science Widening Participation Project, at the University of Ulster, published by the University of Ulster.
2003 Trotman, C; Pester, S; The value of NAB provision in supporting non-formal learning and its contribution to widening participation, in Attracting and Retaining Learners: Policy and Practice Perspectives, editor Danny Saunders et al, Chapter 7, pages 69-74.  FACE publication 2003. ISBN 1-840540-86-9.

2002 Trotman, C; Humphreys, R O; Pudner, H; Warren, C;
‘They get you trying’ Swansea Skills Service: an evaluation of the project, Department of Adult Continuing Education, University of Wales Swansea, 2002, 120 pp.

2002 Trotman, C; Kop, F. G; The Connecting Communities Cymru Project: using ICT to overcome geographical and educational disadvantage, (editor Dr Artur Bartosik) in The Application of Information Technology in Adult Education, published by University of Kielce, Poland, 163-172.  ISBN 83-88906-14-3.

2002 Trotman, C; Pudner, H; The Penderry Project 1996-2000, Journal of Lifelong Learning Initiatives (JOLLI), October, Issue No 32, 15-21.  ISSN 1464-1763.

2002 Trotman, C; Pudner, H; Woodrow, M; York, M; Lee, M F; McGrane, J; Osborne, B; Social class and participation: Good practice in widening access to higher education.  Universities UK, 2002, 177 pp. ISBN 1 84036 077 1.
2000 Trotman, C; and Pudner, H;
Collaboration as the key to inclusive higher education, Lifelong Learning in Europe, V, 4, 2000, 208-16. ISSN 1239-6826.

2000 Trotman, C; and Pudner, H;
A negotiated curriculum: reflections on aspiration and curriculum development in the context of social exclusion and educational alienation’, Welsh Journal of Education, 9, 2, 2000, 75-88. ISSN 0957-297X.

2000 Trotman, C; and Pudner, H;
Higher education in the context of social exclusion: community collaboration at all levels, in Changing the Culture of the Campus: Towards an Inclusive Higher Education, editors Thomas, L and Cooper, M, Staffordshire University Press, 2000, 168-76. ISBN 1 897898 65 7.

2000 Trotman, C; and Francis, H;
A Continuity of purpose?  Education and the South Wales miners’, in The Rise and Fall of Adult Education Institutions and Social Movements, editors. Cooke, A and MacSween, A, Peter Lang, 2000, 92-106. ISBN  3-631-36174-2.

2000 Trotman, C; Clancy, H; and Hoque, M;
Pathways for Ethnic Minorities. Research Papers in Continuing Education, DACE, University of Wales Swansea. ISBN 1900346 50 8.

1998 Trotman, C; Pudner, H; Woodrow, M; Lee, M F; McGrane, J; and Osborne, B;
From Elitism to Inclusion:  Good Practice in Widening Access to Higher Education, Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, London, 1998, 150 pp.  ISBN 1 84036 021 6.

1998 Trotman, C; Burge, A; and Francis, H;
In a Class of their Own:  Adult Learning and the South Wales Mining Community 1900-1939’, ESRC Learning Society Project.

1998 Trotman, C;
What’s the point?  Questions that matter in community-based projects designed to counter social exclusion and increase participation in continuing education, in Beyond the Boundaries, (ed. J Preece), National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 1998, 47-55. ISBN 1 86201 047 1.

Awaiting Publication

2008 Trotman, C; et al The University in the Community: improving student recruitment and retention through outreach and partnership working, Queens University Ulster, in print Autumn 2008.

Membership of interest groups/professional bodies

• Deputy Chair UALL Cymru
• HEFCW National Steering Group for Widening Access
• UALL (UK) National Executive
• External Evaluator for ‘Step-up to Science’ Widening Participation Programme, Magee College, University of Ulster