The AchieveAbility Network is very pleased to announce that Dr. Jeremy Colwill, Dean of Social Science, Humanities and Languages School at the University of Westminster, has recently been appointed as the new Chair of the AchieveAbility Network Steering Group.
Jemery Colwill stated;" I am delighted to have recently become the Chair of the AchieveAbility Steering Group. While I have not to date been directly involved in the work of AchieveAbility I am very well aware of the impressive work that has been done to date. It is an enormously important agenda for all of us in the sector and beyond and I am very pleased that the progress already made is now being approriately recognised nationally. The appointment of Barry Sheerman as President is further evidence of that. I greatly look forward to becoming more closely involved with colleagues and with the work of AchieveAbility generally."
Educated at the Universities of Manchester and Brunel and at the LSE. An experienced solicitor, he has both practical and academic interests in social welfare, child care, and criminal law. He is the author of Capital, Labour and the State (1986) and a contributor to the International Journal of the Sociology of Law, Critical Social Policy, Social Justice, and the Journal of Contemporary Health. His wider research interests include the sociology and politics of law and law-making; the criminal justice system; law and social theory; cosmopolitanism and international law; and human rights.
We are very pleased that Jeremy Colwill has been appointed as Chair of the AchieveAbility Steering Group due to his invested interests and extensive experience.
