Ann Shreeve is a visiting fellow in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning and works independently in the field of children’s services and in promoting the use of research and evidence. Her current research focus is children’s services in England, in particular inter-agency governance, joint commissioning, resource management and inter-agency partnership working. She was research manager for the National Evaluation of Children’s Trusts from 2005-2007. She worked on an EPPI literature review of Initial Teacher Education. She was a research coordinator for the School-based Research Consortium project funded by the Teacher Training Agency that focused on secondary aged students in six Norwich schools who were disaffected from learning. She has also published on managing small group learning in classrooms.

She taught in 8-12 middle schools, in the UK specialising in language and literacy. As a teacher adviser with responsibility for co-ordinating the Norfolk Oracy Project she pioneered collaborative approaches to teaching and learning. Later she had a major role in Norfolk local education authority introducing the national curriculum and assessment. She has extensive experience of providing continuing professional development courses for teachers. She has inspected a large number of primary schools and has led school inspections and also been a member of about twenty-five inspection teams as an additional inspector for the local education division and post compulsory education division of Ofsted.

During her career she has been involved in teacher networks that shared good practice and has worked with practitioners to innovate approaches to teaching and learning through action research. She was active in the National Association for the Teaching of English at a local level in Norfolk and nationally as publications director and journal editor. She has worked with several governmental bodies including QCA, OFSTED, BECTa and others; and the Publishers Association on matters related to the teaching of English.

Posts held

Research Manager, National Evaluation of Children’s Trust Pathfinders, University of East Anglia, full-time, fixed term, June 2005 – April 2007

Additional Inspector Post Compulsory Education Division, OFSTED, fixed-term contracts, September 2003- February 2005

Associate Research Officer, Centre for Using Research and Evidence in Education, on-demand, May 2002 – June 2005

Additional Inspector Local Education Authority Division, OFSTED, fixed-term contracts, July 2000 – June 2004

Senior Research Assistant, University of East Anglia, short-term and part-time contracts, June 2002 – June 2005

Publications Director, National Association for the Teaching of English, voluntary and part-time, March 1997 - February 2000

International Conference Organiser, National Association for the Teaching of English, part-time, July 1998 - August 1999

OFSTED Registered Inspector and Team Inspector, Independent Consultant, fixed-term contracts, April 1996 - December 1998

Freelance editor, Independent Consultant, short-term contract, April 1996 - December 1998

Advisory Teacher Educational Information, Norfolk County Council Education Department: Inspection, Advice and Training Services, full-time, January 1993 - March 1996

Project Director: Norfolk National Curriculum Team, Norfolk County Council Education Department: Inspection, Advice and Training Services, full time, April 1989 - December 1992

Teacher Adviser: Primary English and Co-ordinator: Norfolk Oracy Project, Norfolk County Council Education Department: Inspection, Advice and Training Services, full-time, January 1987 - March 1989

Teacher Scale 2: Language Development, Lakenham Middle School (age range 8-12), Norwich, full-time, September 1981 - December 1986

Teacher Scale 1, Lakenham Middle School (age range 8-12), Norwich, full-time, September 1975 - August 1981