Dr Ada Adeghe is Associate Dean for Inclusivity, based at the Offices of the Vice Chancellor.  Her current role involves working with colleagues across the university to close all significant attainment gaps, through the adoption of inclusive working practices and nurturing a sense of belonging for all staff and students of the university. 

She is Chair of the BAME Staff Network and Chair of the Race Equality Charter (REC) staff experience group. Ada has a strong and unwavering commitment to widening participation and creating access to education for non-traditional learners and is actively involved in a range of internal and external initiatives to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in higher education. She was also Director for the National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) for Middle/Senior leadership, Headship and Executive headship.

Ada's experience of people management and developing effective team-working is extensive, having worked in senior leadership and management positions in a range of educational settings for over 20 years.   Her  expertise also lies in the areas of Continuing Professional Development for education professionals, Management and Leadership in Education as well as the achievement of excellence in embedded Skills for Life programmes. 

Ada's professional doctorate examined the interconnectedness between Masters level professional learning and the evolving nature of teacher professionalism over the past century and offers useful insights into how today's teachers see themselves as professionals.

She is a member of the University of Wolverhampton's Race Equality Charter (REC) and Athena Swan self-assessment teams.  Ada is a strong advocate for increasing the representation of BAME women in more senior roles in higher education, countering deficit approaches to recruitment and promotion. She also sits as an Academic representative on the University's Board of Governors.

• Inclusive Practices in Higher Education
• Widening access and participation
• Masters level study and teacher professionalism
• Continuing Professional Development for educational professionals
• Approaches to Quality Assurance in further and higher education
• Achieving excellence in embedded Skills for Life Provision

• Member of International Professional Development Asociation
• Member of UCET CPD Committee

• Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD, University of Wolverhampton)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Mentoring, University of Wolverhampton
• Diploma in Educational Management, Sheffield Hallam University                  
• Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), University of Wolverhampton
• M. Phil. West African Studies, University of Birmingham
• M.A. Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• B. A. Dramatic Arts, University of Ife, Nigeria

Publications

• Journals (include web links if applicable)
• Books/Book Chapters (include ISBN numbers)
• Contributor to The Raising Standards Series – A contextual Guide to Support Success in Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL provision (Prison) – DFES 2003
• Adeghe, A. (1995) ‘The Other half of the Story: Nigerian Women Telling Tales’, in Brown, S. (ed.) Orality, Texts and the Telling of Tales, Birmingham University African Studies Series No. 4
• Practitioner Publications and Reports

Conference Presentations

Oral presentations/seminars/workshops

• 2013, Developing Masterly Practice – HEIs and Schools working in Partnership workshop presented at the International Professional Development conference, Aston, Birmingham.
• 2010, Working with Local Authorities to progress master’s level CPD, paper presented at the ATEE conference in Budapest, August, 2010
• 2007, Equality and Diversity in Teacher Education, Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) conference in Telford, UK, August 2007.
• 2007, Professional Challenges in Curricular Development for a European Leadership Programme, paper presented at the International Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) Slovenia, January, 2007
• 2006, Cooperation, Collaboration and the Trials and Tribulations of Tripartite relationships – A case study of the Skills For Life Leadership and Management Programme, Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) conference in Slovenia October, 2006
• 2005, Leading and Managing Change and Quality Improvements in Skills For Life: Evaluation of leadership and management programme.  Paper presented at ATEE Conference in Amsterdam, October 2005.

• Associate Dean, Inclusivity
• Head of CPD, University of Wolverhampton
• Head of Academic, workforce and Business Development, University of Wolverhampton
• Principal Lecturer, Partnership Co-ordinator, University of Wolverhampton
• Senior Lecturer, PCE/CPD, University of Wolverhampton        
• Head of Open & Flexible Learning, Dudley College of Technology 
• Basic Skills Manager