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Our Staff

Meet our team at Bristol Adult Learning.

Management Team

The Adult and Community Learning Manager and Team Leader lead on key strategies, service delivery and projects.  They are supported by course Development Workers, Business Support staff.

Angela Marshall
Adult and Community Learning Manager


Jenny Wilkes
Team Leader – Adult Learning


Development Workers

Veronique Bontemps

Veronique is the curriculum lead and course organiser for Arts, Crafts, Health and Wellbeing, Film Studies, Sewing and Textiles


Marlis Mulder

Marlis is the curriculum lead and course organiser for Languages, ICT, Cookery, Gardening, History and General Interest


Administrative Officers

Maria Chidgey
Business Support Assistant


Sam Spears
Business Support Officer


Abi Reeve
Learning Centre Assistant


Lecturers, Tutors and Facilitators

Bristol Adult Learning lecturers, tutors and facilitators by department.

Art

Sheila Broun
Drawing Techniques


Barbara Disney
Printmaking


Laurel Smart
Painting – Watercolour and Acrylic


Isobel Morris
Pottery, Sculpture, Soapstone Carving, Pastels Creative 


Roma Widger
Painting, Drawing and Printmaking


Mary Kelly
Painting in acrylic, watercolour, mixed media, making hand made paper and sculpture


Matthew Heyse-Moore
Music


Frances Gale
Landscape painting and drawing


Ioanna Papageorgiou
Fine Arts and Art Sciences


Bill Guilding
Art and Drawing


Annelies Egli
Textiles


Art History

Sarah Kelly
Art History


Samantha Forrest
Art, Art History, Literature and Creative Teaching


Bridge

Lorna Watson
Bridge


British and American History

Russell Walker
American History


John Stevens
History


Richard Stride
History


Computers & Digital Technologies

Lorna Watson
IT


Lisa Malyon
Introduction to Social Media for Business, Hobbies and Leisure Purposes, Artist and Creative Coach


Cookery & Wine Appreciation

Ian Abrahams
Wine Appreciation


Karen Lawrence
Cookery


Crafts

Nicola Hamilton
Upholstery


Lorraine Joseph
Dressmaking & Textiles


Debby Bird
Textiles, Embroidery, Knitting, Crochet and Felt Making


Ann HuntleyAnn Huntley
Sewing


Marilyn Mitchelmore
Sewing


Family History

Rosemary Caldicott
Family History Research


Film Studies


Gardening

Jason Loh
Japanese Garden Design


Christine Pritchard
Gardening and Garden Design


Health, Fitness & Wellbeing

Saara Tatjana Nelson
Dance Movement Psychotherapist


Nen Crosby
Tai chi and Qi gong (gentle exercise)


Jackie Hawken
Mindfulness, Masters in Clinical Psychology, CBT, NLP


Language

Stefanie Weller
German


Rachele Pifferetti
Italian


Mariví O’Leary

Spanish


Luz Marina Lecomte
Spanish


Laura Geraci
Italian Language and Culture


Julián Segura
Spanish


Eve Bechmann-Johnson
French and Bilingualism


Enza Grauso
Italian


Elise
French


Christel Stoecker-Danby
German


Caroline Davenport
Spanish


Ana Belen Abril Andreu
Spanish


Gorka Diaz
Spanish


Maths

Eric Smith
Maths


Philosphy


Willow Craft

Sarah Edwards
Willow Sculpture