Founding Director

Martin Skelton is one of the two co-founders of Fieldwork Education. His education experience includes more than twenty years as a teacher and the headship of two primary schools. He has a Masters degree in Organisation and Management from the University of Sussex and lectures on Oxford Brookes University's International Education Masters programme.

Martin also directs the school improvement planning programme for a group of schools in Saudi Arabia as well as working closely with schools in South Africa, Dubai, The Netherlands, Sweden, Oman, the United States and elsewhere. He has written widely about education, most often about management issues including curriculum development, improvement planning and policy production. For the past five years he has been immersed in the results about brain research, has written about its implications for teachers and is currently preparing a book about 'brain-friendly' school management.