ECLO Budapest Conference - Award Winners

ECLO Academic Award for the most ground breaking doctoral / academic contribution

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Jonathan Winterton (FRA)

Jonathan Winterton is Director of Research and International Development and Professor of Human Resource Development at Toulouse Business School. Author of six books including Developing Managerial Competence (Routledge, 1999) he is currently editing Trade Union Strategies for Competence Development also for Routledge. His work on training, employment and social dialogue has contributed to European Commission policy and government initiatives in the UK, Lithuania, Moldova, Turkey and Vietnam. After an engineering apprenticeship, he graduated with first class honours in Industrial Technology from Bradford University in 1976, gained a Masters in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics in 1977 and a doctorate in Economics and Business Studies from Leeds University in 1990. After 18 years on the staff of Bradford University, he was appointed to his first chair in 1997 as Director of the Employment Research Institute in Edinburgh, and joined Toulouse three years later.

ECLO Practitioner Award for the most pioneering case study

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Gabor Kismihok (HUN)

Gabor graduated from Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration (BUESPA) in 2004 as a Master of International Business. Currently he is a PhD student at the Department of Information Systems at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is busy with various EU Research projects in eLearning and in mLearning, dealing with mLMS development, content development, Ontology engineering. Recently he is interested in the relationship between advanced learning environments and Human Resource Management.

 

ECLO Impact Award for the presentation having the greatest personal impact

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Jozefa Fawcett (UK)

Józefa Fawcett is a Learning Specialist and Voicing Talent.  She is Director of OFQT (Organisation for Quality in Training) providing certification, auditing, consultancy to enable organisations to achieve ISO 10015 standards in training.  Józefa’s career spans some 30 years taking her from make-up artist to promotional consultant, sales executive to recruitment consultant and then on to a range of training management roles across the private, public and charity sectors.  A regular International conference speaker since 1997 and part-time lecturer at the University of Westminster and the University of London (UK), she holds an MA in Strategic Human Resource Management.  She has also been awarded Fellowship of the Institute of Training & Occupational Learning (ITOL), Chartered Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM) and Membership of Institute for Leadership & Management (InstLM). Józefa is a member of the ECLO Executive Board and has begun her one-year tenure as ECLO Secretary-General.