AUTUMN
LECTURE
2008
Tim
Dartington
Isabel
Menzies
Lyth
and
the
Art
of
the
Possible
1st October
at
7:00pm
See
Events
Patron - Fred Edwards
Frederick Edward Edwards (Fred) is a full time voluntary worker, widely involved in a range of organizations involving ecological and conservation issues, environmental justice and social justice matters. He has post-graduate qualifications in ecology, global development and social work. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a member of the Institute of Ecology and a Chartered Environmentalist. He is a Board member of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, a Trustee of New Lanark World Heritage Centre and is involved in the governance of a number of other NGOs and Trusts. These include Friends of the Earth Scotland and Scottish Environment LINK, of which he is President. Fred is a former President of Volunteer Development Scotland.
Following ten years as an officer in the Royal and Merchant Navies and a period in industry as a management trainee, he then joined the Probation Service (1960). He was a director of social work in Scotland for 24 years (from 1969) including service in the Joint Councils of Moray & Nairn, Grampian and Strathclyde.
He has held a wide variety of advisory posts in both the statutory and voluntary sectors. He has also been a member of several government working parties including health, criminal justice and demographic changes. He has been visiting Professor of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Glasgow and was an Honorary Fellow of the Divinity Faculty of Edinburgh University for six years. He was on the executive and policy committees of the Centre for Theology and Public issues in that Faculty for ten years.
Fred was made a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 1992 and has been awarded honorary degrees by the Open University and Paisley University.