Associate Organisations

The Open University (OU) is the United Kingdom’s only university dedicated to distance learning.

www.open.ac.uk/cpd

It promotes educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality university education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and fulfil their potential.

“We have worked very closely with Unitas over the past couple of years on developing and delivering unique online training programmes for their Summer Arts Colleges and TextNow® projects. What has shone through is their professionalism, expertise and commitment to the cause of including young people in mainstream education and society. These shared values have made it a great pleasure to collaborate and work in partnership with Unitas. We are looking forward to further productive cooperation.”
Balvinder Johal, Account Director, Corporate Development, Open University

Inclusive Learning Solutions (ILS) has worked with Unitas since its inception. They write learning resources and design and deliver professional development programmes for practitioners in a wide range of contexts.

“It is very exciting to work with an organisation that has such a strong sense of drive and ambition to genuinely enhance the educational experiences of some of the most disadvantaged and detached young people. The collaboration between ILS and Unitas has provided opportunities for us to work in very innovative and creative ways, which we believe are genuinely cutting edge and pretty challenging (in the best possible way!).”
Sally Brown, Lead Adviser, Inclusive Learning Solutions

Louise Morgan is a programme manager who started her career as a mainstream secondary school teacher in English and Humanities. Her interest in challenging behaviour led her to work in a EBD (emotional and behavioural difficulties) secondary school and a primary pupil referral unit. Louise spent several years working on raising educational achievement for looked after children and careleavers with a particular focus on increasing access to university. She has also worked as a freelance consultant in behaviour and attendance strategies. Louise has spent the last five years working in youth offending again with a focus on access to mainstream services particularly in education. She loves film, video and photography and has also done freelance work on filmmaking projects with or about young people.

Joe Kelly is a freelance illustrator, cartoonist and comics artist whose work has been used in a variety of contexts.

www.joekellyillustration.com
joe@joekellyillustration.com

Using comic book-inspired art, Joe has designed leaflets, posters, comics, t-shirts and storyboards.

“I enjoy the use of character and storytelling in my work and got the opportunity to use these skills when producing the TextNow leaflets and posters for Unitas.”
Joe Kelly

EdComs is a leading communications and research agency working on education and learning projects.

www.edcoms.com/

Since establishment in 1995, the company has built up a reputation as Europe’s leading provider of branded educational resources and associated research insight. Edcoms has been responsible for delivering a number of high profile online education programmes and systems, and looks forward to supporting Unitas in the development of products and services.

“We are delighted to be working in partnership with Unitas to develop a range of innovative online products that will support the delivery of the TextNow programme.”
Phil Clarke, Head of Digital, Edcoms 

Real Educational Research is a research and development consultancy specialising in education and social inclusion.

www.real-er.com/

Real Educational Research conducts research, evaluation and development projects; analyses government policy; designs and delivers training; and writes resources for professionals working in education.

“Collaborating with Unitas is inspiring. Unitas has a fundamental commitment to society’s responsibility to engage in educating every young person, no matter how disaffected s/he is. As a former Head of English and English teacher, I find that TextNow, Unitas’ reading programme, is particularly inspiring. With its core focus on motivation and engagement, TextNow has great potential to develop the reading of young people across the ability range, and therefore to increase young people’s engagement in learning, in subjects across the curriculum.”
Caroline Hudson, Director, Real Educational Research